NO CURE FOR STUPID

I had an interesting phone call over the weekend. Seems someone I know very well who lives in Batesburg, SC, about 30 miles from me, tuned into his Direct TV Channel for the Nationwide race Saturday night to be greeted with a screen blank except for the notice that the race was "blacked out" in his area. He called Direct TV and was told that was a decision of the race track as they had not sold enough tickets to the race and therefore requested the blackout for anything within a certain radius of the track. Although Direct TV did join the race in progress, it was shocking to me that Atlanta Raceway would have the audacity to black out coverage of the race. What a stupid, down right idiotic move on the part of Atlanta Raceway Management. I do recall when Charlotte Motor Speedway did that years ago to the 600.

Just think. If they are going to start blacking out races where there are not enough tickets sold, looks like SpongeBob Squarepants will get a lot more viewers. Lack of ticket sales? Lack of television viewers? Lack of fan? Black out NASCAR if you must. Or maybe I just won't care any more.

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What a change! It's been awhile since I've checked in and I'm quite surprised. It may take me awhile to figure it our but first look it's really great.


updated by @tim-leeming: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM

I also found it out on dish also but a little searching found the feed on an alternate espn feed . I didnt try on the computer because I had the den to myself for a change. But most times I can usually bootleg a feed on it thats going to a station or such. I enjoyed the race especially the end and a couple of other notable issues ..

The race in it's entirety came over my DIRECT TV (which I love) but there was a notice stating that it was blacked out. But it was NOT. We saw everything including the Countdown.

We once upon a time had Cox TV which showed their own commercials in between the networks and I got fed up with them and changed to DIRECT TV and have been very satisfied with it. Over three (3) years now.

CMS used to be the guiltiest of the guilty for blacking out races. My Richmond boss, Paul Sawyer, used to tell Humpy & Bruton how stupid he thought that was. His opinion was you were building the NASCAR brand and enticing folks to come visit your track if you were televising good races.

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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"