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Paul ‘Burbo’ Burbidge Speedway Reporting Revolution on Twitter continues, part 4
28/12/2016
Drawing upon the full majesty of the 13 years of his ‘independent’ speedway reporting career, Bournemouth University’s finest media graduate and Britain’s speedway reporter extraordinaire Paul (Burbo) Burbidge’s digital social media profile continues to hollow out and infantalise the news content of the speedway reporting landscape. It is access all areas, “I write news for […]
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Monster Energy Speedway World Cup 2016 – horror UK television viewing figures
20/11/2016
If judged via the television audience figures for BT Sports Speedway broadcasts in the UK, the Monster Energy sponsorship of the 2016 Speedway World Cup has massively shrunk the popularity and interest amongst British speedway fans. Without BARB information for the EuroSport broadcast years of 2013-2015, it is hard to establish if the unmitigated disaster […]
Speedway Grand Prix strategy questioned by Monster Energy ahead of sponsorship negotiations
24/04/2016
Ahead of the likely renewal (on very favourable terms they completely dictate) of their headline sponsorship of the Speedway World Championship, Monster Energy’s Joe Parsons opened his contract renewal negotiations over the contract that expires during 2016 with pointed criticism of rights holder BSI/IMG’s SGP stadium venue strategy. With only compromised or embedded media outlets […]
Top 40 Total Speedway Grand Prix rider earnings 2005-2015
23/01/2016
Top 40 Speedway Grand Prix riders from 2005 to 2015, judged by $ prize money earnings (with thanks to Charles McKay)
Speedway Commentary Poem 1: Lines composed on the occasion of the inaugural Monster Energy Speedway World Cup Final at the National Speedway Stadium
31/07/2016
Pats his engines to say thank you That was breathtaking, breathtaking Criticism in the social media I’ve got 50p in my pocket With the steel shoe off his foot He will delight the huge crowd Gate 4 is a long way Harsh realities of speedway What do you expect to see? […]