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Here's why you should care about MO coverage: If Dorna could get off their wazoo and leverage our DivX expertise and our largest-in-the-world readership, we could have the races (replete with their TV ads so they can throw that into increased pricing) both live and on-demand from MO!





That would be awesome. If people weren't constrained to watch the show when it's aired (forcing you to their time schedule, a big negative of static TV) and we could push it in front of our readership, I'm sure we could make a dent in the US market that doesn't otherwise care.

 

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Re: Petition to keep speedvision

It is that low. I should've stated it more clearly, but when MO first started, we were the ONLY American source for real-time, or even within-a-week results, and the readership was really low.

No motorcycle race has ever made a "1" rating, required to show up on the ratings charts. Speedvision claims 45 million households, so, at best, less than two percent of their viewership watches.

I'm one of those that watches, mind you, so you're preaching to the choir on how cool it is to watch. I pay for DirecTV just so I can have speedvision and OLN (tour de france, tour de spain and the Manhattan GP where I got third in my class are on OLN). But, trust me, I've followed more motorcycle viewership/readership data than anyone else in the world in the last seven years (if only because we have more than anyone else ;-), the numbers just aren't there IN THE US. Europe is a different story...