VOL. 52 ISSUE 40 OCTOBER 6, 2015 P87
IT'S HARD
WORK. IT'S
LONG DAYS,
LONG NIGHTS,
BUT AT THE END
OF THE DAY THE
FEEDBACK WE'RE
GETTING FROM
THE FANS IS THAT
THEY'RE ABLE TO
WATCH THE SPORT
AND SEE MORE OF
IT THAN THEY'VE
EVER REALLY BEEN
ABLE TO SEE.
forward from AMA Pro Live to
Fanschoice.
"We built this production unit
that launched the first two events
on Fanschoice, the Daytona flat
track on Thursday night and then
the Daytona 200 on Friday we
started doing coverage of 2014,"
he said. "NASCAR stepped in
and really helped build the infra-
structure. They taught me pro-
duction principles and they've
loaned a lot of their expertise
and their personnel to help us
understand what we're doing on
the production side of things.
That was something that I didn't
have any background in at all.
"So they helped us under-
stand that and they still do. The
NASCAR media group up in
Charlotte, they've been an im-
mense help in really understand-
ing what we should be doing
outside of just live streaming
or putting cameras up. Really
understanding the principles of
production."
If you watched Fanschoice
from the beginning, the show
made a noticeable jump in its
second year; it transformed
(Left) Fanschoice also airs the
support classes of MotoAmerica, the
newly-branded National Superbike
Championship, even though the
road racing series is no longer
under the DMG umbrella.
A move up from
their debut season,
the series hauler
was turned into
a dedicated
production room
for 2015.