So we all know that America’s Funniest Video’s apparently is more important than the last few laps of a hotly contested NASCAR race in the middle of a heated championship battle.
I want to take a quick look back at something I wrote in November of 2008 regarding Dave Moody from SIRIUS Satellite after that Phoenix network snafu:
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Dave Moody on SIRIUS NASCAR Channel 128 is having a field day with ABC.
They played clips of interviews with Jimmie Johnson and Jamie McMurray, both eliciting surprise in their interviews that the race was dissed by ABC when they went to AFV.
Then Moody’s radio show went through the news. As they sometimes do, they rerun the play-by-play call from Moody’s race coverage. In mid sentence of one stretch call, BAM, they cut away to the America’s Funniest Videos theme song.
LOL. Go Moody Go!
They’ve been having a bit of a field day with the ABC thing and Dave Moody has left it in no uncertain terms what he thought about the snaffle.
The viewers are being well represented. Dave Moody is on the job. He’s my fracking hero!
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For the new fans that are coming into the sport this year, let me demonstrate what I’m referring to:
During the NASCAR Phoenix race in November of 2008, it was down to approximately 20 or so laps to go when, ABC switched the race over to ESPN to finish out. If you were recording it, you were screwed. If you don’t have extended cable you were screwed. Yet ABC still thought they did a good job covering the event. … crickets.
” After two red flags, rain in Phoenix and 4 1/2 hours on ABC, we were still 34 minutes from the end of the telecast as it turned out. We told fans in the East and Central from the second red flag on that the race was moving to ESPN2. ABC’s entertainment viewers and NASCAR fans were both well served in a tough spot, and we are fortunate to have ESPN2 among our networks to serve the fans.”
It was quite the debacle that required ABC to make a public apology within the hour of the race’s end. And the fans’ ire of it went on for the rest of the ensuing week. It was doofy, that’s what it was. Doofy.
