The Meijer Indy 300 at Kentucky Speedway earned a .14 national television rating, according to Nielsen Media Research. The
rating means 165,000 TV households nationwide watched the race which aired on Versus cable channel starting at 8 p.m. (Saturday)
Aug. 1. The TV rating for the race in the Indianapolis market was 1.14, equating to 13,000 TV households.
The national ratings were down from the July 26 Indy Racing League race in Edmonton, which earned a .24 rating (279,000 TV households), according to Nielsen. Indianapolis market viewership of the Kentucky race was up a bit compared to the Edmonton race. The Indianapolis rating for the Edmonton race was .73 (8,000 TV households).
At Kentucky, Ryan Briscoe edged past Ed Carpenter for one of the closest finishes all year. The finish came after several laps of side-by-side racing.
The IRL's next race is Sunday at Mid-Ohio, a road course. The green flag on the Versus broadcast drops at 1 p.m.
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what you say now Talkin Terry? :D There goes that elusive Title sponsor BS.....
the IRL: backwards is momentum? :lol:
It obviously wasn't 'good' like the 'league' shills have been proclaiming. Yet I'm conflicted. I want the 'league' to fold, cease, go away, die. Yet conversely, I want to continue the taunting and ridicule of anyone stupid enough to think this abomination is actually something that resembles racing.
Nah, just kidding. Die, earl, die die die!!! :lol:
- Terry Angstadt, August 7, 2009.
Yes, Kentucky was a new low for Versus, beating even the patheticness that was Kansas (171,000 hh, 0.15), and it dropped the season 'race' average, by my count, to 0.27.
Angstadt says a title sponsor is cumming. Perhaps it's because as this point, the IRL has close to zero value, and the IRL should just be thankful that any company is willing to publicly associate themselves with their series, so will give away title sponsorship for free.
I'll bet Berwickgirl and indyboi will try to spin this as good.
Stupid gomos.
Stupid gomos.
Key metrics up. All CART's/CCWS fault. Reversus production much better. Wait till next year. Weather was bad. Red's were playing.
You guys seem to be pretty accomplished at calling names. It's a shame you never learned common respect in your apparently sad lives. Or does it mean that no one is entitled to an opinion if it is not in agreement with yours? If that is the case, then you two sound a lot like our current pres.
None of this matters in the long run. The IRL is pretty much dead. They will stumble through a 2010 season that will make this one look like a zenith year, then stagger into May 2011, then the plug will be pulled.
along with her sponsors....
The IRL: After Danicles, lights out
I'm guessing you are a 40-50ish bible beater right wing nut who gets his or her feelings hurt a lot.
What is your Crack Forum name?
The IBJ should be talking about it every day!
I'm guessing you are one of the enablers like Indyboi and Berwickgirl!
You are showing your true colors. One would assume that for showing common respect, the assumptor must be 40-50 and/or a bible beater as you call it. So then the assumptor concludes that anyone under 40 and cares not about faith and values also has no knowledge or training in showing common respect. Wow, guess that shows where our once great country is heading if you are a representative of how youth is these days. Or, perhaps you are just a mouth will very little upstairs?
We'll let the readers decide.
Lost in space's wittle feewings are hurt again.
You chose to follow TG and now you are giving me a hard time because of it.
WAAAAAAAAAAA!!
Are you Scott Gates or Mike Condre?
Not only are you deficient at treating people with common courtesy, but you also are clueless at interpreting what others say. I said nothing about the IRL, Tony George or anything associated with racing in general. I merely commented on the type of person that only knows how to belittle and slander.
You establishing the point that other readers have already determined for themselves - you are merely a mouthpiece with little or nothing to back it up.
Here's hoping you can find something in this world to focus on that is positive. If not, enjoy the rest of your life as the bug on Tony George's windshield.
Open Wheel and IMS have done nothing but get run in the ground at the hands of Anton.
Never forget. NEVER.
Danger Will Robinson, danger!!!!!!
NEver forget
Too much TV Land for you. You're headed for Deep Space Nine.
Looks like the Centienal Indy 500 in 2011 will have to be a NASCAR Truck Race.
I think you are confusing the term deciphering with making pathetic excuses for failure.
Perhaps you can explain to the readers how a ... becomes retarded? Apparently, you are another of the posters here that are first to defame with vile attributes. Is there any more hope for you than there is for Tony George? Would you like paper or plastic?
