Posted on 05/31/2009 8:38:34 AM PDT by Dawebman
As we NASCAR fans settle in for another great Sprint Cup race with Miles the Monster at Dover today, we bid a fond adieu to D.W. and his famous "BOOGITY, BOOGITY, BOOGITY ... LET'S GO RASING BOYS!" But we shed no tears over the year-long hibernation of Fox Sports' animated irritant called "Digger."
Gunga, gunga la gunga.
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Whether or not you are a NASCAR fan this should serve as a lesson in how Broadcast Row views you as an audience member. In a word, childish.
It’s why the greatest communications medium in the history of man (prior to the Internet anyway) was almost immediately reduced to airing sitcoms, game shows, variety shows and the like. Those in charge of it have abused its power and reach for decades and in more sinister cases have abused its lack of competition which is why we now are faced with multiple generations who are saddled with knowledge a mile wide and an inch deep.
David Hill comes across as a blokey Aussie but his tenure at Fox Sports has been marked by the proliferation of the most maddening and juvenile rubbish dancing across your screen complete with Warner Bros. sound effects, happy music played to excess etc. They have turned a 2.5-hour football game into a 3.5-hour marathon of ADD-addled nonsense wherein the trivial and sensational are celebrated which is why certain underachieving ‘star’ receivers get loads of airtime for running their mouths rather than pass patterns.
In interviews Hill is very quick to pat himself on the back for these ‘innovations’ but he seems to have forgotten than somewhere behind his on-screen ads, promos and animations that there is a live sporting event to broadcast.
Good riddance to both Digger and DW. I liked DW as a racer, but he is downright annoying as an announcer with his tired, old “boogity, etc.” and his KyBu worshiping.
Fox used to be the better NASCAR network, but not anymore.
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