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RE: [ST] Daytona 200
- Subject: RE: [ST] Daytona 200
- From: "David W. Funk" <dwf@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:38:52 -0800
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:05:33 -0500, Harries, Mort wrote:
> had some time yesterday so I watched the race on SpeedTV. Could they have
>done a worse job of it? This was a taped race. This was not live, but they
>managed to break away for commercials at all the wrong times, and leave out
>some of the most exciting parts of the race.
>
>Example: In the early part of the race DuHamel was way out in front, being
>chased by 3 or 4 other guys (Yates, Bostrom, Roberts, I think). Then there
>was a commercial break. When the race came back on DuHamel was in 4th
>place. Whaaat!!
>
>There were a number of similar badly timed commercial breaks. I mean c'mon;
>when you're showing a taped race, you can move the breaks to the boring
>parts. It really spoiled the whole race for me.
When SpeedTV replays a race they show exactly the live broadcast. I wish they
would re-edit for the reply, but they don't. The only exception are things like long red
flag stopages.
I wish they (everybody) would show live races "semi-live". Start live and then after
the first commercial, continue for exactly were they were by using tape. So by the
end of the race the broadcast would be N minutes behind.
>Ended up that some of the best parts of the race were the quite funny Yamaha
>commercials........
I agree that the home fixer-uper commercials were great.
David W. Funk
'00 Triumph Sprint ST
Pleasanton, CA
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