A Little Quantifying Music, Please!
Putting together a road-racing channel would be a major hassle. As much as I love motorcycle road racing and seeing more of it on TV, would be great it does have its problems. First theres the two major sanctioning bodies - the AMA and FIM. Then theres the myriad race-series they control - AMA: Super Bike, Super Sport, Formula Extreme, Super Stock and, FIM: 125Gp, 250Gp, MotoGp, Super Bike and Super Sport not to mention, events like the Isle of Man (and any number Ive missed). Thats a lot of racing to cover, continents to cross, executives to schmooze, sponsors to beg, and enough contracts to keep a law firm the size of Rhode Island busy for a year. While Im not privy to this sort of information, Im sure that every motorcycle publication (including MO) has crunched-the-numbers on fielding a cable channel. And Im pretty sure that because of the above problems, it hasnt happened.
On the other hand, NASCAR is a single governing body, with a manageable number of bothersome issues. Events, race series, race teams and drivers: all need to be kept tack of and kept in line. Another advatage to NASCAR is that it offers considerably more space on their cars, for sponsors to advertise upon.
Lack of space leads to another problem for motorcycle racing - identifying the bikes during the race. Im an avid race-watcher, and Im always losing track of whos-who and whats-what. For the casual viewer thats gotta be murder!