TV Coverage, how important is it.

[Graham]

Currently a lot of time,effort and money is spent raising the funds and getting TV coverage for the TVR Championship.

Its currenty aired on Motors TV and the web a little later.

Whilst the coverage is very nice to have and has solved a few arguments over what happened when etc Its still quite expensive.

I was just wondering what the gerneral thoughts were on TV coverage, is it seen as vital to help people get sponsorship, or just vanity for the guys racing.

has anyone ever made a decision between series over tv coverage, or only been able to get sponsorship if its televised?

Cheers

Graham

[Graham]

Thats kind of my thoughts... Motors TV seem to be only on sky packages, a good 80% of people I talk to cant get it !!!

[Graham]

Yeah Im aware of the costs, its been televised for a few years now, and its an annual battle to raise the funding..

im not sure its an £X on TV or spend the same on something else, as the sponsorship has been specifically for the TV coverage, so we may not have got it otherwise.


I suppose the questions really are if you were given the choise between 2 championship, with similar grids and costs, would TV or no TV be a deciding factor.

Also at club level has any of your sponsorship ever been dependant on or increased by TV coverage

cheers
G

[Graham]

TVR_owner said:

Would the TV restrictions on a weekends racing be a factor?

ie Double Header and Qually crammed into one day to suit TV budget ?

Possibly, I certainly prefer a 2 day program. one soultion there might be to go to 2 qualifiers say 15mins each rather than the current single 20min. then do the qualifiers on day 1 and the races on day 2. that way you only need to film the second day.

cost would go up slightly though as its an extra 10mins track time..

as an aside im not that keen on the current single qually, start race 2 with the finish positions. a race 1 problem screws your second race 2.