EVERY ARCA race will be televised in 2010!

In 2009 they were going to race at Nashville and Cayuga, things can change big time. I'll wait for the press release before I really believe it.
 
I won't reveal who my people are, but the half-assed denial I got from ARCA tells me it's true and they don't want me or Chris Knight to beat them to it as usual.

Heh, too late there hoss.:growl:
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
I won't reveal who my people are, but the half-assed denial I got from ARCA tells me it's true and they don't want me or Chris Knight to beat them to it as usual.
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They kept telling you Cayuga was still on when you asked too and it was pretty obvious to me that it wasn't going to happen. But I really hope you are right, it would probably bring more teams. I've heard Ali Owens and Bobby Gerhart say that their sponsors only want to do the TV races in the past.
 
They might be telling you what you want to hear to so you will quit *****in.
 
mike honcho said:
They might be telling you what you want to hear to so you will quit *****in.
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My "*****in" was the same *****ing everyone was doing. There are only a few of us in the ARCA world with the balls to say it. I had no problem forwarding emails to ARCA, showing them what people were saying. I was the one putting interviews up with Alli Owens saying she couldn't run the entire season because the sponsors wouldn't pay for untelevised races (minus New Jersey, which not televising is stupid b/c it's a road course). Everyone was saying it, I was the only person to ask the questions and publish the answers.

If it pisses a racing sanctioning body off, fine. When I'm reporting at a race track, my job is to ask the questions and report the answers. If it pisses ARCA or it pisses NASCAR off, fine. NASCAR wasn't exactly happy about me posting the story about the Nashville firefighter who got screwed over for a decade by Aegis Labs. I'm not losing any sleep.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
If it pisses a racing sanctioning body off, fine. When I'm reporting at a race track, my job is to ask the questions and report the answers. If it pisses ARCA or it pisses NASCAR off, fine. NASCAR wasn't exactly happy about me posting the story about the Nashville firefighter who got screwed over for a decade by Aegis Labs. I'm not losing any sleep.
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Andy, you can be a hard ass and then see where it will get you. I can guarantee you that if you piss of NASCAR, you won't have any access. I know this for a fact because I've got a friend who is paying dearly for that. Of course, you can remember back when NASCAR wouldn't even let ESPN inside the track to report. I don't think you would rank any better, but I also don't think you give a s#*t. But you might then be forced to cover another racing series. One thing for sure, your attitude won't make any friends and obviously hasn't. You might just want to rethink how you handle things.
 
buckaroo said:
Andy, you can be a hard ass and then see where it will get you. I can guarantee you that if you piss of NASCAR, you won't have any access. I know this for a fact because I've got a friend who is paying dearly for that. Of course, you can remember back when NASCAR wouldn't even let ESPN inside the track to report. I don't think you would rank any better, but I also don't think you give a s#*t. But you might then be forced to cover another racing series. One thing for sure, your attitude won't make any friends and obviously hasn't. You might just want to rethink how you handle things.
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Buck, it's not my job to report one, and only one, side of any story. I guess that's the difference between Charlotte and Washington. You think I should do the very thing you complain about from the media. I know where the boundaries are.

What's the point of being a microphone for the series when they've already got a website and PR? :rolleyes:

NASCAR is screwing Mayfield. I researched a case where Aegis "mishandled" a lab test that resulted in a false-positive. Similar deal happened as is with Mayfield. Aegis lawyered up and spent millions of dollars fighting to cover up their screw up. The only thing that was at stake was a man's job. NASCAR didn't like it. But, it's a side of the story that needed to be reported.

As for expressing the need for a TV deal, toledo47 nailed it. Drivers aren't competing in the series because sponsors don't think it's worth it to spend thousands of dollars to sponsor a racecar for all of 10,000 people to see. This was a big concern in the series, and nobody in the ARCA media wanted to speak up for the teams (because money isn't as tight at Sheltra Motorsports or Eddie Sharp Racing:rolleyes:). RFTW isn't mainstream, it's grassroots.
 
MavTV?
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Didn't they try this once? :windows:
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Here's another sample of the crappy product that is MavTV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEdjFeqdBuA
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I have 2 of their full broadcasts that I found online(one on Mavtv's site one on another site). They weren't very good, but are the races that are cut down to less than 60 or 30 minutes ever good? There is not enough time to work with, I don't the the production company or station makes much of a difference. Probably the best i've seen were the old CASCAR races that were shown on SPEED, those were an hour long.
 
toledo47 said:
I have 2 of their full broadcasts that I found online(one on Mavtv's site one on another site). They weren't very good, but are the races that are cut down to less than 60 or 30 minutes ever good? There is not enough time to work with, I don't the the production company or station makes much of a difference. Probably the best i've seen were the old CASCAR races that were shown on SPEED, those were an hour long.
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Where would I find these two broadcasts?

Links are nice.
 
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