Why isn't Lemons on TV? (Page 2 of 2)

I think this would be the best place for it, to be honest.  What's dirtier than a Lemons car anyway?

That, or some sort of quickie like a Junkyard Mega Wars kind of show.

instead of having them build one, invite them onto an existing team (one that has a good chance of finishing well like the 928), with each one on a different team.

There is a show on the speed channel that would be perfect to show Lemons.  Its called "Lucas oil's On The Edge"

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Everybody has already covered why Fox, er, Speed, is unlikely to do this. Y'all turn in the wrong directions sometimes, and none of you are sponsored by maxipads or a popular watery beer product. So that leaves the DIY route. You're all DIY folks, right?

Having recently been involved with a motorsports event that we wanted to televise, I can tell you what the only realistic route is to make this happen.

1. Spend a bunch of your own money to produce it.
2. Pay to have it aired.
3. Split commercial revenues with the TV channel.

The channels will tell you how much commercial time per hour you have to allow for (as a minimum requirement). You will be encouraged to find your own advertisers, for obvious reasons. You get to keep more of the money that way. If they have to find the advertisers, you'll be lucky if you break even.

The easiest channels to work with are Versus, HDTheater, and the other new guys that are big enough to still have national reach. I don't remember the pricing off hand, but I want to say Versus wanted something like $30,000 for a one-hour slot at a reasonably decent time of day, and it would be shown X times during the next Y months, etc.

Oh yeah, and there is a fairly large lead time. It was something like four months from completion to air date.

It's a giant pain in the Nomex.

I bet you could maybe get HDNet to bite on something like this. Lord knows they have plenty of airtime to fill and not enough content. I think I saw them airing some Spec Pinata races last weekend along with Star Mazda, which is basically 15 year olds in open wheel cars. It was a field of like 12 cars. Yawn. We're tons more interesting than that. Well, I'm not, but the rest of you guys are.

I say soap opera, As The Wrench Turns.

There was a show call like Carapocalypese it was a a crazy demo derby with themes every week.

I think real tv channels kill sports.  Desert racing is covered but only the parts people pay for  I remember GT Bicycles paid like $30k for 1 minute of camera helicopter above them.

I let Good Morning America use one of my cars .

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story … amp;page=1

I think TOP GEAR would be great in Lemons just think of the crazy shit the producers and Judges  would do to everyone.