TV ratings rise for WRC

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5th March 2007, 19:16
General Prim

Many people still believe those figures from ISC....I prefer to believe in Santa Claus
5th March 2007, 20:26
Lousada

So the amount of hours coverage increased three times as much as the amount of viewers. So on average they only got worse the past 5 years. I wonder how they'll spin it next year now in some countries like the UK and Finland the broadcasting channels changed.
6th March 2007, 00:24
jso1985

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Originally Posted by Sladden

Hehe that is one way of giving the impression that WRC is better than ever.. bla bla bla!!
Why dont they start agnowledge there is a problem within this sport istead of making a great fasade of tv rating numbers?

maybe is some sort of "proof" that the current WRC is liked by a lot of people? so it technically doesn't need to be changed(although IMO it does need some changing)

Now at least for LatinAmerica coverage has improved, ESPN does a wonderful job and we get to see the daily recaps the same day the rally happened, way better than AXN showing the rally recap 2 weeks later :up:

But agree the quaility of what's shown is very poor :down: why do they think I actually want to see Hirvonen's face instead of some good in-car footage that shows the road?
6th March 2007, 02:06
RallyCat909

Im happy with the WRC downloads Im finding. I can just burn it and watch on the big screen with no ads. woot
6th March 2007, 03:41
klm-607

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Originally Posted by L5->R5/CR

Guess you haven't heard.

RaceCentralTV has acquired the rights to the WRC in the US.

They will begin their coverage with Mexico, but it will likely take more than the week of lead in time they have to get their full distribution network and content pacakge together, but they will have something for Mexico and all the rest of the events.

Never heard of "RaceCentralTV"... I know it's not on my DirectTV package menu. Is it a mainly regional thing?? I'm in upstate N.Y. between Elmira & Binghamton
(One of the most economically, & culturally depressed areas of good ol' USA)
6th March 2007, 05:27
L5->R5/CR

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Originally Posted by klm-607

Never heard of "RaceCentralTV"... I know it's not on my DirectTV package menu. Is it a mainly regional thing?? I'm in upstate N.Y. between Elmira & Binghamton
(One of the most economically, & culturally depressed areas of good ol' USA)

Give it time. As far as I know the rights were just secured last week, possibly late last week. It should end up available on most if not all the regional sports channels.
6th March 2007, 10:20
WRC2006

I will never believe on those figures.

Last week, the Daily Telegraph (If I am not mistaken) revealed that the figures from TV Audience in F1 was overestimated. The real figures was really a 1/10 of the figures they were publishing as official ones.

I am wondering the same thing in WRC. If this can happen in F1, no wonder in WRC it is a pure lies then.
6th March 2007, 10:29
WRC2006

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Originally Posted by klm-607

.....in Asia (ESPN Star Sports), Latin America (ESPN), the Middle East (Al Jazeera), Africa (Supersport) and Europe (Eurosport). Most significantly most of these agreements are multi-year contracts which underpin the future success of the WRC TV programming and provide an excellent base from which to grow the sport and develop the WRC brand on a global basis........

E.A.
Source WRC

In Africa it is on PAY TV. And it is really expensive to get the package with motorsport (WRC). Do you know how many people are really capable to buy this package? Very few.
6th March 2007, 11:14
SubaruNorway

The tv broadcast from Rally Norway made by NRK had about 500,000 during the weekend and 600,000 on the opening seremoni and was the most viewed sports programes that weekend and we are about 4-5milion people in Norway so thats pretty god and the broadcast from the norwegian championship has had around 300,000 this winter but not more than 50,000 in earlier years.
http://www.rallynorway.no/no/nyheter/nrk_seertall.html

F1 is on pay-tv and i don't think it has more than 100,000 but Iskald has some more info on that i think.
6th March 2007, 11:34
Karukera

Indeed, hard to believe the audience has actually increased. In my part of the world, i'm capturing for free some ISC food through TF1, W9, M6 + pay Eurosport.

Better to have even poor WRC footage between the ads than nothing, though.

Am generally not nostalgic but on "Tour de Chauffe" from Monte Carlo TV, you could see back in late 90's Mäkinen, Auriol, Sainz, etc... on a TV show during one hour or so.

There was a WRC TV life before ISC acquired the rights !
Allowing competition between TVs would certainly increase quality and audience. At least it should be better than the current communist like monopoly. :bandit:

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Originally Posted by klm-607

I'm in upstate N.Y. between Elmira & Binghamton
(One of the most economically, & culturally depressed areas of good ol' USA)

Off topic : I went to Binghamton NY (2 Chambers St, 13903) a few years ago for a Mc IntoshAudio labs tour. Extraordinary memories. It didn't look like it was a depressed area. Maybe they drove us on optimistic roads.

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