publicity

[high edge]

On tv the other morning there was interviews and some action of a game informing the viewers that the Netball season is about to start.Now i have nothing against netball fair play to them getting this coverage on main stream tv  BBC. Got to ask were  is the public relations officer regards to getting speedway a mention,if a sport like netball can do it so should speedway or have we sunk so low in the sporting world. Also i would like to see more crowd involvement lets get the old war cries back every team had one and it gets people interested when i was a supporter at Belle Vue when i was younger it was a highlight of the meetings shouting for your team with a war cry it made us feel part of the team,bring them back then instead of the crowd looking miserable between races get them doing something to keep the atmasfear going.

[mikebv]

7 hours ago, high edge said:

On tv the other morning there was interviews and some action of a game informing the viewers that the Netball season is about to start.Now i have nothing against netball fair play to them getting this coverage on main stream tv  BBC. Got to ask were  is the public relations officer regards to getting speedway a mention,if a sport like netball can do it so should speedway or have we sunk so low in the sporting world. Also i would like to see more crowd involvement lets get the old war cries back every team had one and it gets people interested when i was a supporter at Belle Vue when i was younger it was a highlight of the meetings shouting for your team with a war cry it made us feel part of the team,bring them back then instead of the crowd looking miserable between races get them doing something to keep the atmasfear going.

The most despised person at Borussia Monchengladbach?

The one who shouts...

"Give us a B!"....

The sport is tiny, with no major sponsors, an ageing white middle aged, and above demographic fanbase, hardly any competitor's, and an operating model ran with a credibility rating akin to pro Wrestling... 

A credibility rating which reduces any silverware success to fhe level of "Sunday League" sports who have a similar "lets bring in ringers" philosophy...

Eg Thank you NKI for playing a significant role in Belle Vue becoming Champions, but Boool!!! For Bomber for helping Ipswich beat the Aces in the semi the year before...

Before he then helped Sheffield beat Ipswich in the final.. .

All played out in a wide ranging level of stadium standards and comfort, often miles away from what a 1995 audience, let alone a 2025 audience, would expect...

Good luck with selling that product...

Cannot see anyone pitching it on Dragons Den..

 

 

 

[Wee Eck]

The Premiership media launch is at Oxford on 23 March. Sounds similar to last year with plenty of riders - in race suits - attending and opportunities for interviews with everyone involved. 
From all accounts, last year’s launch was well run and received and hopefully this will also apply this year especially with the venue being closer for the southern-centric media. 
 

[ch958]

warcries? embarrasing

mikebv hits the nails on the head

[FromBendThree]

Speedway is not one of the BBC’s sports, ie not one they broadcast.
 

Sport, as pointed out above by Mikebv has wrong demographics for Beeb.

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

British speedway has 2 sets of problems, 1 what happens inside the sport. 2 what happens outside the sport, inside Phil morris is trying to sort but in reality people are not not going because of what happens in the sport. A good promoter will sell a turd to a sewage works, this leads to what is happening outside the sport and it’s perception and consciousness of the public and standing in the community and to be frank it has none and that’s never going to be sorted by anybody who has any sort of stake in the game and as I come to learn in recent years some of the people within the game are putting it mildly not the best to be associated with speedway 

Edited 5 hours ago by THE DEAN MACHINE

[Chris116]

I used to be involved in the promotion of one of the stock car organisations and used to get onto both local BBC and commercial radio stations on a fairly regular basis. I also know that at least two other local promotions were also successful in getting on the local radio stations. Providing you didn't just make it a free advert and gave them a story about local drivers with reference to recent results, then even the BBC stations would accept mention of forthcoming meetings where the drivers you had mentioned would be in action again.

Speedway would be a lot easier with the team format at most meetings meaning you are automatically talking about something local even if the riders come from the four corners of the world. It does however mean you have to cultivate interest from one of the presenters and give them information on a regular basis. The promotion I worked for had two tracks in the same area so I only ever mentioned one track on the local BBC station and the other track on the local commercial station, that way both stations were happy to interview me every two or three weeks during the season.