Ch 10 Lose V8 Supercar

[gtr660hp]

Bye bye Woodsy and the gang-hope Crompton and Beattie now something about AFL-lol

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/st...5E39478,00.html

Edited May 24, 2006 by gtr660hp

[Beer Baron]

wow, i will miss v8s on channel 10.

[JCMarshall_Law]

Damm, I don't think channel 7 will do a better job, I liked the 10 commentators.

[gtr660hp]

Yeah I agree Ch 10 team did a great job and have been around since 1997 when the V8 supercar deal started- But i think when Ch 7 dropeed $70 mil on the table Ch 10 couldnt match that. $$$$$$$ talks bull shit walks

[Mr Italy!]

Holy shit channel 7 are pulling money from somewhere, they're buying everyone and everything!!

[gtr660hp]

Will be interesting to see if V8's are at Melbourne F1 next year cause Ch 10 still have the rights to F1.

[dangerous_daveo]

Didnt Chan 7 and Chan 10 combine to buy the afl off chan 9? That was like 1/2 a billion... I reckon chan 7 is selling drugs!

That or over spending...

[ctjet]

so whats gonna be the home of motorsport now??

they're advertising slogan goes down the tube hahahahaha

[ctjet]

what about mixed race weekends....

ch10 has the right to F1 and indy but not V8 supercars... wtf are they gonna do then??

[djr81]

Bye bye Woodsy and the gang-hope Crompton and Beattie now something about AFL-lol

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/st...5E39478,00.html

Unfortunately I am old enough to remember the channel 7 motor sport coverage. In their last few years the following "features" were intermittenly included:

Races that lasted not for a set distance but for 50 minutes so that channel 7 could package it into a 1 hour broadcast on a Sunday arvo so not to upset the footy telecast. You got one race per round by the way (late eighties, from memory) As Dick Johnson said:"It (the Sierra) was the only race car I ever had with a clock on the dashboard"

In their last year you got three 20 minute races per round. I remember going to Wanneroo to watch a round in the early nineties. Main feature (2x20 minute races on the Sunday) was over by lunchtime...

Mike Raymonds brilliant commentary: eg standin in it, oooohhhh he's got it sideways, endless ban puns. I would go on, but the memories are too painful.

No replays for anything not broadcast, ie if it wasn't shown at the time they had no way of storing the incidents otherwise recorded on different cameras.

Anyone who has ever seen the old group A Bathurst videos will understand what I mean. As bad as they were, they were still better than the ATCC coverage. Hell, in 88 or 89 the ABC broadcast the Sandown 500 because channel 7 couldn't be stuffed.

[Deluxe]

well that is flatout gay then isn't it........ ah ohwell foxtel shows the V8's also......and the motoGP os on earlyer than a delayed telecast on Ch10 anyways! But Ch10 was really getting quite good with some decent TV shows and the whole motorsport coverage! Nothing beats RPM on sundays tho, to get the full wrap up of all facets of motorsport around the world! GOLD, and i'm sure that show will be around! maybe they might think about showing the F1 and Moto's live instead of delayed....Hmmmmm!

[gtr660hp]

what about mixed race weekends....

ch10 has the right to F1 and indy but not V8 supercars... wtf are they gonna do then??

umm the word around is no more V8's at F1 Melbourne and negotions ongoing for Indy

One thing is for sure if V8's pull the plug on Indy there goes the crowd-not many fans go to see the open wheelers., and V8's lose their one of their biggest at track crowds.

Edited May 24, 2006 by gtr660hp

[ctjet]

umm the word around is no more V8's at F1 Melbourne

YES!!! no more bogans at the F1 next year!!!

[gtr660hp]

YES!!! no more bogans at the F1 next year!!!

Haha

[Frink]

this is bullsh1t! ch10 do a pretty damn good job of it, i reckon. ch7 are hopeless at big events and live broadcasts..... foxtel do show the v8's, but its only once or twice through the week (never live...) and its the channel 10 broadcast, they just re-run it.

[Duncan]

Yeah there won't be 2 companies filming it, so you can bet fox = ch7 coverage.

The old channel 7 coverage was pretty bad but that is not to say they won't take it more seriously this time.

My wish list is:

* less bullshit talking before the broadcast

* less crompton thinking he is the stewards of the meeting and able to rule on the spot

* less talk about HRT all the bloody time even when they are running eleventybillionth

But what scares me is 7 have the rights to sunday AFL as well.

Channel 10 are not at all committed to Australian motorsport as a whole, it is all v8s and there may as well be no supporting categories at a meeting. They even dropped trackside this year making it almost impossible for a category to get any coverage

[GTRgeoff]

Agree with Drunken, but maybe now 10 will give us some motorsport and not just Supertaxis, wankers on bikes and F1.

Time for some grass roots coverage 10 you pack of sycophants.

[Duncan]

farking A...the best racing is not a procession of taxis.

[Roy]

farking A...the best racing is not a procession of taxis.

Dont hat ehte series...hate the idiotds promoting it. I hope Cochraine isnt so silly to sell the series to 7 only to see them use delayed telecasts etc. Cochraine has only ever acted in the classes best interests...lets hope he hasnt done the money grab one too many times.

Channel 7 coverage use to suck sure, but at least they telecast the FF, bikes, Sports Sedans back in the day...better then todays footage where you see nothing but V8s

[Jade]

Channel 10 are not at all committed to Australian motorsport as a whole, it is all v8s and there may as well be no supporting categories at a meeting. They even dropped trackside this year making it almost impossible for a category to get any coverage

Couldn't agree more Duncan. There is absolutely no committment from the media in Australia to cover anything other than V8's in Australian Motorsport. The sad thing is, there is so much more to Australian Motorsports as we all know. An incredible number of very talented drivers never get acknowledgment, it seems simply due to the model of car they choose to race. They attend the meetings and do the hard yards but represention as a part of Australian Motorsports might as well be non existent.

Targa Tasmania is a classic example - known as one of the most popular races in Australia with a massive number of entries, yet we are lucky to catch minor glimpses on TV of any car except the top $$$ contenders and the veterans.

Might get sour grapes for saying this, and I don't want to elaborate further but:

Heard on the grapevine that channel 10 are looking at piloting a segment for RPM on Aussie owners' performance cars, all models, not just the locally grown.

My understanding from what I have been told is it will be along the lines of Top Gear, only more personalised to individual cars/owners/drivers/history etc.

If it comes to fruition, who knows, maybe it will be the first real step towards arousing interest for the media to take a second look at supporting our local Motorsport Industry as a whole.