What a winter/spring of 2010 it's been for me, and for Carolinas Production Group as well as Visioncast.
We are already in high gear hosting our national shows and producing new seasons of coverage for
Mazda's Visit Florida Cup, part of the Star Mazda Championship, and our other projects.

We've been working closely with our partners at Mazda North American Operations for nearly a year to help launch TV coverage of the new Visit Florida Cup "championship within a championship", and our debut telecast begins airing this weekend on HDNet.  National and international syndication starts the following week.    We will air these shows in more than 110 million households in the US, Canada, Mexico, and around the world, via our new partnership with ESPN International.   Star Mazda is celebrating its 20th season in 2010.  It remains one of the major developmental open-wheel racing series in the world and is now at the top of the Mazdaspeed Motorsports Development Ladder system.

This week we begin our third season of shooting and producing coverage of the Playboy Mazda MX 5 Cup as well, one of our core projects for our platinum client, Mazda.  I'll be joined again on the broadcasts by veteran road racer and analyst Elliott Forbes-Robinson, and pit reporter Derek Pernesiglio.   We have topped 75 million households in our MX 5 Cup distribution again this season on a variety of national and regional cable partners.   Look for our shows nationally on MASN and Comcast California via DirecTV and Dish Network, and on MavTV, AMG TV, and AmericaOne.  

You may also check out the telecast schedules for both the Star Mazda Championship and the MX 5 Cup on our expanded site, www.mazdaracing.tv.
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Earlier this year we produced and syndicated to more than 100 million households US and worldwide coverage of the groundbreaking ASA Transcontinental "Free State 500", the first American-style stock car race ever run in South Africa.  We sent our crew to Phakisa (Free State) in SA, to cover more than 30 stock cars doing battle on the 1.5 mile trioval there, built to mirror Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Our two-hour broadcast also broke new ground for CPG as we were able to strike a carriage deal with ESPN International for worldwide airings.

We're also working this season on a new short-track project, MustSeeRacing's Extreme Sprint Car Series.
This amazing brand of open-wheel racing will bring close-quarters sprint car action on paved tracks to a national TV audience for the first time.  These are winged sprint cars making 800 horsepower, and are capable of lapping half-mile tracks in less than 15 seconds.   We'll be hosting and distributing MSR's 10 telecasts for the next several seasons with the new year kicking off the first weekend of May at the legendary Salem Speedway.    Also included in the package is a two-hour telecast of the amazing Little 500 for sprint cars, 33 of these wild machines doing battle on the quarter-mile Anderson Speedway in Indiana.  They'll take the wings off for this historic event; I can't wait to be a part of it.

As always, we remain on the air on Sirius NASCAR Radio, Channel 128, also on XM 128, with our daily dose of "Tradin' Paint" from 11am to 3pm ET.  And we'll be back this year on the Carolina Panthers Radio Network (NFL), hosting the Panther Post Game  Show starting with preseason action in August.

New opportunities are presenting themselves daily, and we're extremely grateful.  Hope to see you on the TV, or the radio.