Some people say that ProSolo is too "Grass roots" for TV. Well, it's hard
to get any more "grass roots" than mower racing?!?!
If someone can make money by placing racing mowers on TV, it can obviously
be done profitably with cars.
It is inevitable that someone is going to come along with creativity and
business ability, that can organize this, wrap it up in a profitable and
marketable format, and sell it to some very happy drivers and sponsors.
The only question is "who"?
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>From: "Murray, Matthew D." <MDMURRAY@gwns.com>
>To: Teamdotnet <autox@autox.team.net>
>Cc: Me <mattm@optonline.net>
>Subject: Mower racing vs ProSolo
>Date: Sat, Oct 28, 2000, 10:48 AM
>
>This caught my attention. Since I'm fairly familiar with the spots that
>Speedvision airs, I didn't remember seeing that (POS) in rotation recently.
>
>So lemmy go dig up the logs and look at the spot (just to remind myself how
>awful it was). I scroll through the east coast primetime and do not find
>anything. I check the mirror (west coast airing) and do not find anything.
>Three spots in the rally show are listed as "Pro Rally/Various". I check
>them
>and they are: Audi, Falken Tires, and Hyundia.
>
>So where is this spot? Lemmy look at the show (it's still in the playback).
>Segment #3, has a "promo" listed on the client runsheet. The plot thickens.
>Spin to the end of segment #3, and there it is. Posted into the program, is
>a
>:15 version of the :30 that ran a few year's ago (for the TV tech heads, it
>looked like it came off of a U-matic =8^O ).
>
>What this means, is that the air time was not separately arranged. It was
>edited/posted in, when the raw material was put together and the show was
>completed. Taking this a little bit further (here's the speculation part),
>no
>one dumps a promo into a show out of the goodness in their hearts.
>
>Maybe it was a "barter" deal. That is where for every sold product, the
>producer/network/TV station receives a portion of the sale. Or maybe SCCA
>paid X dollars to have the promo in there.
>
>The Pro Rally is a showcase for various car companies such as Audi and
>Hyundia, and I suspect that is where most of the show's funding comes from
>them.
>
>So the real question is: is any division of the club, funding television
>productions?
>
>Food for thought, reply to my home domain: mattm@optonline.net or the list.
>
>Matt Murray
>Could we change teh STD class to something else?
>STD = Sexually Transmitted Disease
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: <mikelowe@pop.pointecom.net>
>To: <autox@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 9:28 PM
>Subject: re: Mower racing vs ProSolo
>
>
>> > From: David Hillman <hillman@planet-torque.com>
>> > * the SCCA just doesn't want autocrossing on TV
>>
>>
>> I am all but certain that the SCCA doesn't care to market
>> autocrossing via TV. Friday evening, I was watching a Pro Rally
>> event and a World Challenge race on Speedvision (my Friday life sucks
>> :-( ). There was a brief SCCA commercial during one broadcast. It
>> was ALL road racing. Spec Racers and corner workers were prominent.
>> It looked like the entire footage was filmed at a regional road race
>> but that's IMHO. . . .
>
>> . . . Would it KILL the SCCA to feature autox in _any_ way? . . .
>
>> Mike Lowe
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