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shouldn't the bike manufactuers start a cycling channel ?
just wondering, we are all expecting fools at oln to give us racing
coverage, but they never will. so, lets try to get the bike industry to start a cycling channel. it shouldn't cost too much especially if the cost is collectively shared and they could expect a boost in revenues as coverage should lead to greater interest and acceptance of the sport, increasing advertising and team sponsorship. thoughts ? Laz |
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shouldn't the bike manufactuers start a cycling channel ?
Yeah that makes about as much sense as a car maker to start making
vaccuum cleaners. Bike manufacturers make bikes, not TV stations. Get over it. Cycling is, and always will be a fringe sport in America. We have the internet. You can read coverage of just about every race in the world somewhere. Running TV stations is expensive, and aren't companies in it to MAKE money, not shell it out on useless wasteful projects? Yes, yes indeed they are. Tom |
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shouldn't the bike manufactuers start a cycling channel ?
Laz wrote: just wondering, we are all expecting fools at oln to give us racing coverage, but they never will. so, lets try to get the bike industry to start a cycling channel. it shouldn't cost too much especially if the cost is collectively shared and they could expect a boost in revenues as coverage should lead to greater interest and acceptance of the sport, increasing advertising and team sponsorship. thoughts ? Goddamm, that is stupid. The market has spoken. Only the TdF and a few other classics attract enough viewers. thanks, K. Gringioni. |
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shouldn't the bike manufactuers start a cycling channel ?
Kurgan Gringioni wrote: Laz wrote: just wondering, we are all expecting fools at oln to give us racing coverage, but they never will. so, lets try to get the bike industry to start a cycling channel. it shouldn't cost too much especially if the cost is collectively shared and they could expect a boost in revenues as coverage should lead to greater interest and acceptance of the sport, increasing advertising and team sponsorship. thoughts ? Goddamm, that is stupid. The market has spoken. Only the TdF and a few other classics attract enough viewers. thanks, K. Gringioni. Prediction for '06 - If Lance doesn't race, Tour coverage will be one hour highlight shows Sat and Sun shown once each day - non prime time. |
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shouldn't the bike manufactuers start a cycling channel ?
The folks at OLN are not fools. They took a channel that had a very
limited audience and figured out a way to attract another (completely different) audience and significantly boost their ratings overall. Before the Tour, they were pretty much just showing repeats in July to an audience that was mostly all away on vacation. By August, their normal audience is starved for Bassmasters and that boosts their August ratings. The TV industry should give OLN's CEO an award for good thinking. And you benefitted too. They gave you first-rate, live coverage that you've NEVER seen before in the USA. Feel lucky that you even got any Vuelta and Giro coverage at all, because those were also firsts in the USA. CBS, NBC, ABC, ESPN...None of them ever covered the Giro or Vuelta, not even in delayed broadcast. Besides: America is a land of fat-asses. The only thing they can generally appreciate about bike racing is that it's tough, and the Tour adequately reminds them of that every year. America is getting its fill already. As Kurgan said: The market has spoken already. OLN is a channel that almost no one watched before they carried the Tour. For a channel like them to drop a cycling event because of poor ratings is really saying something. |
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shouldn't the bike manufactuers start a cycling channel ?
Laz, that's an interesting idea, notwithstanding the ****brain
responses that have been posted. The bike companies would not, of course, operate such a channel, they would only put up the $$ to back it. The cost would be extremely low, since 95% of the programming would be re-showing past races. Have you checked out cycling.tv? It is a 24hr cycling channel on the web that covers road, cross, mtb, interviews etc. As long as you have high speed net access, it serves the purpose you describe. The only drawback is the reduced size of the screen. It clearly gets its advertising funding from bike manufacturers, shops, nutrition products, etc. This crap about "the market has already spoken" is just that, crap. That's like saying "don't going throwing new ideas into the marketplace, people don't want it - after all, innovative, creative ideas never catch on." |
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shouldn't the bike manufactuers start a cycling channel ?
I volunteer you to be the venture capitalist to fund such a new
channel. Laz can be CEO. With cycling.tv's stellar revenues as a projection model, you just can't lose! |
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shouldn't the bike manufactuers start a cycling channel ?
The problem with the deluded *******s on this usenet forum is that they
believe that EVERYONE loves to watch cycling. This is most definitely NOT the case. Let's face it folks, most of us like to watch it, but it's ****ing boring.. Nothing (aside from golf) will put me to sleep faster than watching a 6 hour long Tour stage, or a 6 hour long Classic. Kurgan is right. The market HAS spoken. The market doesn't want it. Now just go back to reading updates from Jeff on cyclingnews.com, and you'll be good to go. Just forget about getting race coverage aside from the Tour and some select classics. It just isn't going to happen in the US. Bike companies would freakin' lose their investment money if they dropped cash into this dumb ass idea. Tom |
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