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Originally Posted by ThePurple73
The reason silver crown cars would work on TV is they don't spin out every other lap like some shows have in the past.
Think back to when you did see USAC sprints and some Silver Crown cars on TV(ESPN), what made it happen?
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There weren't 250+ channels out there to divert people's ever changing 2 second attention span. ESPN (then ESPN2) was looking for programming to fill it's lineup. Now they have more then they can choose from so now ESPN (and all ESPN channels) want to be paid for broadcasting programs of any kind. If the Crown cars are to be on TV, then a major sponsor MUST step up and pay for that TV time. Also, when these races were on TV back in the 90's there were a few races in California that were on dirt (Ventura Speedway) and then the rest were mostly on pavement at Salem, Winchester and IRP. Heck, even the Speedrome was on there as well. I do remember a few shows from Eldora and Terre Haute as well. Without the pavement being part of midgets and sprints, TV might be impossible.