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At 3:30pm EST Fox sports will air the first Marathon race held in May by SBI/APBA

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Thanks, I just set tivo.

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Cool, thanks for the heads up!

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dvr set... :cool:

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Show just ended, not bad for a half hour show

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Oh good night!!! How do they expect people to watch it when we have to work?

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What's work?

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To those who read and partiipated in the thread "Why it's not Big Time" several weeks back ... Just watched the show on FOX. I rest my case.

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If you have Tivo at home, and you are at work (Doing nothing besides playing on OSO) and you find out that boat racing is coming on......You can go to Tivo's website, log in, and tell it to record the race. I think it needs 1/2 hr notice to get the signal to your Tivo. This is all granted that you Tivo is hooked into your home cable/dsl router.

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For us uneducated fans please state your case position HERE..

What exactly are your specific complaints related to the show??

Mine are:

-Should be an hour show..

-Camera focus should be improved. This same condition existed and still does for Unlimited Hydros, Champ Boats and more. It may be a technical problem with the zoom going from optical to digital zoom. Close ups, however, are great.

-Coverage of incidents were far from acceptable. But I
imagine coverage was limited by the 1/2 hour time limit. Besides, camera coverage (with limited number of cameras) relies on luck as any photog will tell you to catch an incident from start to finish. This is not NASCAR where you cant go potty without being on film.

-I didn't time this one but the average time dedicated to actual racing durin the average Unlimited Hydro/Champ Boat TV coverage the past 2-3 years was 9-10 minutes of racing with the rest dedicated to commercials and interviews.

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The best points IMHO:

-There was exposure on TV.

-It made Smitty look like a nice guy, so I will go to Sarasota without fear. :eek: :drink: :drink: :D

-Interviews were short and concise and fan friendly.

-Having seen 100s of boat racing TV shows I rate this one as an B+ for effort and look forward for many more.

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Here are a few more video captures

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Gdfthr:
Don't know if you read the thread I refered too, but it concerned what needed to be done to bring the sport forward. You are absolutely right about atleast it was television exposure. What I was doing was looking at it from the uneducated fan perspective.

- How many classes were actually running? Without knowing the sport it would have appeared to be about 20. There was no focus because they were getting everybody on television. This might be improved in an hour but it hadn't been in the last couple of years except in OSS and that was because the races were limited to one class. That is not an endorsment of OSS per se, but simply the television in it's first year as far as classes. I have no clue what they are doing this year.

- Is Fountain a major sponsor? (That's asked tongue in cheek) because that was the only manufacturer I heard mentioned throughout.

- Onboard is always good but just for the sake of onboard? No chatter? Just motor sounds and usually too much light coming in to see out the front window.

Let me state that this is not a reflection on Stan or the production company. They work within the perameters given but going back to the entire sport, the television has always been almost an afterthought. In reality it is the one vehicle that can get the word out to new fans. Boat racers like the show if their boats are in the show. Sooner or later the idea has to get out that it has to be fan oriented.

This past weekend F1 forgot the fans ... and now the fans are going to forget F1.

The rest of the case I was resting was stated in the thread that went on for the better part of a week. I found the comments and ideas to be excellent and thanked all who participated when it completed.