Worst Dutton Coverage Ever!

[Roy]

Did anyone even know it was on let alone catch it?

Short story is you didnt miss anything

Good thing the event is so much fun, and fortunately didnt have sponsors hanging for air time and exposure because the Channel 9 programme does nothing for the events profile

[skylinegtts]

i saw it just by chance, gotta agree the coverage wasnt as good as some of the other ones.

Roy, did u get a few seconds of fame? thought i saw ur car

[Roy]

Just a flash....if they really want to lift the profile of the event and attract sponsors they really need to do a better job with regards to what they put to air

[jake33]

yeah saw. it. not that good at all. Glen Ritches voice kills me! so annoying!

good to see the blue monster representing and winning

[West]

Did anyone even know it was on let alone catch it?

Short story is you didnt miss anything

Good thing the event is so much fun, and fortunately didnt have sponsors hanging for air time and exposure because the Channel 9 programme does nothing for the events profile

Totally agree,

Sux, it seem like all they want is to show more on expensive cars, V8 and that it. A bit on your car Troy, a bit of snowy and that was it. They talked more about the Porka but not Snowy, he's the winner man.

[Do-Luck]

Was pretty piss poor.

I wanted to show my old man some of the SAU cars, and only had like 3 chances. Scotsmans car was only on the intro and that was it. Had a few shots of Snowy's machine, and I think I only saw yours twice Brisby, and Frysy's car was on once...

Although, the gate sounded good

[Snowman]

Seriously - what did you expect? It's a 30min Commercial TV show - so 20mins max of actual air time. With a field of 100 odd cars divided into that amount of time you could only cover about 12s of each car if that is all you did. But that isn't the object of the show.

From the 10 mins I saw today we got more coverage this time than we did in the last one from W.A. where we got basically nothing despite coming 2nd. I can't imagine what more you could expect though given the time allocated to cover a 3 day event with a field of that size.

[Roy]

What did i expect? I didnt expect to see any footage of my car. What i did expect was footage of runs from each event caught on film...perhaps more summaries of points after events and actual footage of the cars that were in the top 10. And when they show footage of the cars its not the same footage from 3 mins earlier.

[Belsil80]

For an event to be 'filmed' for the purpose of airing it on tv there is sooo much that could have been better! For starters where was the email telling us that it will be on channel 9 today!? (on grand final day... so who the hell is watching channel 9 anyway!???)

It is the way it is, and there is probably nothing we can do, but to show shit all of anything good/entertaining/impressive is crap. For e.g: to focus on a guy in a ferrari who is stationary looking at his map half way round a motakhana for 10 'precious' seconds is beyond rediciulous. I dont care what angle you take on that, its not entertaining compared to what could have been showed.

if they are hoping to have attracked people who are likely to go to Dubai then fair enough. i must miss the gene that inspires me to do so by watching this... but for the teams out there who work their asses off the be at the event, drive the titts off their cars to get some results and actually have sponsors that would care if their car is seen on tv then it is rediculous. Goodluck getting them onboard next year...

As Troy said, i too dont really expect to be shown on tv, but would be one to reallly appreciate it even though im not at the really pointy end... but neither are the smoke machiene commodores and ferrari.

And they stole my cheer...

Dutton 08 in a commodore with concussion!

[khunjeng]

next week at my regular wine bar I will chat to the ch9 program manager but I know what he will say...lol

[Ant97GTR]

Oh man....I didn't know it was on.....anyone got any footage of it?

Too be honest I didn't expect much more from ch9...as snowie says it is a commercial 30min show. However I figured that winning the thing would've meant some airtime!

[Snowman]

The problem is that up until now the media have seen the Dutton as more of a "rich blokes playing with their cars" than a serious motorsport event. It is why apparently a lot of the print media no longer cover the event. So the TV coverage has always been based towards individual cars and drivers - especially those that are event sponsors (Thrifty, Road Sense, Sportsmed.SA, Competition Friction, etc) rather than the event itself.

Having recently spoken to Sam and Mossy about the T.V. coverage amoungst other things we got to hear that basically because the Dutton was part of the Car Show coverage this was chanel 9's decision on how they were going to cover it.

However they are looking at changing it for next year I know. They are looking at changing the profile of the event as a sport rather than a rich boys weekend away (mostly because now the level of competition has changed compared to when the event first started out) and the T.V. coverage will refelct that. I know the Dutton guys are scared of it turning into a "Speed Week" kinda of coverage which they find boring as hell but I think the plan for 08 is to get the coverage to focus on 2-3 feature events rather than the whole weekend (again too hard to cover 29 events in 30mins) - but they will still need to do "specials" on their sponsors you can be sure of that. But they do understand that us as competitors need to be able to expose our sponsors as well if they want us to be able to continue to come to these events.

[nuttsHunglow]

respect!

[STATUS]

mt buller challenge FTW coverage wise

i thought the porsche bit was bit of a laugh, old dude cool calm collected and his wife screaming random commands... flat....turn...slip...brake...brake.. BRAKE. saw a few familar cars... white 180sx, and two gtrs white and blue... pity there was not more but a mate who is a typical tv bogan loved the coverage.... so who figures maybe we are the viewing minority?