Oh, DaHooey, tell your friend, Metcalfe, that if his head had been in Kanaan's helmet when he crashed at Indy, it would likely have exploded. You know why.
Sound the same to me. If confused, just look in the mirror.
the IRL: how LOW can they go!? :lol:
I am nothing more than a figment of your imaginary friend. Here's hoping that you don't grow to hate each other as much as you hate someone that you have no control over. Not very quick to get over that are you? Just like you don't care to answer questions asked of you. No surprise there friends.
Apparently, the only place in the world that you can have any imaginary affect is on these posts. Makes you feel like having your name in lights, doesn't it? You get to feel more power with each reply. It's always all about you, don' you agree. You and TG are more alike than you care to admit. But, hey, that's life. Enjoy yours.
They can talk all they want about the Mid-Ohio race and its camping crowd, and Dixon's stunning runaway victory, and the color and excitement of natural terrain road racing, and all that BS. But the fatc of the matter is, Indy Car racing does not even warrant a small blip on the radar screen of sports anymore. It is entirely a minor league affair.
Hey reVersus how did that plan to use the stretch of races on ESPN/ABC to increase your viewership and advertising numbers work out?
Readers, you have to know why someone would willingly call themselves DA HOOEY. He is full of himself. And that leaves very little cranial space for fully understanding that which is around him, be it people, places or things.
I can't remember, is the Denver street race the weekend after the irl* race at Disney or is it the weekend before the irl* race at Michigan?
Even when you're right, how you handle it can be wrong. These guys apparently never got that far in school. Poor girlymen!
the IRL: only sport around where .14 is a winner. :lol:
As for the IRL's TV ratings I don't pay the upcharge for comcast's sports package so that pretty much seals the deal for me -- wouldn't surprise me if a certain corporation worked out a deal to get VS on basic cable packages (maybe an article in the future from you?). When kids' activities and honey-do's don't have me going in other directions I do try to catch the race when broadcast on ABC but turn off the sound...man I wish Jenkins (and bring back Bobby Unser!) was on the mic. I also watch NASCAR, F1 and many others as time allows.
2) Who plops down on the couch and thinks, hmmm...what's on Versus right now?
3) Who are these people who make fun of each other on posts all day? Shouldn't they be out a rainbow rally or an Obama health care conference?
Fix it? Sure. I'll take a stab at that. American drivers mostly. On oval tracks. Indy Cars with 800 horsepower and flat bottoms. 10 race season tops. A tight rule book that supports run what ya' brung as long as it stays within set safety parameters. You can't play if what you brung costs over $200 grand. Don't tell Offy to go stick it, like the IRL did. And accept that now and again bad crap happens. Motors blow, cars crash, drivers can get hurt or worse, a foreigner may come in once in awhile and school the Americans, girls won't win races, and hardly anybody will watch anythign but the Indy 500. The driver's comments have to get beeped out now and then when a race is on TV instead of the usual The Venom boys really worked hard today. And some races will have 20,000 fans, some will have 90,000 fans.
Steets are for passenger cars to use to get to oval tracks. Road course are for Piltoi-wearing pansies who pee pee their panties. Indy Cars are for balls-out bad asses from Bakersfield to Bulgaria. Show up, sign up, shut up, speed up. Otherwise, go spray champagne on the puzzy podium in front of the paddock.
Thank you COUNT DUMB A**
I didn't read it somewhere else. Nice try. I just got off the phone with my mistress' ex, an IRL exec, and he said the Versus number for Mid-O was just above Zero. So take that Ho.
You guys seem to be pretty accomplished at calling names. It’s a shame you never learned common respect in your apparently sad lives
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Thank you COUNT DUMB A**
You're right, I shoudn't have said that. Nonetheless, that is what usually happens to our dealings with others when they turn out to be self-admitted frauds and liars. That is where the Count stacks up by his own admittance. Repeated posings as insightful and knowledgeable led me to anger. For that, I apologize.
For that, I apologize
Now you're calling names and saying that you shouldn't call names all in one post.
You're credibility is non-existent. There's an old saying L in S: when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Perhaps you didn't quite understand. The Count admitted to being a fraud and liar by his own post. If you don't recall, this is someone that posed as a team owner and therefore knew firsthand, so he/she said, what was going on (hence fraudulent representation and dishonest statement). Those were his/her own admissions. Therefore those aren't names, those are self appointed descriptors. He put himself/herself in that hole.
That, sir, has no effect on my credibility.
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