[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Confirmed. No need for anyone to go and post their own link to it from their site ;)

http://wrc.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=101...er%20announced

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and why not? - be a bit narrow minded it we all took our news from one source, especially when wrc.com it run by ISC! ;)

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Originally Posted by wrc_flipper

and why not? - be a bit narrow minded it we all took our news from one source, especially when wrc.com it run by ISC! ;)

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Because the news is confirmed on the WRC site. What else is there to say about it? What would another site add? A slight rewording of the same thing perhaps? Maybe some promotion of your site? :D Seriously, add something and your site becomes something useful and not the slower than the big sites reguritation fest that it currently is :)

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Originally Posted by wrc_flipper

The governing body of world motorsport, the FIA, has signed a long term agreement with North One Television and its subsidiary International Sportsworld Communicators (ISC) to promote the World Rally Championship.

Details on www.rallybuzz.com soon!

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Oh dear, that means not to promote it. Saying that - there isn't much to promote. Where Eurosport Events one of the competitors?
I may be harsh, but they've hardly covered themselves in glory up to now - no matter how they may protest. If they want to promote it properly - eapecially here in UK - it needs to be on terrestrial TV (ITV, BBC2), not a repeat channel, even if it means paying the channel concerned.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Because the news is confirmed on the WRC site. What else is there to say about it? What would another site add? A slight rewording of the same thing perhaps? Maybe some promotion of your site? :D

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Also confirmed via a FIA press releases this morning. And you can't beat a bit of free publicity :)

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Originally Posted by AndyRAC

Oh dear, that means not to promote it. Saying that - there isn't much to promote. Where Eurosport Events one of the competitors?
I may be harsh, but they've hardly covered themselves in glory up to now - no matter how they may protest. If they want to promote it properly - eapecially here in UK - it needs to be on terrestrial TV (ITV, BBC2), not a repeat channel, even if it means paying the channel concerned.

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Rather. But the ISC will want to make a lot of money out of the WRC before spending money on making the coverage. They don't realise that it's a catch 22 situation and they have to spend money to make money rather than make money to spend money :mark: But whatever, wtf? wth? The WRC is officially boned unless the ISC miraculously do a U-turn and fire Paul King and the rest of the crew.

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Originally Posted by wrc_flipper

And you can't beat a bit of free publicity :)

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You can when it's against forum rules :)

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Originally Posted by Daniel

You can when it's against forum rules :)

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sorry, should of added "in my opinion" :cool:

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Rather. But the ISC will want to make a lot of money out of the WRC before spending money on making the coverage. They don't realise that it's a catch 22 situation and they have to spend money to make money rather than make money to spend money :mark: But whatever, wtf? wth? The WRC is officially boned unless the ISC miraculously do a U-turn and fire Paul King and the rest of the crew.

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How do you make money out of a 'dead-duck' Championship? Are we missing something? Even more bizarre, Stobart are actually happy at the coverage they get out of being in the WRC.

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Originally Posted by AndyRAC

How do you make money out of a 'dead-duck' Championship? Are we missing something? Even more bizarre, Stobart are actually happy at the coverage they get out of being in the WRC.

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Rather. Well perhaps it wouldn't be so dead if the ISC had given us proper coverage. I think the WRC could have survived crap regs or crap coverage but not both.

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Originally Posted by AndyRAC

How do you make money out of a 'dead-duck' Championship? Are we missing something? Even more bizarre, Stobart are actually happy at the coverage they get out of being in the WRC.

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Stobart should be happy with the coverage, on Dave they get an hour plus of adverts every week with the Mathew Wilson show - sorry WRC access all areas.