Future Rally Media Coverage

Eurosport?? Er, wait a minute – they are the ERC Promoters – and lost out as WRC promoters; they’re hardly likely to put the WRC on, or am I missing something?


Anyway, if you have a PC, Tablet, Smartphone – it’s highly likely the coverage will be on RedBullTV...and can be accessed on there.

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Originally Posted by Prisoner Monkeys

I'd like to believe that Mateschitz's comments really mean "keep what we've got now, because we know it works". .

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Umm, you do know that it doesn't work? That's why crowds are staying away from live rallies, TV viewing figures are in the gutter and we've only got two works teams next season. WRC is crap and whoever takes over needs to change something.

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Originally Posted by Plan9

I think anything but motors tv would be a plus. They just **** on and you can't here the cars at all and get no proper visual insights into individual stages. Hell, it looks like there wont even be a DVD of highlights for this season. If Red Bull can mimic what Eurosport did with IRc I will be pleased. Their coverage was very detailed.

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OK, their coverage is rubbish, but would you complain if they showed live SSS on friday night, saturday night and sunday afternoon? I know I wouldnt :)

Edit - If you live down under, then you'd be watching SSS on saturday morning, sunday morning and sunday evening ;)

One of the most exiting in 2013 for the armchair brigade will be to follow the development of web and TV services for the two main rally series and the two media houses!

Lets see who has the biggest progress and transformation over the season!

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Originally Posted by MrJan

Umm, you do know that it doesn't work? That's why crowds are staying away from live rallies, TV viewing figures are in the gutter and we've only got two works teams next season.

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And all of those are problems that can be fixed by introducing a new promoter. Mateschitz's comments refer more to the format of the rallies than their operations. He obviously don't want to go changing things on a fundamental level at the same time as bringing in a new promoter. He needs to turn around the viewing figures first before the category starts introducing radical changes, because if he tries to do both, it will be difficult to pinpoint exactly what works and what doesn't.

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Originally Posted by Prisoner Monkeys

And all of those are problems that can be fixed by introducing a new promoter. Mateschitz's comments refer more to the format of the rallies than their operations. He obviously don't want to go changing things on a fundamental level at the same time as bringing in a new promoter. He needs to turn around the viewing figures first before the category starts introducing radical changes, because if he tries to do both, it will be difficult to pinpoint exactly what works and what doesn't.

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I believe that the viewing figures are down because the sport doesn't grab people like it used to. And who said anything about radical changes? Making it so that rallies are 30+ stages long and have a proper number of tests on a Sunday is hardly ground breaking.

Been looking at TV promo spots and stumbled onto this - https://vimeo.com/13612779. I hope that no one makes that kind of promo any more for WRC because it is no wonder that the ratings started to go down.

Ok, I haven't been here for absolutely ages, so could someone please explain it to me, what would be the TV coverage of 2013 WRC in Europe?

I just hope it won't be Motors TV exclusively.

This is not meant as a dig at you. But why do people slate motorstv so much. At least they had the WRC on all year. I agree that there picture quality is not the best but at least they had it on all year. They only show what the people at WRc provide...

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Originally Posted by Franky

Been looking at TV promo spots and stumbled onto this - https://vimeo.com/13612779. I hope that no one makes that kind of promo any more for WRC because it is no wonder that the ratings started to go down.

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It could be worse - this is the crap that we get every year for the Bathurst 1000:

V8 Supercars 2011 - The Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 - Intro Video "This Mountain" - YouTube

Dramatic voice-overs, unnecessary lens-flares and slow-motion shots of water falling off the drivers, a Hollywood score, and it all adds up to a pretentious, self-indulgent mess that has very little to do with the actual race and is really just an excuse for the network broadcasting it to spend as much money as they possibly can to turn motorsport into a show.