NASCAR Will Race- With No Spectators

Bassman2003 said:
I guess they need to take it slow and there is always the fear of litigation lurking around every corner.
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Yes. Corporations are puckered, to say the least. My producer is actually producing Sunday remotely(besides cell phone and email, they will have real-time access to our feeds, etc. from their home), because they do not want them to fly and another producer that is within driving distance, they did not want them staying in a hotel. Plus, it limits the number of people around each other. It's just me and my reporter on-site(do it all the time, anyway). We will drive in seperately and can not sit/be in the same vehicle together while there, as well as wearing masks, etc.
 
DLD said:
.... PS. I went to Publix today. Bought some food, including baked chicken. Left chicken there. It may have coughed.
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So, been thinking about going back tomorrow, showing them the receipt and blaming the bag boy.

At ~ 9 PM, the phone rings. "It's the front door security. Do you leave a bag with chicken outside?" - "Uh, I thought I left it at the store" - "No, we have it. You can pick it up at the desk".

The actual chicken bag inside the plastic bags was opened. I figure they wanted to know that it wasn't a bomb or something. The weather was rather cold today. It rained over the last two days. I put a few pieces into a countertop oven. It came out pretty good.
 
Run&Gun said:
Yes. Corporations are puckered, to say the least. My producer is actually producing Sunday remotely(besides cell phone and email, they will have real-time access to our feeds, etc. from their home), because they do not want them to fly and another producer that is within driving distance, they did not want them staying in a hotel. Plus, it limits the number of people around each other. It's just me and my reporter on-site(do it all the time, anyway). We will drive in seperately and can not sit/be in the same vehicle together while there, as well as wearing masks, etc.
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That is a lot of hurdles. Business as usual seems pretty far into the future.
 
Bassman2003 said:
That is a lot of hurdles. Business as usual seems pretty far into the future.
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It’s going to be tough trying to change what is essentially reflex and muscle memory of things we’ve done for decades. I’ve also been told we are more or less the test bed for the rest of the company to see if things go well and they can have a path to “opening back up”, so to speak.
 
groveChuck said:
Aren't most, if not all, sports experiences of the actual competition "better"- in terms of seeing what's going on, what you may have missed and getting the micro/macro level- on TV, with a dozen-plus cameras, slo-mo, reaction shots, etc?

The "fan experience" is probably as much about the psychology of being with 50-80,000 others- all united, or mixed rivalries- and drunk, as much as the event.

Can you think of a sport where the sport is absolutely better in person than on your big screen at home?

Don't say chess, DLD... :grin:
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Yes, but the gulf between what you see and experience in person versus the TV I think is much, much wider in something like NASCAR. I get that it's more of a social event for the fans, but I don't think it impacts the races one bit if fans aren't there, while I think the absence of a cheering crowd does have an effect on the players of other sports that may effect the outcome.
 
Many restaurants are installing plastic partitions in between tables. Technically speaking, it can be done between seats at the arenas too, indoor or outdoor. But it might be done only at the pricier seats.
 
Fan reaction is what made it even more memorable.

Steve Wilson, on the mic for BBC with Martin Keown, also does play-by-play for the ages.

 
Yeah see - if you had fans with webcam feeds for NASCAR, you could have someone in the control room editing in some of the best reactions. It would be difficult but it would add to the fun and you could actively choose who/what to show after the fact - no chance for pornographic material
 
There's precedent for that too, YouTube is littered with "reaction videos" where people film themselves reacting to something on TV and then sharing it. Apparently there's quite a large audience for that kind of thing.

It's also been done forever on something like the draft or NCAA Tournament selection shows, they cut to the team's family or to the team's watch party to get their reactions...
 
Barry_Green said:
There's precedent for that too, YouTube is littered with "reaction videos" where people film themselves reacting to something on TV and then sharing it. Apparently there's quite a large audience for that kind of thing.

It's also been done forever on something like the draft or NCAA Tournament selection shows, they cut to the team's family or to the team's watch party to get their reactions...
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Will be interesting to watch the evolution of all of this.
 
The problem with a "few' vs. "many" is that there are far fewer choices off a webcam vs. a filled up stadium. That Mineirão stadium in Belo Horizonte had around 60,000 fans at the game, so a director with 30 or so camera operators can usually pick the best of the best.

And live is still live.


And then there is the Catch.

 
Belarus is wide open. No masks. No distancing. Foreign visitors welcome after a 14 day quarantine. Bald and Bankrupt is back in production. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_UAkHQFcgA

Bald and Bankrupt gives one pause. One guy on his own gets one-sixth of the viewers (1.3 million views and counting) of the top rated show on network TV (Survivor final show - 7.69 million viewers).

He buys a cheap plane ticket, lives in sub-$20 hotel rooms, sells t-shirts and splits the revenue with no one. He doesn't even have a Patreon account or ask for Paypal. He has no clients making demands, no accounting to do, no waiting for customers to pay, no pressure (other than to get a show out), no script, no scheduling, no alarm clock, no w2s or 1099s. He's working and you're not. Go figure.
 
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After the race, Harvick said it wasn’t the same doing the burnout on the front stretch and then climbing out and there weren’t thousands of cheering, screaming fans.

I was there from about 7:00am yesterday and even without being allowed inside the actual track, it was very surreal, especially as someone that has covered the sport extensively since the 90’s, when every track was packed. My reporter was looking for a good way to convey the feeling/scene to someone and I said, “Do you watch the Walking Dead?”.
 
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