Charlie Spencer
Road courses and short tracks.
http://espn.go.com/watchespn/feedback
Here's the URL if you want to vent your spleen. Some of you may still watch about ESPN after their NASCAR contract is up and so may hope for some improvement. Me, auto racing is about the only sport I watch, so I don't care what they do.
Just don't think that NBC is automatically going to be any better. They may schedule races on their broadcast network, and the local affiliates are usually allowed to override network programming at their discretion. Those affiliates know their audiences want to see the local school and its conference brethren. Those affiliates paid for contracts to carry whatever conference the local school belongs to, and they're not going to toss that money away for whatever the network is carrying. Had last night's race been on NBC instead of ABC, many of us still would have been watching whatever ball game the local affiliates had scheduled.
Anyway, here's what I sent.
"I understand college football is more popular than NASCAR. I have a hard time understanding why a pre-season basketball game takes precedence over a playoff event; I guess the fans watching a game in progress are due an ending even if it's pointless.
What I don't get is how to view ESPN3.
First, the next time you have to bump something over to ESPN3, your ticker should make clear that it is NOT a channel on a cable provider. The social networks are loaded with questions from people who had never heard of ESPN3 before and wanted to know what channel their provider carried it on. Your ticker should have included a web address or URL to prevent this confusion.
Second, once I learned it was a web feed, I found I had to log on. I lost more time creating an account. Next time, start the ticker earlier and include a statement that it requires logging on.
Finally, once I was logged on, I never saw any links to the race. If you started the race on ESPN3, what did I need to do to view it? What should I have looked for? I used the search tools and clicked the buttons for 'Auto Racing' and 'ESPN3' but there were not results. If I didn't specify 'ESPN3' but left the option for 'All Networks', the only racing programming listed was NHRA. What did I do wrong? I'm sure you started the race on ESPN3, but how many of those 95 million homes were actually able to see it?
You had an opportunity to introduce ESPN3 and your related web feeds to millions of new users. You accomplished that, although the impression you left probably isn't the one you would have preferred."
Here's the URL if you want to vent your spleen. Some of you may still watch about ESPN after their NASCAR contract is up and so may hope for some improvement. Me, auto racing is about the only sport I watch, so I don't care what they do.
Just don't think that NBC is automatically going to be any better. They may schedule races on their broadcast network, and the local affiliates are usually allowed to override network programming at their discretion. Those affiliates know their audiences want to see the local school and its conference brethren. Those affiliates paid for contracts to carry whatever conference the local school belongs to, and they're not going to toss that money away for whatever the network is carrying. Had last night's race been on NBC instead of ABC, many of us still would have been watching whatever ball game the local affiliates had scheduled.
Anyway, here's what I sent.
"I understand college football is more popular than NASCAR. I have a hard time understanding why a pre-season basketball game takes precedence over a playoff event; I guess the fans watching a game in progress are due an ending even if it's pointless.
What I don't get is how to view ESPN3.
First, the next time you have to bump something over to ESPN3, your ticker should make clear that it is NOT a channel on a cable provider. The social networks are loaded with questions from people who had never heard of ESPN3 before and wanted to know what channel their provider carried it on. Your ticker should have included a web address or URL to prevent this confusion.
Second, once I learned it was a web feed, I found I had to log on. I lost more time creating an account. Next time, start the ticker earlier and include a statement that it requires logging on.
Finally, once I was logged on, I never saw any links to the race. If you started the race on ESPN3, what did I need to do to view it? What should I have looked for? I used the search tools and clicked the buttons for 'Auto Racing' and 'ESPN3' but there were not results. If I didn't specify 'ESPN3' but left the option for 'All Networks', the only racing programming listed was NHRA. What did I do wrong? I'm sure you started the race on ESPN3, but how many of those 95 million homes were actually able to see it?
You had an opportunity to introduce ESPN3 and your related web feeds to millions of new users. You accomplished that, although the impression you left probably isn't the one you would have preferred."
