To bring you back on thread, which is maybe the reason for your post being modified by ADMIN, but do you think that wider TV coverage would be advantageous to sponsors of teams? If no then why not? Simple question really.

Yes it may have a slight impact but only if edited and not live. After speaking to a sponsor of a TT race over this issue of live broadcasting the event, his response was that they would not sponsor an event that had the possibility of their company being exposed to the possibility of a fatality being shown. They same company do plenty of advertising on TV and although their adds show the result of an accident it never shows the true picture. A good example of this is the type of pictures shown on fag packets in the far east, they are very graphic and upsetting and have resulted in people turning their backs of smoking.