That'll be my fault. I've never watched mountain biking on the telly until I saw it on TNT this year. Been watching most of the Downhill and XC races and absolutely loving it.
Good, they're clearly putting a lot of time and money into trying to make it work and gain viewers. I really like the coverage and XC course previews with Josh and various team riders each race weekend are a really good way to get your head around how techy a lot of the tracks are now! Having a racer on most weekends too is a good idea to get a different perspective on things, although some of them are clearly more comfortable in front of the camera than others!
The Downtime Podcast episode with Josh Carlson was really good actually, hearing how enthusiastic he is about it and how much happens in the background that you don't see/hear.
My only annoyance is Ric pronouncing Schurter "Shurr-urrr" but I'll live with it.
The cumulative views number set against the watched hours sounds to me like a fairly small but dedicated fan base watching all of their races whilst a huge number of people see is there but then switch away. I'd be interested to know what a 'view' is. My guess is that tuning in and seeing the preamble is on so going away and coming back when the racing starts is a count of two. Multiply that across a weekend of racing and one viewer can rack up a lot of stats.
I can’t decide if it’s alot of views. So across downhill including qualifying, short track and xco all doubled up for men and women that 50 things so far this year? So a million per race??
It’s really expensive per race for me. Ok when I’m doing grands tours as well but when there is only one race in a month it’s mad
Would be interesting to have comaparative stats from the Red Bull days - else those stats are meaningless.
I have watched everything that's been on the TNT TV channels and enjoyed the content. Ric needs to get better at commontary but other than that I'm impressed.
