NASCAR on NASN-Sky-FOX etc.

Not trying to push my way in on this but im as frustrated as you guys, spoke to sky sports viewer relations to express my feelings to the powers that be , i said do you guys not respond to our feedback and how do we know the right people are getting our emails.Have you seen the Nascar fans thoughts on your coverage and how important the pre and post race shows are on the forums . They had no plans to show the pre race and post race shows as they didnt have the rights to show it , i assume because they didnt buy it , they didnt think that after the deal was done they could change it .
My thoughts are
1) would Nascar sell the coverage to sky without it because if they did wtf.
if they want the sport to grow around the world they must know how important it is , so i say i dont buy that and i think Nascar need to know that sky arent showing it,but we may need help from some of the Nascar people in the states.
2) They mentioned how long each race was and i guess they were almost saying they didnt have enough air time , they should have thought about that before taking it from Nasn and didnt they show the bud shootout 3 or more times. Most Nascar races will not clash with other sports because its late on a sunday night.Dont buy that either.

morral of the story is if you dont do your homework on Nascar and its coverage and fan feed back , maybe you shouldnt have gone for it and left it at Nasn.

try these guys , more of us complain we might get somewhere.
Skysports customer services seem helpful so lets not be to rude .

viewerr@bskyb.com ( viewer realations)
tel no .. 08700240778
think this is a number for sports news editor , might not be as helpful as one above , 02077053000 .

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Originally Posted by blown50stang

looks like on the sky forum people are not very pleased with skys coverage of Nascar,

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all four of them. hardly representative. the crictical and less tolerant are usually more vociferous than those who are happy or have no opinion either way.

what other forums would we find this topic and all let our thoughts known to sky.



www.ten-tenths.com

try this
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...php?p=21512154

You do have to wonder if anyone important enough at any company gets to hear 'outside' criticism - they are usually surrounded by people telling them what a great job they are doing, which basically translates to the minions keeping a lid on things because they don't want to appear to be the bringer of bad news to the boss in his ivory tower.
:rolleyes:



PS: What exactly is an ivory tower? :D

Darn - just noticed - NASN is showing the Nationwide race at 8.30am Sunday - so by watching the 500 I am going to know the result before seeing it, because they always mention it, as they would.


Oh well............

:rolleyes:

May have been mentioned earlier on thread but, like many others, I was waiting for setanta at the weekend and found nothing. Flipped around and found that it was now down to Sky.

You cannot really shoot Keith Heuwan down for his presentation - what he lacks in knowledge he makes up with enthusiasm. I'm sure he'll very quickly get up to speed with exactly why we get steamed up over NASCAR. Remember how awful F1 coverage from the studio side when ITV took it over? It soon changed.

As for Ben Collins - he needs a dose of something to make an exciting sport sound exactly that - EXCITING. There is one man here in UK who is a real enthusiast and he's from the world of rallying - that Pentti Arikkala. Mind you his Finnnish English gets quite unintelligible when he gets going!

Give them a few races and maybe, just maybe, SKY will read this and other forums and take note.

I have just cancelled my NASN/Setanta subscription - when asked for the reason I quoted loss of NASCAR. The reply was quite a surprise. Basically they've had a very large number of cancellations due to the loss and very few have been persuaded to stay on at reduced subscription rates. Again the reason was a bit of a surprise - we don't want more soccer!!

Why would you buy the races without the pre race coverage?. These people must be stupid as hell!. I dont know what sky spent on the contract but i bet it was a fair penny, without the pre race its worthless. Looks like we'll all have to keep our NASN subscrpitions so we can watch NASCAR Now otherwise we will never get any news.

and the "havent got enough time in the schedule" is bobbins. Sky sports has so much crap on it its unbelievable. NASCARs pre race show would pull in alot more viewers than BMX ridin or show jumpin.

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Originally Posted by Haulin'AssAndTurnin Left

1 without the pre race its worthless.

2 "havent got enough time in the schedule"

3 pull in alot more viewers than BMX ridin or show jumpin.

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1 Bit too strong

2 Agree

3 Agree big time

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Originally Posted by colinspooky

1 Bit too strong

2 Agree

3 Agree big time

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Yeah was a bit strong. it just seems so odd. Ill have to set the laptop up and get the pre race of Speed sunday if the pre race is on speed, fox hasnt been on tvu for ages.