Jacksonville Free Live Stream Friday Night POWRi/WAR

kdobson · 6/7/18, 9:10 PM

I always wait until I can look up into the grandstands and see that a crowd showed up before I give my son the go-ahead to push the buttons to start the live stream to YouTube. I've had him push it 3 times this year and told him not to once. Friday Night I'm going to take my chances that even if knowing in advance you could sit at home and watch it for free - that the race fans that were going to come to the races anyway actually come to the races.

For this POWRi/WAR event I know there's a lot of interest in places where it's really not reasonable to expect people to make it here. Lots of racers with family sitting back at home who would love to watch. I know there are some people overseas who would like to watch as well. I'm announcing it tonight to give you plenty of time to get mom or grandpa situated to be able to watch. We choose to do our free streams through YouTube because almost every TV or device made in the past 5 years has native and simple support for YouTube. Let's not make this complicated. Youtube also lets us make clips that will be online later as we go along without uploading again later. So when we are done streaming there should be clips on our page for just the Midget Heats, Sprint Heats etc.

Here is a link to our current YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsd...8V_UR__V8fy-PA After we get a few more subscribers they will let us get custom link - but this will be the link for Friday. BTW, help us out and subscribe to our channel. When we go live (somewhere between 6:30 and 7) the live stream should automatically appear on our channel page.

If you can't find our channel or can't copy the link, just search YouTube for Jacksonville Speedway and you'll get there. Again, almost any device has a YouTube app. Just search within the app on your TV, DVR, DVD, tablet, phone, TV stick or whatever.

Typically we divide the stream into about 3 separate streams of Heats, Semis and Features. This is because YouTube won't make the recorded stream public until after we have ended a stream. So when we stop our live stream of the heats and switch to a live stream of semi's, shortly thereafter our page will also have the recorded version of the heats if you missed them.

Each time we start a new stream I will post a direct link to that stream on both our Facebook Page and on Twitter. Again, it's better to just go to our Channel instead of going to each individual stream's link. One way or another if your are interested, you'll find us.

Caveat:
My 17 year old son who has only done this a couple times serves as the camera operator, graphics guy and stream button-pusher. I finally found a way to drag him to the race track... and he's really cheap. Both me and you get what we paid for on this. It's a pretty good stream but not perfect. He might get a graphic screwed up now and then. The stream might die for some unknown reason or he might decide to go get a Chicken Sandwich between races and the camera be stuck in one place for a bit. He also has to get the concept of when a yellow comes out people actually want to usually watch what's going on during the yellow - not the flag stand. But he's getting the hang of it race by race.

If something goes wrong and our internet goes bad or the camera stops working or windows decided to do an update to his laptop in the middle of this... it's not going to be a huge priority to me to rush and fix it. Be patient and we'll do our best. Again... it's Free.

We hope to see you at Jacksonville Friday Night for some great racing. And I hope my theory of sharing the great racing we have here with the world for free doesn't cost us fans but gains us fans in the long run.

Dirtfan · 6/7/18, 9:27 PM

Thanks for doing this for those who can't make it.
We always enjoy coming to Jacksonville, tomorrow will be no exception.
I hope to see you and Thank You in person for what you do for the racing community.

55fan · 6/7/18, 10:00 PM

Many thanks for your effort. I sure miss Powri and Jacksonville Speedway since I moved away.

chathamracefan · 6/7/18, 11:14 PM

I’ll be at Eldora and based on the forecast probs sitting out a rain delay so I will tune in!

kdobson · 6/8/18, 1:26 PM

For an hour or two this afternoon (Probably till about 2:00 Central) we have a stream going on our YouTube page just so you can get your stuff setup and bookmarked etc. Go to our page here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsd...8V_UR__V8fy-PA

Or search YouTube for Jacksonville Speedway. Again, we will have a few separate streams throughout the night. One for heats, then B-Mains, then a Feature stream. I will post direct links for those as we start them on our FB and Twitter accounts, but there's no need to use them. Just go to the link above and any new feed will show up. If there's not one that says "Live" it means we are in a break.

Frazier9 · 6/8/18, 2:19 PM

This is a great idea.Give old people a chance to figure how to operate this thing and be a customer after learning. this is my first post if it works Thanks for helping Frazier9

dirtnonwingfan · 6/8/18, 3:57 PM

I just checked out the link. Excellent quality! Thanks so much from those of us who can't attend.

kdobson · 6/8/18, 7:23 PM

Hot Laps are now Live. Here's the link again: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsd...8V_UR__V8fy-PA

Let us know if you have any issues. I'll check this occasionally. With POWRi here running the show I don't have too much to do. Gonna be a fan for a night. Enjoy.

chathamracefan · 6/8/18, 7:45 PM

Coming in great from the parking lot at Eldora. Waiting out a rain delay over here. Thanks for doing this

racefan20 · 6/8/18, 8:55 PM

Thanks for doing this Ken tell your son its just as good as most of the PPV ones.

6/7/18, 11:14 PM	#4
chathamracefan Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 721	I’ll be at Eldora and based on the forecast probs sitting out a rain delay so I will tune in!