Mark's got it spot on. Interesting has nothing to do with what gets on TV;
all it takes is someone to pay for the airtime. The obvious example is the
infomercial : does anyone consider Ron Popiel's "show" on his rotiseriere
oven interesting or good entertainment? No. Yet it's on TV. Why? Cause Ron's
paying for the airtime.
So the message is - find someone to pay for autocross airtime and we can be
on TV. But if you can find someone like that why not get them to build an
autocross lot instead?
Regards,
Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Hirt" <Mark.Hirt@attbi.com>
To: "David Hillman" <hillman@planet-torque.com>
Cc: "autox list" <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: Solo on TV, Again ( was re: GRM/best )
> One word "sponsorship". The lumberjack shows probably buy air time
> (just like CART) some sponsor pays the bill. Poof your on TV.
>
> Of course if SCCA did it they would probably hire Mr. Video to shot
> the action. Anybody else think that after a couple heats the cameraman
> would be able to follow a car on course.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:58:21 -0500 (EST), David Hillman wrote:
> > Someone still needs to explain to me, like I'm a six year old; how
fat,
> >hairy guys standing stock still with ear-splitting saws chewing up
> >perfectly good logs for no good reason is significantly more "visually
> >interesting" than autocrossing, especially ProSolo. Okay, occasionally
> >they show fat, hairy guys using an axe.
> >
> > Or is it just that the market for performance logging equipment is so
> >much larger than the automotive market?
>
>
> Mark Hirt
>
> Mark.Hirt@attbi.com
> http://home.attbi.com/~nxracer/
>
> I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
>
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