It was Knoxville Raceway that pulled the plug on TV coverage for Sunday.

That is total ******** are they that greedy all the tickets already have been sold. No wonder I don't like the wings any way just gives me and others more reason to not watch that ******** in person.

[miledirt]

I wouldn't be so sure that this was Knoxville's decision...

[the1jet17]

Atleast its not like we payed for it on PPV or something! haha

Iowa has a very high unemployment rate. I was somewhat shocked at the size of the crowd. This place was always capacity since I can remember. I find it hard to believe that Knoxville would pull the plug. Not calling anyone a liar. Nobody's going to show up and buy a ticket to watch two races at an hour and a half. That's the only reason I could see for not being live.

[petey]

Speed did not cover the race in 2005 when Sat. night was rained out so no surprise here.

[Michael#81]

Listen to it Live on Hoseheads!

[Tim Clauson]

Could it be the cost of production a second night ? I would imagine that the time that was produced last night was paid for by the advertisement we all watched during the rain delay. Now to ad a complete show for a second night in a row, the $$ has to come from somewhere. Maybe dean could enlighten us on the costs and such ...

Tim Clauson

[sprinter25]

Originally Posted by Tim Clauson Could it be the cost of production a second night ? I would imagine that the time that was produced last night was paid for by the advertisement we all watched during the rain delay. Now to ad a complete show for a second night in a row, the $$ has to come from somewhere. Maybe dean could enlighten us on the costs and such ... Tim Clauson

Either that, Tim, or it was a "time-buy", where Knoxville purchased airtime from Speed and sold all of the advertising time, and kept all of that revenue themselves. So if the race were to be televised tonight, Knoxville would have had to "buy" more TV time from Speed, and likely not have the ability to quickly sell the ads in order to prevent it from becoming a money loser.

Or maybe Knoxville pulled the plug after they heard Speed TV's costs for the Sunday night telecast...I'm guessing that the production costs, including personnel, satellite uplink, additional per diem expenses. could quickly add up to $50-$100K.....live TV ain't cheap...

[racefan20]

Originally Posted by Tim Clauson Could it be the cost of production a second night ? I would imagine that the time that was produced last night was paid for by the advertisement we all watched during the rain delay. Now to ad a complete show for a second night in a row, the $$ has to come from somewhere. Maybe dean could enlighten us on the costs and such ... Tim Clauson

I think thats exactly it Tim. In 2005 Speed wanted to be reimbursed for its extra production costs in order to stay an extra day. Knoxville either didnt have or couldnt see the ROI for the extra cash.