I thought there was a CART race yesterday??

I watched it on ESPN right after the NASCAR Race from the Glen. -- Sean Higgins "HigPup" "Hollywood" for R6 "Hollywood__NWO" for ZONE http://home.sprintmail.com/~higgy/hsts2/ HSTS, Powered by ATI Rage 128 http://home.sprintmail.com/~higgy/ http://www.colormation.com Colormation (sponsor of H.O. Motorsports) http://www.atitech.ca ATI Technologies no live coverage on the major

Was there? I didnt see anything on ABC.

Why didnt they show it on ABC instead? All my station showed was ***movies like "Captain America"

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> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:16:40 -0400, > >Was there? I didnt see anything on ABC. > espn > -- > * rrevved at mindspring dot com

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:16:40 -0400, espn -- * rrevved at mindspring dot com

ESPN.......

The PGA Championship was on CBS, sponsors won't stick to NBC when there's such a thing on another of the big 3. So they sell the race to ESPN (even if they are the same company), which them attract their own commercials. Because on ABC you had such incredible stuff like TaeBo and the little guy who's hyperactive and selling kitchen accessories (can't remember his name. agh!). -- -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

There was indeed. We had the "delayed telecast" down here last night. I think it was Mid-Ohio(?)

And as they do many times, even if the race was ON ABC, you still may have seen Tae Bo and utensil infomercials. At least it doesn't get pre-empted on ESPN. The local ABC affiliate dumped the Toronto race, which was extremely aggravating since it was also an off weekend for NASCAR. So here I am on a Sunday afternoon with NO racing. ARRGGGGGH. If the idiots would think that at least some of the NASCAR fans would've tuned into the CART race that weekend for a "fix", they would've realized they'd get better ratings than some Ron Popeil sales extravaganza :-) -- Ken's Sig 3.0 "Who is the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?" - Obi-Wan Kenobi Go #43 and #44! volksy (at) geocities (dot) com volksy (at) yahoo (dot) com >> Why didnt they show it on ABC instead? All my station showed was *** >movies >> like "Captain America" >The PGA Championship was on CBS, sponsors won't stick to NBC when there's >such a thing on another of the big 3. So they sell the race to ESPN (even >if they are the same company), which them attract their own commercials. >Because on ABC you had such incredible stuff like TaeBo and the little guy >who's hyperactive and selling kitchen accessories (can't remember his name. >agh!). >-- >-- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> >-- May the Downforce be with you... >"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise >how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

Hey, at least you got something! Eurosport elected to show Spanish football instead of CART! -- Cheers! Graeme Nash http://www.karisma1.demon.co.uk ICQ# 11257824

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>There was indeed. We had the "delayed telecast" down here last night. I >think it was Mid-Ohio(?) >> Was there? I didnt see anything on ABC.

Looks like CART is indeed doing badly - no live coverage on the major US networks, no live coverage in Australia, and, last but not least important (at least for me), no live coverage in Europe either. For some unknown reason, Eurosport only had a condensed broadcast the next day. (They *say* it has something to do with covering live more popular events, such as matches in the Spanish football league <sigh>, but if that be the case, why do they broadcast old stuff while the race is going on?) And it was such a fascinating race! Isn't that Juan Montoya just crazy? (BTW, the American pronunciation of his first name still puzzles me. I always hear "One Montoya leads the race" and ask myself "are there several Montoyas in the race?" :) What does CART management do wrong? With such a great 'product', it should be easy to find 'customers'. Look at F1 - the races are quite boring unless Hakkinen or Schumacher has to come back from the end of the field. And yet, it's immensely popular. The CART formula is so much more entertaining: 'full course yellow' and a pretty even field of cars keep the races interesting, there's a lot of overtaking, the cars don't break as easily. Yet nobody seems to be interested. Why? -- Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome.

Cart was live on ESPN and to me they do a better job then ABC does. -- Jeff Murchison JR HTTP://members.tripod.com/grandprixlegends > >There was indeed. We had the "delayed telecast" down here last night. I > >think it was Mid-Ohio(?) > >> Was there? I didnt see anything on ABC. > Looks like CART is indeed doing badly - no live coverage on the major > US networks, no live coverage in Australia, and, last but not least > important (at least for me), no live coverage in Europe either. For > some unknown reason, Eurosport only had a condensed broadcast the next > day. (They *say* it has something to do with covering live more > popular events, such as matches in the Spanish football league <sigh>, > but if that be the case, why do they broadcast old stuff while the > race is going on?) > And it was such a fascinating race! Isn't that Juan Montoya just > crazy? (BTW, the American pronunciation of his first name still > puzzles me. I always hear "One Montoya leads the race" and ask myself > "are there several Montoyas in the race?" :) > What does CART management do wrong? With such a great 'product', it > should be easy to find 'customers'. Look at F1 - the races are quite > boring unless Hakkinen or Schumacher has to come back from the end of > the field. And yet, it's immensely popular. The CART formula is so > much more entertaining: 'full course yellow' and a pretty even field > of cars keep the races interesting, there's a lot of overtaking, the > cars don't break as easily. Yet nobody seems to be interested. Why? > -- > Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome. cancellation warned.

Wofgang, we have never had CART broadcast live except for the Surfers Paradise race. They (the local network) telecast it late at night and again on the following saturday afternoon.

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> >There was indeed. We had the "delayed telecast" down here last night. I > >think it was Mid-Ohio(?) > >> Was there? I didnt see anything on ABC. > Looks like CART is indeed doing badly - no live coverage on the major > US networks, no live coverage in Australia, and, last but not least > important (at least for me), no live coverage in Europe either. For > some unknown reason, Eurosport only had a condensed broadcast the next > day. (They *say* it has something to do with covering live more > popular events, such as matches in the Spanish football league <sigh>, > but if that be the case, why do they broadcast old stuff while the > race is going on?) > And it was such a fascinating race! Isn't that Juan Montoya just > crazy? (BTW, the American pronunciation of his first name still > puzzles me. I always hear "One Montoya leads the race" and ask myself > "are there several Montoyas in the race?" :) > What does CART management do wrong? With such a great 'product', it > should be easy to find 'customers'. Look at F1 - the races are quite > boring unless Hakkinen or Schumacher has to come back from the end of > the field. And yet, it's immensely popular. The CART formula is so > much more entertaining: 'full course yellow' and a pretty even field > of cars keep the races interesting, there's a lot of overtaking, the > cars don't break as easily. Yet nobody seems to be interested. Why? > -- > Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome.

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