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Extreme POOR TV coverege
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#1 
05-25-2008 03:13 PM |
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 Extreme POOR TV coverege More Commercials then racing ....very sad...turned it off and the radio on 
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#2
05-25-2008 03:55 PM |
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re: Extreme POOR TV coverege Quote: Originally Posted by Ray Merli More Commercials then racing ....very sad...turned it off and the radio on Be glad that have coverage. I live 15 minutes from the track and can hear the cars but IMS has blacked out the coverage on our local tv station.
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#3
05-25-2008 04:05 PM |
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POOR coverage You're coverage SUCKS!!!!! Reminds me of the Olympics a few years back. Who wants to see all the commercials and FLUFF? I want to see the race, NOT the stinking commercials!!!! What are you thinking????? I know, you WERE'NT!
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#4
05-25-2008 04:39 PM |
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Poor coverage Bad, bad, bad --- a really good race tainted by way to many commercials.
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#5
05-25-2008 05:01 PM |
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2008 INDY 500 TV COVEREGE DID YOU ALL NOT SEE THE SPLIT SCREEN THEY WERE SHOWING DURING THE COMMERCIALS SO WE DID NOT MISS THE RACE DURING THE COMMERCIALS THEY DID NOT HAVE AUDIO DURING THE COMMERCIALS OF THE RACE BUT IT WAS NOT HARD TO FOLLOW THE RACE DURING THE COMMERCIALS BRAKES I THOUGHT THE TV COVERAGE THIS YEAR WAS AS GOOD IF NOT BETTER THEN PAST YEARS
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#6
05-25-2008 05:03 PM |
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Worst racing coverage ever That has to be the worst coverage of a race ever. ABC needs to quit whoring itself out to advertisers and actually show just a little of the race. How can you break for a commercial with 18 laps of live racing to go, come on. Indy Racing needs to find a network willing to actually cover the race, no wonder NASCAR is twice as big.
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#7
05-25-2008 06:08 PM |
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The thrill of victory. . the agony of defeat ? Didn't see it here thanks to ABC/ESPN's terrible coverage. With 1/3 of the race run under the yellow, 1/3 commercials, and most of the remaining 1/3 on a split screen so that more commercials could be aired, I saw very little racing. Not to mention the endless stream of useless graphics and statistics that are always on screen that serve no real purpose. Gee, I'm so glad I bought a big screen TV only to have the picture reduced to the model I had 10 years ago thanks to all the graphics, pop-ups, and logos. Despite all these technical innovations and marvels and the poor commentators, I found that most of the race I was confused due to the incessant interruptions. A thoroughly UNenjoyable event - next year will only turn in for the last 15 laps - might as well.
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#8
05-25-2008 06:10 PM |
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The thrill of victory. . the agony of defeat ? Didn't see it here thanks to ABC/ESPN's terrible coverage. With 1/3 of the race run under the yellow, 1/3 commercials, and most of the remaining 1/3 on a split screen so that more commercials could be aired, I saw very little racing. Not to mention the endless stream of useless graphics and statistics that are always on screen that serve no real purpose. Gee, I'm so glad I bought a big screen TV only to have the picture reduced to the model I had 10 years ago thanks to all the graphics, pop-ups, and logos. Despite all these technical innovations and marvels and the poor commentators, I found that most of the race I was confused due to the incessant interruptions. A thoroughly UNenjoyable event - next year will only turn in for the last 15 laps - might as well.
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#9
05-26-2008 02:29 AM |
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Aww quit your bitchin Try watching the race on AFN... every time ABC went to the split screen, we went to AFN commercials so we didn't see any of that. You want to see a commercial fest, then try NASCAR. I thought that the coverage was very good and lots of nice inserted stories. By the way, I don't think I would have wanted to be on the other end of the butt chewing that ABC showed AJ Foyt giving someone. I could read his lips!
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#10
05-26-2008 04:59 AM |
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I have an idea... I certainly hope that Tony G. and the suits at IMS really do read these comments and do something about what ABC/ESPN did to make a great race a deplorable broadcast. I will grant that advertising is the bread and butter of broadcast TV and that providing "side-by-side" most of the time during the commercial breaks did allow for us fans to see "more" of the race than in previous years. They even broke out of the commercial break once or twice when something happened (crashes). That having been said, I still found myself getting more and more frustrated with even the side-by-side breaks. They became overly long, showing not just 2 (maybe 3 at the most) different commercials. NO! They had to punch out 4, 5, even 6 commercials each time. Then as the build up of three hours of racing start to come to a head, they actually stuffed down our throats two of these insufferably long breaks during the last 30 laps. What ever happened to showing the last 25-30 laps uninterrupted? Please, we fans would like to know. In my post race mental frame of mind, I thought about how bad the broadcast was and what would have made it better. Of course a commercial free broadcast would be best, but we all know THAT won't happen. The trouble with broadcasting a racing event is that it is absolutely nothing like any other sporting event. Unlike baseball, football, basketball, and a plethora of other sports, racing does not have a "time out" or a "pause" in the action. There are yellow flag periods, but as we saw today, even under yellow flags the drama of the race plays itself out continuously without stopping for "a word from our sponsors". There was the fire on AJ Foyt IV's car, the Briscoe "I can't stay between the lines" mishap which was closely followed by the "March of the Pissed Off Lady Driver" show. Here is my suggestion. With the technology we have today, why not have the sponsors buy blocks of 2 or 3 lap segments. Then while those particular lap segments are occurring, scroll a semi-transparent banner across the bottom of the screen with any logo and text the sponsor wishes to display. They do this with the top for the current positions of the racers. On just about any sports broadcast they also display current sports facts/updates along the bottom of the screen. Use this space for advertising during broadcasts that do not have convenient break points for actual commercials. Doing something like this will not only be great for the fans because we'd then get 100% of the action without interruption, but it would be great for the broadcasters as well. The broadcast companies could then sell 100% of the schedule time instead of chunks of time per hour. It’s a win-win for everyone.
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