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Super Cup Stock Car Series Looking
Forward to Potential Re-alliance with Sopwith TV for Coverage of
2014 SCSCS Season
Skyland,
North Carolina (September 17, 2013) - The checkered flag waved the finish of the 2013 season
only days ago and already series
officials are readying for the 2014 campaign. A preliminary schedule
draft has already been posted to the Super Cup website with
confirmations of tracks and most dates expected in the coming
weeks. Additionally, SCSCS is again discussing with previous
partner, Sopwith TV, the potential of broadcasting the 2014
schedule.
A similar
partnership during 2011-2012 saw the Super Cup Stock Car Series
enjoy national television coverage and web-based video broadcasting
in 2011-2012, and those programs which are still drawing an
enthusiastic response from auto racing fans.
Super Cup Series
Director Joe Schmaling is hopeful that plans to bring television
back to the series will be successful but cites that it can only
happen if the right package can be brought together. “If we can
find a way to make this work,” Schmaling said, “I'd like to do
it again. One hundred thousand viewers on Motorsportworld.tv is a
significant number. I'm happy about that. I don't believe it will take a lot to
make this happen. We are hopeful that a sponsor or sponsors
will recognize the tremendous value of this opportunity and step
up.”
Currently there are
five episodes airing on http://www.motorsportworld.tv/
which have now surpassed a cumulative total of 100,000 viewers. The
highest-rated Super Cup program to date is the 2011 telecast of the
Hickory event which has drawn nearly 35,000 race fans while other
Super Cup events average 20,000 per program. This is in addition to
a national television audience on TUFF TV, America One Sports and
Untamed Sports TV.
The viewership
reported by Motorsportworld.tv is not a demographic estimate or a
Nielson-style rating based on a sampling of the audience. Rather, it
is a specific count of individual viewers who have watched the
television program in a time frame of less than one year.
These numbers
compare favorably to several other similar race series which have
been online for a longer period, yet fail to pull the
viewers-per-annum of Super Cup racing.
The Super Cup TV
show was produced by Sopwith Motorsports Television Productions of
Indianapolis, which recently cemented an agreement to provide
motorsports programming to Time Warner Cable of Wisconsin. This
agreement was unrelated to Super Cup, but may open new doors for the
series in the near future.
“One element that
was missing from our 2011-2012 Super Cup TV package was a regional
carrier,” said Sopwith CEO Stephen Cox. “We had national
coverage, but a lot of Super Cup fans weren't in areas that allowed
them to watch it on TV so they had to turn to the internet.”
“Now that we've
formed our first relationship with Time Warner and are making
inroads with other major regional cable carriers, we will have a
realistic shot at bringing any future Super Cup programming directly
to fans in the Ohio/West Virginia/Pennsylvania area through their
own cable channels. That would give the series national coverage,
regional coverage and online coverage and be a much friendlier
package to race teams and their local sponsors.”
In addition to
100,000 online race fans, networks including TUFF TV and Untamed
Sports TV have openly supported Super Cup programming and welcome
its return.
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