How to increase ratings

Per EagleEye's suggest I'm starting a thread on how to improve raitings. Basically last year's numbers show us that roughly 275,000 people on average watched race on versus, for a .24 rating. That's both a good and bad thing. Bad as in the ratings suck, good from the point of that' its easy to show improvement.

Basically we're at a point in history adding 150,000 fans saves the ICS. that would move us from a .24 average on verses to roughly a .45, still bad, but marked improvement, and all we really have to show is a start of an upwards trend. The Izod adverts, a DirecTV deal should get a good chunk of that, but a good portion will have to come through outreach

If you want the ICS to prosper its time that you became an ambassador for the sport. If everyone of the 200,000 die hard fans out there found one of their friends and converted them to a fan the problem would be solved. If you want to help Indy, hold watch parties. Bring your friends over for a Memorial Day BBQ on Sunday. I did it last year, invited 20 people, and one couple just bought tickets to the race at Barber.

Also take your kids, or your friend's kids to races. There have been a couple of times I've bought extra tickets, and therefore had "Extra tickets," and asked friends if the wanted me to take their kids along and if you hook their kids you typically start the family on it.

Just go to bars and ask them to put the race on the big screen and be friend. The success of this year's ratings rely entirely on you. I bought eight tickets to Barber and my BF and I are only using two of them. I'm giving the rest away to clients and friends, who hopefully will become fans.

I'm the irl I get on the horn with Honda and crank up the horsepower by 100....

Then I rent out Fontana on the mon and tues leading up to Long beach and I set a unofficial closed coarse record .....

Then I have evry last person associated with the irl ... Officials team owners pit crews racers etc..... Especially the racers! Talk up a new track record at Indy!


Then go out and set it

speed sells

get grid girls, on the oval and road course events - have a race day card of more then one indy car race,
& have lunch time entertainment such as drifting or a burnout competition.

and most important, get Chip to hire graham rahal

Raising ratings wont involve grid girls or setting lap records at Fontana. It will come when the racing is more compelling than a test pattern. Good looking cars going really fast but still able to race each other would be the best solution, but that new car is not on the immediate agenda so......

Crank up the power, give a push to pass maybe of 150 hp, take some of the wing out at places like Texas, take some away on the road/street courses as well, maybe give them less brake size to make brake conservation an issue on road courses ( skilled drivers will manage to get away) and maybe go to double file restarts. THAT would be a start.

For us fans, well try to encourage friends and family to take a greater interest in the sport, but lets face the hard reality if the show on track is like what we saw in Richmond and Iowa, we likely are wasting our time. IF my ideas don't make better passing, that's fine (Hoop will no doubt prove I am likely off now that I think of it) but I am not paid to make the racing better.I just know that it MUST be or we are dead. With 20 cars on track, you need a story to be compelling...

Drastically reduced downforce. Drastically increased horse power. Much harder tires.

Gary

This thread was kinda supposed to be about what you could to raise ratings this year without the league or teams having to spend money. But whatever fanboys.

no trck record for 13 years

13 years of declineing ratings

I agree mark .... Gotta have compelling racing

but at this point there needs to be a reason for new (and old) fans to tune in

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Originally Posted by MDS

This thread was kinda supposed to be about what you could to raise ratings this year without the league or teams having to spend money. But whatever fanboys.

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Then the thread would only have been 1 post long

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Originally Posted by Ken

Then the thread would only have been 1 post long

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So this is going to turn into another thread of whining and fantasy ideas?

There's a time and place for that, but its getting a little dark outside.

At this point, I don't think much of anything will increase ratings. America just doesn't like what passes for Indy Car/Formula Car racing these days.

IF any new fans would be interested, watching the first few 100 MPH parades ("fastest drivers on earth, my posterior Izod") will have them searching for something else to do with their time.

That's if, they even get Versus to begin with.