It'll try to find out.

Ron

ESPN, during Speed Week

There is one thing that really confuses me. I flipped over to SPEED on Friday and saw Speed Racer was on. I sat through a little bit of is waiting to see what was coming on next... To my dismay, I was watching part of the Speed Racer Thon, were they showed 38 consecutive episodes... let me do the math real quick, thats 19 hours!!! I can't believe that APBA has to pay for airtime when SPEED wants to put a cartoon on for 19 hours.

Chris

BTW I didn't sit and wait for it to finish, I'm just going by what the commercial said

Third show on orange beach today 1-4-04


The coverage was for, Super Cat, Super Cat -Light and a snip of Cat PX

This is the results of time coverage of boats actually running on the race coarse

This was very unscientific using a regular watch so I give the numbers a factor of accuracy within a ½ minute or so

1) General Commercials as well as Promos on city of Orange Beach and basic Info Breaks
--26 Minutes

Actual time Racing shown

2) PX- – 2 Minutes

3) Super Cat--12 Minutes

4) Super Cat Light –8 Minutes

5) Start and Finish Intros and flags and interviews 12 minutes


Less actual racing than last weeks show with fewer classes running

Less than half the show was boats racing

I know you need commercials to make the show happen but am i crazy that almost 1/2 the show being promo is a bit much ??

Mark

I was wondering same thing as i posted this
i will be timing other shows

some Road rallies
Sprint boats
and yea Frasier

I to am curious if this is the norm and we just never noticed it before

i will post my observations at a latter date

as far as boat sales and trailer sales you are correct

I would like to start with YOU

Common Mark support my stopwatch cause would you ???


Mark,

Hope you had a great Holiday

Back to reality and 2004

To all a prosperous New Year and a better Offshore year