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Originally Posted by LTb1ow
All about the money IMO.
"Getting to those numbers, the NHRA’s qualifying and eliminations broadcasts have averaged a .02 rating and little more than 300,000 viewers and a .03 rating and just under 400,000 viewers, respectively. Likewise, Street Outlaws, which airs on Monday nights on Discovery, has averaged in the neighborhood of 1.5 million viewers and a 0.6 rating. That’s more than four times the number of Americans tuned in to watch the one-hour program on Discovery versus those watching NHRA drag racing."
http://www.dragzine.com/project-silv...ra-broadcasts/
I would say the NHRA is wanting a piece of the pie and if one is to believe cast member posts on YB, it seems they asked to get involved with the show and were told to F off early on.
But unlike horrbilby boring drag racing on late night ESPN, what other show show cases high HP drag cars to such success? While it pretends to be something illegal, its drawing a ton of attention to the car aspect of things. I appericate that. Much better than another housewives of kazxaskstan. |
Those numbers in the Dragzine article are a little old. The highest watched episode this season reached like 2.5 million viewers I believe, which is nuts. You really just need to take the show for what it is. It has opened up the car and racing community for everyone. Little kids have something to watch every week and grow up wanting to build an old car. The show has drug numerous old timers out from the bushes and has them building cars to race again. I have noticed a crazy turnaround in the racing and car scene where I live now in the last year and a half when the show really took off.
Obviously some of the scenes are scripted, and they are never really dodging the cops, but they need to make the show appeal to a wide range of people, that's just tv. The racing itself though, is 100% real, so it keeps its authenticity there. From the second they line up to the second the cross the finish line, it is all legit. I got invited to go to the episode filming for the race that airs next week, but had other commitments for that weekend already. Everyone involved really are a bunch of good people and a real benefit to the racing world