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<blockquote data-quote="rdc" data-source="post: 10449" data-attributes="member: 2">Shaun Writes:&quot;I would recomend airing comersials (?)&nbsp; for the offroad TV series on sports channels such as ESPN, FOX sports net, Speedvision, Outdoor channel, and so on. Even advertising on the youth oriented channels such as MTV might be smart.&quot;Let's think this one through a bit more clearly. Obviously FOX isn't going to accept commercials that promote a TV series on rival channel ESPN, And ESPN isn't going to run commercials that promote a series on FOX. Same applies with MTV. FOX now owns Speedvision, which is being rebranded as the SpeedChannel, and will soon carry mostly NASCAR shows, following the FOX/NASACR multi-year package. ESPN2 has dropped the CORR Offroad Series, so we know that ESPN2 isn't much interested in offroad, especially as they are now targeting a different audience, through the creation of their own Property, the XGames, Winter XGames, B3Games, and has dropped the CORR Series. This leaves desert offroad to compete for available time on Speedvision/Speedchannel, with the CORR Pro Series, the CORR Sportsman Series and with WRC. We know that each of these properties has sponsorship funding to cover the production costs and to buy the airtime. If you didn't see it on TV, did it really happen?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rdc, post: 10449, member: 2"] Shaun Writes: "I would recomend airing comersials (?) for the offroad TV series on sports channels such as ESPN, FOX sports net, Speedvision, Outdoor channel, and so on. Even advertising on the youth oriented channels such as MTV might be smart." Let's think this one through a bit more clearly. Obviously FOX isn't going to accept commercials that promote a TV series on rival channel ESPN, And ESPN isn't going to run commercials that promote a series on FOX. Same applies with MTV. FOX now owns Speedvision, which is being rebranded as the SpeedChannel, and will soon carry mostly NASCAR shows, following the FOX/NASACR multi-year package. ESPN2 has dropped the CORR Offroad Series, so we know that ESPN2 isn't much interested in offroad, especially as they are now targeting a different audience, through the creation of their own Property, the XGames, Winter XGames, B3Games, and has dropped the CORR Series. This leaves desert offroad to compete for available time on Speedvision/Speedchannel, with the CORR Pro Series, the CORR Sportsman Series and with WRC. We know that each of these properties has sponsorship funding to cover the production costs and to buy the airtime. If you didn't see it on TV, did it really happen? [/QUOTE]

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