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8th March 2024, 21:11 #181
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This is up to the WRC Promoter adjust the price tag for what it offers to broadcasters. On the other side, Broadcasters weights the budget they can gather from advertisers and take their choices.
Now: if WRC Promoter discounts the highlights, more free to air (FTA) broadcasters would be interested in getting those highlights, since they can return on their investments and offer new contents to their viewers based on their target audience.
RAI (Italian BBC) and private SportItalia respectively ditched WRC and WRX once those rights became too expensive for their budgets. Those two networks had a combined audience of almost 700k viewers and about 4% share. Which for a "minor" sport like WRC would be gold now!
It would be very useful, for next 2025 season, to arrange those contracts in a way they will be able to freely distribute 8-10 minutes videos on official WRC YouTube channel.
Time for the WRC Promoter to take bold decisions eventually.
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8th March 2024, 22:27 #182
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https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/rally seems to be up to date.
I'm willing to bet the EBU has a finger in it. Whatever, the point is the promotor doesn't see need to change, there's no lack of ability or desire that they don't change anything. I don't doubt YouTube could grow the eyeballs but it's 19 years old, the disruptive days are long gone. if there was to be a flip point for wrc it would have happened by now."It's not sport!" - Gilles Panizzi
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9th March 2024, 15:24 #183
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9th March 2024, 19:37 #184
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Both were above their daily average ratings on the same timeslots.
RAI, for example, during Rally Sardinia got 200k more viewers (in a channel that gets about 400k on average) on all stages broadcasted, Sunday's Powerstage included (competing with Serie A's football match for the Asian markets at 12.30 CET!!).
It's all about price, not ratings for sure. At least in Italy, elsewhere I don't know.
But again, if you got cheaper rights that can cope with those ratings, you're good to go and you get a profit for it. It's not rocket science.
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16th March 2024, 13:33 #185
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https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/n...orms/10587844/
So, the brains trust of the FIA thought it would be a good idea to have a bunch of old men who are disconnected to the sport come up with new regulations without consultation with actual stakeholders?
And they're possibly going to push teams out?
Well, isn't this just perfectly symbolic for this total disaster of an FIA administration.....
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16th March 2024, 14:37 #186
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16th March 2024, 15:20 #187
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The WRC Commission is not the Working Group.
"It's not sport!" - Gilles Panizzi
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16th March 2024, 17:06 #188
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17th March 2024, 10:53 #189
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I have a feeling the Solbergs were there pushing for the WRC Kit for Rally2.
Or who else?"It's not sport!" - Gilles Panizzi
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17th March 2024, 12:43 #190
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