Originally Posted by sprinter25 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...

Bingo

[Kirk Spridgeon]

As usual, people are quick to throw blame without actually knowing any facts...

plus speed had to get to bristol for is it wed. night races the trucks and mod. Randy Smith

[Phylo82]

Originally Posted by sprintcar62 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.

What does the fact that these cars have a wing on top have to do with TV coverage???

I am sure it involved the cost of putting the race on TV again for a second night as folks have mentioned above. But heck, I'm sure everything would have worked out just fine if they had run without wings!

[AlkyMadness]

From what I've read, Knoxville was paying Speed to be there. The last time this happened, Knoxville chose not to pay the extra to continue the broadcast the next day.

I doubt a Speed broadcast comes cheap and I think it's great that they offer the live broadcast. I can accept the fact that they want to cut their losses.

[Charles Nungester]

It wouldn't have rained if they didn't have umbrellas on top!

[Phylo82]

Originally Posted by Charles Nungester It wouldn't have rained if they didn't have umbrellas on top!

I thought they were really expensive pillows! :2:

[ColoradoFan]

The word that I got this afternoon from a person "moderately in the know" was the cost would be $50k for Speed to hang around for tonight. I can't confirm that, but that was the number Dave Argabright and Brad Doty were talking about at the member's forum Thursday for a one night show. As we all know the days of TV paying to telecast a race like they did with "Thursday Night Thunder" and The Hulman Classic are long gone. Like it or not,today you buy the time and do all of the leg work to sell the sponsorship.

Vern Plotts

[B-square]

I got an e-mail from SPEED yesterday that stated the remainder of the race would be aired on Friday at 7 p.m. It kind of stinks since we already know who won, but the winner wasn't really much of a surprise anyway.

Brett

[Kevracer58]

From what I've read, Knoxville was paying Speed to be there.

If that's true, it makes sense to not broadcast Sunday- no advance ads, so the TV audience would be lower, too low to

make any $$$$$$

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