Supercross LIVE! Webcast Provides Only Live Race Call from Vegas
Exclusive Online Video Content Posted All Weekend Long from Las Vegas
AURORA, Ill. (May 1, 2008) – Fans not fortunate to attend the Monster Energy® AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, season finale at Las Vegas’ Sam Boyd Stadium on May 3, can catch the pre-race press conference and Saturday night’s race on Supercross LIVE!, the widely-popular live webcast on www.SupercrosssOnline.com. In addition, SupercrossOnline.com will continue to post exclusive video content from Sam Boyd Stadium just as the site a has done from every race all season.
Supercross LIVE! will kick off its coverage from Las Vegas with the live audio webcast of the pre-race press conference from the press box in Sam Boyd Stadium on Friday, May 2 1:00 p.m. EST/10:00 PST, where the series’ top riders will be interviewed by local, national and industry media. Yamaha’s Chad Reed, of Tampa, Fla., Honda’s Kevin Windham, of Centreville, Miss., and Davi Millsaps, of Cairo, Ga., will be featured as well as recently crowned AMA Supercross Lites champions Honda’s Trey Canard, of Elk City, Okla., and Yamaha’s Jason Lawrence, of Carlsbad, Calif.
Then on Saturday, Supercross LIVE! hosts Jason Weigandt and Jim Holley will deliver the only live play-by-play race call of all the evening’s races, with ex-supercross stars and industry personalities in the booth for additional interviews and color commentary.
“Supercross LIVE! continues to grow each and every season,” said Ken Hudgens, vice president of marketing for Live Nation Motor Sports, Inc. “This year more than three-quarters-of-a-million listeners will have logged into Supercross LIVE!. The show is very important in building our fan base while literally bringing supercross into the homes of fans all over the world.”
Each Supercross LIVE! webcast features a live race call, a pre-race show, a post-race show, post-race press conference, on-air industry guests and celebrities, in-depth interviews, promotions, call-ins and more. Archived broadcasts are also available at www.SupercrossOnline.com.
For more information on the Monster Energy® AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, please log on to www.SupercrossOnline.com. For all media requests, please contact Denny Hartwig dennyhartwig@livenation.com or 630-566-6305.
