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Yeley Gets Pub
JJ Yeley is receiving a lot of attention after his first top ten finish of his young Cup career. The Open Wheeler is featured on the front page of NASCAR.com.
Indy and Charlotte in One Day
We will not see a driver run the Indy 500 and the Coke 600 this year because of the time constraints. Mathematically a fan could do it if they had the cash or could win the Jim Beam 1100. The adult beverage maker is giving a fan and three guests opportunity to win a trip to both races, transportation and suite passes. Here is the link to the website.
IRL Testing at Homestead
The Indy Racing League heads to Homestead this week for testing. Thursday, Rusty Wallace will take to the road course with other IRL teams to get a feel for what he will be commentating on later this year in the ABC TV booth. The IndyCar Series continues testing through Saturday when the Indy Pro Series takes to the road course. The ICS takes on the oval on Sunday followed by the IPS on Monday. Our friends over at TracksideOnline.com will have live updates of the testing.
33 Predictions
To some people he is a thorn in their side; to others he is a humorist. SPEED’s Robin Miller has posted his thirty-three predictions for 2006 on SPEED’s website. I will only list three. For the rest, you have to visit SPEED's website Speedtv.com.
2. Mario Andretti will be the 24th and final qualifier for the 90th Indianapolis 500. Tony George then announces qualifying will be reduced to four hours in 2007.
11. Miffed that Mario is back in an Indy car, A.J. Foyt comes out of retirement and qualifies for his 36th Indy 500. But he has to get one of his old roadsters out of the IMS museum because it's the only car he can fit in.
23. Helio Castroneves will win the IRL championship, Sam Hornish Jr. will capture the Indianapolis 500 and Danica Patrick will still get more magazine covers.
NBS 24/7: The Rookies
Open Wheelers will be well represented on the series NBS 24/7 tonight on SPEED. The series this year focuses on Busch teams with rookie drivers Joel Kauffman, Tracy Hines and A.J. Foyt. The program airs tonight at 7:30pm following Seven Days on SPEED.
Why Did the Olympics Fail on NBC?
NBC produced less than desirable ratings during the last two weeks of the Olympics. The athletes and sports have been fine and the technical end has seen great innovations but unfortunately, the programming side failed to innovate to today’s viewers. Unlike the Salt Lake Games, the Torino Games were played in a different time zone and four years later, American viewers could look up the results online as it was happening instead of waiting for prime time viewing. The NBC family of networks did a fine job of live or semi live coverage during morning hours but it was the evening where they crashed and burned. Viewers in prime time may have tuned in for figure skating and saw 5 minutes of their sport but were forced to watch 15 minutes of another sport before what they had tuned in to watch came on. Naturally the viewers probably flipped the channel to another popular program and never came back. I couldn’t stand NBC’s prime time coverage. I tuned in to watch curling or hockey and was forced to watch figure skating. Lets hope in 2010, NBC will let us watch a whole game in primetime and just not snippets before force feeding us something else. It may mean bad numbers for one of the four hours but I watch sports to see the game. Not to see commentary followed by another sport I would rather not see. If I can’t find a precise schedule of what I want to see and when the network switches to something I don’t care for I am going to switch to something else. We may see more programming on the internet in four years, the same old same old will have to change.
JJ Yeley is receiving a lot of attention after his first top ten finish of his young Cup career. The Open Wheeler is featured on the front page of NASCAR.com.
Indy and Charlotte in One Day
We will not see a driver run the Indy 500 and the Coke 600 this year because of the time constraints. Mathematically a fan could do it if they had the cash or could win the Jim Beam 1100. The adult beverage maker is giving a fan and three guests opportunity to win a trip to both races, transportation and suite passes. Here is the link to the website.
IRL Testing at Homestead
The Indy Racing League heads to Homestead this week for testing. Thursday, Rusty Wallace will take to the road course with other IRL teams to get a feel for what he will be commentating on later this year in the ABC TV booth. The IndyCar Series continues testing through Saturday when the Indy Pro Series takes to the road course. The ICS takes on the oval on Sunday followed by the IPS on Monday. Our friends over at TracksideOnline.com will have live updates of the testing.
33 Predictions
To some people he is a thorn in their side; to others he is a humorist. SPEED’s Robin Miller has posted his thirty-three predictions for 2006 on SPEED’s website. I will only list three. For the rest, you have to visit SPEED's website Speedtv.com.
2. Mario Andretti will be the 24th and final qualifier for the 90th Indianapolis 500. Tony George then announces qualifying will be reduced to four hours in 2007.
11. Miffed that Mario is back in an Indy car, A.J. Foyt comes out of retirement and qualifies for his 36th Indy 500. But he has to get one of his old roadsters out of the IMS museum because it's the only car he can fit in.
23. Helio Castroneves will win the IRL championship, Sam Hornish Jr. will capture the Indianapolis 500 and Danica Patrick will still get more magazine covers.
NBS 24/7: The Rookies
Open Wheelers will be well represented on the series NBS 24/7 tonight on SPEED. The series this year focuses on Busch teams with rookie drivers Joel Kauffman, Tracy Hines and A.J. Foyt. The program airs tonight at 7:30pm following Seven Days on SPEED.
Why Did the Olympics Fail on NBC?
NBC produced less than desirable ratings during the last two weeks of the Olympics. The athletes and sports have been fine and the technical end has seen great innovations but unfortunately, the programming side failed to innovate to today’s viewers. Unlike the Salt Lake Games, the Torino Games were played in a different time zone and four years later, American viewers could look up the results online as it was happening instead of waiting for prime time viewing. The NBC family of networks did a fine job of live or semi live coverage during morning hours but it was the evening where they crashed and burned. Viewers in prime time may have tuned in for figure skating and saw 5 minutes of their sport but were forced to watch 15 minutes of another sport before what they had tuned in to watch came on. Naturally the viewers probably flipped the channel to another popular program and never came back. I couldn’t stand NBC’s prime time coverage. I tuned in to watch curling or hockey and was forced to watch figure skating. Lets hope in 2010, NBC will let us watch a whole game in primetime and just not snippets before force feeding us something else. It may mean bad numbers for one of the four hours but I watch sports to see the game. Not to see commentary followed by another sport I would rather not see. If I can’t find a precise schedule of what I want to see and when the network switches to something I don’t care for I am going to switch to something else. We may see more programming on the internet in four years, the same old same old will have to change.
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