TViewer wrote:
You will get a 'summary' of one hour (1/3 of which will be commercials and perhaps another 40% showing 'special' situations or personal interviews and other stuff involving 'charity' or Phiddipeses-type runners) and, if lucky, maybe 10-15 minutes of actual race footage.
Once upon a time they covered it live, but the ratings apparently just aren't there. Go figure: NASCAR gets ratings (watching crashes, near crashes and fights & feuds between drivers and crews) and people watch machines going 'round in a circle for hours, but marathons/road races do not.
honestly, you needledicks complaining about auto racing as though it is some sort of either/or proposition with regard to roadrace coverage are clueless. not all race fans are mouth breathers. some of us have mechanical/scientific/technical backgrounds and love all auto racing for being the fascinating (to us) exhibition that it is.
if you want to talk about some BRAINLESS s*** that inexplicably gets watched by millions ("instead" of athletics) why not cite the plethora of "reality" shows or garbage like lost, or csi, or oc, for which i have seen numerous threads on this very site.
you may hate racing because you don't understand it and are overly attuned to hillbillies and crashes, but that has nothing to do with marathon coverage or the lack there of. open your mind a little bit.