[pushrod]

Longride, how about you ask the readership to generate a clear, concise letter addressed to OLN, outlining our displeasure with the coverage of M/C sports, and how much we'd appreciate their jumping in. Then all of us can copy it and transmit it from our homes/business's/laps.

 

[edfedup]

Just give me the MotoGP and AMA races and I'll be happy sacrificing the rest of 2-wheel Tuesday. And I can definitely live WITHOUT Dave Sadowski as idiot announcer.

 

[cycleguy26]

I know this sucks for most people if the times go to 10:00 PM but it's great for me since I get off work at 10:30 PM. I won't miss as much of the motorcycle programming. It also doesn't surprise me that the NASCAR channel is doing this. God only knows what the poor ******** do when they can't watch damn-near identical cars do left hand ovals for hours on end. Maybe the sheep won't dread Tuesdays anymore. JUST JOKING

 

[1163]

Well only one word comes to mind... F*&^%*&^%$*KKK!!!



Just because the nielson houses don't watch MC racing shouldn't meen that the the couple million fans who do watch racing don't matter.



Here's hoping OLN will be able to provide the worldwide MC racing fix that my wife and I need.

 

[longride]

Good Idea

Not a bad idea. Letters of displeasure work if there are enough willing to take 2 minutes out of their busy day to send it. I'll work on that one.

 

[25850]

that SUX.

 

[8345]

Re: Good Idea

I'm in. I'll email them buggers!! Just say the word.

I need two wheeled programming to keep me sane!!!!!

 

[edfedup]

I don't get it! The elimination of motorcycle programming from Speed will leave more room for what? More NASCAR?! I'm sure even die-hard NASCAR fans get tired of watching race repeats all day, all week. Puh-leeze. Speed's sniffin too many fumes.



I'd be more than happy to watch my MC racing elsewhere, but I don't see MC racing as fitting in OLN's programming. FOXSports, are you listening?

 

[SmokeU]

Re: Good Idea

I'll send them an email as well.

 

[edfedup]

Re: Good Idea

Everyone can also try OLN's & SpeedTV's boards. Not sure about OLN, but Speed definitely listen to what you have to say.

http://www.olntv.com/webboard/default.asp?usn=

http://www.speedtv.com/insider/

 

[38092]

Made for TV, but hardly shown

I am talking about WSBK Superpole. It totally rocked when speed showed it for last year's world superbike round at Laguna, but for some wierd reason, they don't show the other rounds?

I agree with some of the other posters. Just give me MotoGP, WSBK, and AMA Superbikes IN A TIMELY MANNER, and I will be happy.

 

[sarnali]

What do you expect. Look at the money in Nascar from advertising, look at all the dip****s who think going around in circles fast is the height of motor racing. How many of them do you think even watched any of the wrc series or any other racing? Racing to them is either in a straight line or a circle. Thats who Speed panders too.

 

[1163]

This is a great idea. I'm sure anything longride can put together would more literate and less emotionally charged than what I could put together.



I just got through reading the news to my wife and she brought up a good point. With speedtv, M/C racing was a minor market. Kind of like a small fish in the very big lake of four wheel fans. At OLN it is quite possible that motorcycles could become the big fish in the relatively small pond of bicycles/mountain climbing and whatever else they currently offer.



If the couple million M/C enthusiasts switch to OLN who knows what other programming might be offered. It got me feeling a bit more hopeful for the future of M/C racing coverage and other related programming on TV.

 

[jaypuck]

Re: Good Idea

I would like to bring up one example of the letters and voices of the people having the desired effect on a corporation.

chevrolet was going to discontinue the camaro in the mid to late 90's due to low volume of sales. the number of people who asked them not to, since the camaro was such a wonderful icon of american automobile manufacturing, convinced them to continue making the car. success for the people.

and STILL no one purchased the car in enough numbers to justify production. 2002 was the last year of the chevrolet camaro.

moral of the story: write all the letters you want, if the audience numbers don't go up significantly you won't be having your motorcycle shows on speed.

 

[Grover]

So now everyone jumps on my bandwagon... Wasn't it just last week I was saying how sh!tty Speed's Tuesday night programming was? Well here they are, with crappy Tuesday night ratings, and they wonder why.



I've said it before and I'll say it again. People don't care about week old support races. Speeds justification for showing races such as (taken from this weeks Tuesday lineup) a week old 125 GP, a week old 250 GP, and a two-week old Formula Xtreme race, is that they've never been broadcast before. Cut that crap out!!! We just want to see the friggin premier classes, we don't care if they've been broadcast already, not everyone saw it the first time.



This whole thing has really frustrated me lately, maybe OLN can fix it. I just can't help but think that if speed had re-done their programming like many people, myself included, had and have suggested they'd have better Tuesday night ratings.

 

[jaypuck]

"Thats who Speed panders too."



translation: that's who makes the money for this network.

 

[1163]

I don't intend this to be antagonistic but can you see OLN changing their current programming to fit in with motorcycling? Can you imagine televised indoor trials events from around the world? Complete coverage of hill climbs and drag races? A place for the stunt riders to gain the notoriety they deserve without having to perform on public roads? Historic M/C races that I didn’t get a chance to see from the ‘70s and ‘80s?



I would spend most of my TV viewing stuck on OLN should they start offering this type of motorcycle programming.



Would it fit into their current programming? That would be difficult. Could it re-invent their programming? Certainly possible don't you think?

 

[edfedup]

Bandwagon?? Viewers have been outraged for quite a while now since Speed changed to the current format. But the whole point is to get EVERYONE involved so we CAN make a difference. Fine, you get the award for being a week earlier than the rest, but remember we're all fans here just trying to get some decent programming.



For some of us motorcycle fans, we're actually interested in some of these "support" races--some actually providing better racing than their "premiere" classes. Yeah, they're sometime late, but at least they're on. The reason we don't get enough slots in the programming is not enough viewers or veiwers not watching enough.

 

[edfedup]

Re: Good Idea

That's exactly what Speed, Dave Despain and Greg White have been saying on-air all along: Motorcycle viewers are the most vocal, yet the smallest viewership.

 

[edfedup]

PLease be an antagonist! That's what the boards are for. It would suck if we all agreed on everything right?!



When I think of OLN I think DIRT. So trials and hillclimbing are not completely out of line with this theme (and the ATV racing they currently air). But road-racing and dragracing and TTs, to me, are in a bit of a different category. Does OLN want these types of viewers when they clearly belong within SpeedTV demographic?



There IS a market in motorcyclists--that's obvious by showroom sale figures. Do motorcyclists watch racing on TV? That's another story. Motorcycling has always been an "alternative" lifestyle, slowing becoming more mainstream. It'll just take time and someone with a clear vision to combine the two. To be honest, I don't care to rush it.