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Old 05-06-2007, 03:46 PM
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as for the telecast...maybe i'm wrong, but i just tire each year of some 'tearjerk' story being included. it's like they go out of their way to find some human interest story. i'd rather they show a couple minutes on each horse, key races, show the jock and trainer.....it's supposed to be entertaining, not a soap opera.


but i could be wrong....
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Old 05-06-2007, 04:31 PM
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as for the telecast...maybe i'm wrong, but i just tire each year of some 'tearjerk' story being included. it's like they go out of their way to find some human interest story. i'd rather they show a couple minutes on each horse, key races, show the jock and trainer.....it's supposed to be entertaining, not a soap opera.


but i could be wrong....
i agree completely. however...

the kentucky derby is a distraction for most americans. less intersting than american idol and the latest story about paris or brittany.

the network plays to their audience. or just under their audience because like menken said, no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the american public.

this is a broader audience than any other race in america. so they aim lower.

despite the passion you might infer from this board, with it's self selected membership, most people hardly registered that there was a horse race saturday.

that a network would be jumping up and down, waving it's arms in the air, trying to get a story that might interest joe or jane six pack is only to be expected. they want a bigger audience.

i'm fairly cynical about the likelyhood of a handicapper-centric broadcast appealing to a nation looking for distractions.
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