Elvis has left the building. The 2008 NASCAR season wrapped up on November 16 at the Ford 400 in Homestead, Florida, where the good news was that the Number 38 Ford Fusion finally managed to finish a race while sporting the bureaucratically text-heavy/graphics-free/black-and-white standards of its sponsor, the FCC.… Continue Reading
After a disappointing maiden appearance at Martinsville last month, the Number 38 FCC DIGITAL TV TRANSITION Ford Fusion came up short again in its sophomore run at the Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at the Phoenix International Raceway on November 9. But at least it went out in style.… Continue Reading
We offer no comment on the story (“FCC’s Martin Named ‘Porker of the Month’”), which appeared in TVNewsday on October 23. We do, however, observe that Commissioner Adelstein is quoted there as having said of the decision to sponsor the Number 38 Digital TV Transition Ford Fusion: “This doesn’t seem like the most efficient use of … Continue Reading
The headline on our update late last Friday (10/17) on L’Affaire NASCAR (“L’Affaire NASCAR: The Yellow Caution Flag Comes Out”) appears to have been more predictive than we imagined. On Sunday (10/19) at the TUMS QuikPak 500 in Martinsville, the eleventh caution flag of the afternoon came out in Lap 485 when the Number 38 … Continue Reading
Attentive readers of this blog probably noticed the posting below about the FCC’s sponsorship of the Number 38 Digital TV Transition Ford Fusion. And really attentive readers may have noticed that, in the accompanying graphic, it originally appeared that Commissioner Copps was riding shotgun while Chairman Martin did the steering. The graphic no longer includes Copps because … Continue Reading
With analog DTV shut down coming up fast, FCC looks for some "shut down" action of its own as it shoots for Victory Lane on the NASCAR circuit.… Continue Reading