Ourand SBJ just tweeted 194k viewers. Iowa was 254k views which translated to .18.
Sigh
Ourand SBJ just tweeted 194k viewers. Iowa was 254k views which translated to .18.
Sigh
I'd rather have 10% of the world interested in the ICS than 50% of US that NASCAR currently has
The only way to go from here is up!
Oh well, it is what it is.
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How?Originally Posted by catchme@241
The reality is the numbers are dropping yet you call the deal 'ahead of its time'. The only end result that can be drerived from that is the series will be broke 'ahead of its time'.
Here come three pages of excuses detailing what else was airing at the same time.
In all honesty in getting ready to go the NASCAR at Chicagoland I basically forgot completely there was a race at Edmonton, saw absolutely no advertising for it, mainly since I don't watch anything else on NBC Sports. Taped it and haven't gotten around to watching it yet.
Saw two newspapers on Friday and Saturday that had nothing about it and there was a single sentence on Sunday that Helio won the pole. Edmonton more than any other North American race is invisible, maybe not as much as Japan. I would think it might be that so few racing media travel there and they don't have any other major motorsports that travel there, and there aren't any local media that are parts of syndicates to send stories out.
"You can't arrest those guys, they're folk heroes"
"They're criminals"
"Well most folk heroes started out as criminals"
That's very disheartening.
Ricky
We need to talk more positively about the series.
It's all the fans fault!
It shouldn't be. It's more of the same, so it's hard to be disapponted anymore.That's very disheartening.
Ricky
It's all the fans fault!
It's the LACK of fans that is at fault.
.....right off of your head
So, I'm guessing that, 194k viewers should = a......... 0.16?
Ricky
The racing is great but the business end - it's really hard to take the H/G family serious any longer.
Just as a point of comparison; the Nationwide race Sunday, per Jayski, got a 1.9 / 2.8m viewers, up 57% over last year.
Ricky
Pathetic. Just pathetic.
Did we give up when the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Btw that's an Animal House movie reference for those who are completely movie/Hollywood adverse
The series has gotten it's fair shake on network for a decade - typical numbers are .7 to 1.0. Buying network time doesn't help the series, it just isn't popular. Blaming the HG family is misguided, IMO.
...the spice must flow.....
Yeah, but it feels good to a lot of people around here. It's quite a crutch.
Cancer sucks.
Not suprising... that week break after Toronto is a killer.
As far as media goes, the PSU stuff sucked up all the air in the room over the weekend.
I wasn't interested enough to note the time the IndyCar race started Sunday, but I did realize what time the Nationwide race started because I was interested enough to already know Hornish qualified up front.
I went to my internet source to see if any European outlet was televising the Nationwide race - no luck. But I did see once more Sky broadcasting the IndyCar race.
So I just went to nascar.com and watched the Nationwide race on Race Buddy; poor underpowered Nationwide cars looked like snails going around Chicagoland.
Since I have absolutely no interest in watching yet another street course event running cars that are called "Indy cars", I never checked-in with any source to find out how that deal went.
I've asked TSN to see if they can give me the viewership for Sunday in Canada as well. Might make it a little more relevant as the race is in Canada.
Who owns the series?
What are the numbers for the series from 1996 until now?
You show me one consistent line moving upward in terms of revenue (made - not based on cuts), TV ratings or attendance and I will remove blame from the people that OWN it.
Fact is if this were a public company it would have tanked years ago based on loss of $$$ and mismanagement.
Yeah - I know it's private (family owned) but it only survived by spending millions for no ROI in return so I am sure we all get the point.
Yes, we do. And we really need to move on.
Well, Marty Snyder did tell Bryan Herta at Edmonton that "nobody is watching anyway".
He wasn't kidding.
Prime Minister of Gackland
.Since I have absolutely no interest in watching yet another street course event running cars that are called "Indy cars", I never checked-in with any source to find out how that deal went
Missed a good race din't ya.
new sig pending
This is another reason I think RB will pack it up in October.
Is there anything that is not what it is?
"The IRL's future should be good, but it can't be the grass-roots series Tony George envisioned. That was a wet dream." - Bobby Unser
Running on Sunday night probably helped.Just as a point of comparison; the Nationwide race Sunday, per Jayski, got a 1.9 / 2.8m viewers, up 57% over last year.
Ricky
Last year's race, which was run on a Saturday night, earned a 1.4 household coverage rating.
It's a Hoosier thing, you wouldn't understand...
For comparison's sake, some ratings from the 2009 Indycar Season
Homestead 0.15
Kentucky 0.14
Kansas 0.15
But the ratings for Edmonton are Randy's fault?
With these rating numbers, the biggest risk, IMHO, is that when NBC management gets "serious" about making NBCSN a competitive sports channel, the Indycar series will be a casualty of their new direction.
By now the NBC managers are realising that if they broadcast a live picture of a goldfish bowl for a couple of hours they'll get more TV sets tuned in than Indycar gets. Millions of cat owners will tune in if they're leaving their cats alone for an hour or two and want to entertain them. In the winter a video feed of a burning log fire would rate higher than Indycar. Hell, a broadcast of the Chaska Fire Annual Ice Fishing Contest stands a real chance of out drawing Indycar at this point in time.
I suspect thaat NBC is soon gonna say "We'll buy-out the current contract to free the airtime for other shows .... bye-bye Indycar, and don't let the door hit you as you leave ...."
You should be glad they do own it. Some other series pizzed away 150 million of IPO money and went bankrupt.......then the same group tried again with a new name - same outcome.
Without the HG family, there would only be F1 for any of us. [without getting into the whole ''what if TG was never born'' nonsense]
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