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    Posted: 16 Jun 17 at 8:48pm
Education Shocked, 6 million, you could have probably got rights to televise for that, put it on mainstream channel for free, bring sailing to the masses, educate the public.
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F1 lost considerable audience due, in part, to Pay TV rights. So has the AC. Free to Air on normal channels should have been the way forward to entice the general public. Greed got in the way here.

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Yup, I won't pay to watch televised sport, I'll go and participate instead.....
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I was looking at the times when the AC is broadcast in the US. It's normally on from about 1pm to 3pm, which makes me wonder how many people who are active enough to be lured into sailing, let alone "extreme" enough to be lured into sailing by foiling cats, are sitting around watching TV at that time. It also seems to be very much a 50 year old + audience.
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Originally posted by fab100


Originally posted by davidyacht

but have enjoyed the BT Sport coverage, well at least until Clare Balding turned up.  

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Yeah, I thought that was a bit weird. Although I guess its turned the programme into a proper 'show' in terms of a bit of build up etc.

Stevie Morrison though - he's brilliant, I love his enthusiasm :-)



Yeah I was perfectly happy with Ken and the other guy (sorry, forgot your name mate!). Claire's first day was a disaster - wittering all over the prestart. Happily they fixed that.
Agree about Stevie - enthusiasm,and the intelligence to relate things to other sports, just in case there's non sailers watching. (If they can steal the o for cyclors, can we steal the e back...??)
Stevie could do the show without Claire. Is she just some kind of Go-To presenter for so-called elitist sports??
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Originally posted by Daniel Holman

Have to agree with the last few posts.
The boats are technologically very advanced and impressive and all that, but once they are going along in a straight line, speed aside there is nothing going on save grinders being ground. The format of racing is basically dumbed down for the masses.


Yeah right. Well I look forward to you being on the next AC winner then.
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Would any kids get into motorsport if the 'ultimate accolade' was going at 60mph and maybe getting a mention in the local paper??
Of course AC is elite and beyond most of the world. It's called ambition - it's the kind of imagination and drive that has got humans to the moon. And evenback again.
Please don't knock people/sport/technology wanting to aim for the highest level they can!!
It was a bit cheesy, but BBC's "Be Inspired" strap line wasn't bad. If you don't need inspiration then go sit in a cave and eat berries.
Anyway - soon time to watch Pete B get another mauling, and Ant D finally triumph at the 24h




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Not many kids get into motorsport when the ultimate accolade is going at 372 kmh and getting on TV. Huge numbers of people get into swimming where the ultimate accolade is going at about 5 knots. Huge numbers of people get into cycling where the ultimate accolade is normally won at about 17 kmh.  There is no relationship between going faster and attracting more participants.

If you wanted technology to be the best it could be, then simply drop the rules requiring boats to be powered by sails. That way the boats will go about 200 knots or more. But if you want technology to be "the best it can be" without restrictions then it won't be a sport.


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Aim higher still,space sailing ships powered by the solar wind, tacking round the moon and a long beat to Mars.
To a certain extent sports popularity is driven by personalities, but TV today is the key, if it doesn't work on tv, it will remain the sport of enthusiasts, new people will only come in from people already doing it.
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The interesting thing about TV and sport participation, though, is that there's not much of a link between them. Plenty of sports and physical activities that are in the top 12 most popular participation sports in the UK, like lawn bowls, squash, badminton, exercise and swimming, don't get much airtime. In other countries some of the top-rating sports (US football, rugby league) rank pretty low in participation terms.
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