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The Lost Monster Jam European Airings refers to a series of events that were broadcasted in various European countries but not on SPEED from 2006-2009 Between the mid to late 2000's, Monster Jam aired certain Monster Jam stadium events on TV in European countries. However, some of these airings have not resurfaced on the internet since their original broadcasts, thus making the lost European airings lost media. It is unknown exactly how many shows Monster Jam only aired internationally.

History and Search[]

On September 14th, 2009, YouTube user MonsterJamUnlimited, uploaded a 7-minute video of an international broadcast of Monster Jam World Finals 10 (presumably broadcast in a Dutch-speaking country due to its Dutch subtitles). This particular airing included rare footage of Captain’s Curse rolling over to the stands of the stadium, a crash that was censored in the original US airing and the DVD release of the event. This 7-minute snipbit of the broadcast is still up on YouTube and can be found by clicking here. While this event was not an exclusive broadcast in Europe, the footage of Captain's Curse's crash into the stands is only known to have been broadcast on this specific recording.

The second known upload of an internationally broadcasted Monster Jam event to YouTube was only 6 days later on September 20, 2009 when YouTube user mtcthor uploaded 2 compilation videos of 2 different European broadcasts, being Toronto 2009 and San Antonio 2009.

The fourth known upload of an internationally broadcasted Monster Jam event to YouTube was on April 4, 2013, when YouTube user Square One uploaded a music video titled "Monster Jam Greasing The Wheel", and is a compilation of crashes from various Monster Jam events. The video included a clip of a European broadcast, being Blue Thunder's rollover at Monster Jam's first Anaheim event of 2008, as well as Thor rolling over at Cardiff in 2007. Unfortunately, the full broadcasts of both shows are not known to be online at all, and it is not known where Square One found the clips.

The fifth known upload of an internationally broadcasted Monster Jam event to YouTube was some time in 2014, when YouTube user pita888 uploaded a full European airing of San Antonio 2007. The airing did not had have English commentary. Unfortunately, the video has since been removed due to a copyright claim from Feld Entertainment. However, pita888 uploaded another video titled “My Edited Video (MJ Freestyle Part 4)”. This video included clips from the aforementioned San Antonio event, as well as the Tampa 2007 and San Francisco 2007 events. Both of these shows were only shown briefly to the US audience, but this video shows that they were broadcast in Europe.

When asked in an August 2021 email to FELD about these episodes, FELD confirmed that they are aware of them and have discussed internally about releasing the airings and they consider it to be a good idea. Most likely the videos will be released in their original airing forms with Scott Douglass as the sole commentator. However, as of July 2022, still no episodes have been posted on Monster Jam's YouTube channel.

In April 2022, the 2009 event in Barcelona was discovered to have been uploaded in its entirety in June 2011 by user MohawkMarkus. Madrid 2011 show was also uploaded by the same user in August 2011, but only freestyle. In July 2013, Barcelona 2011 was fully uploaded, with racing being completed and freestyle being split into two parts. The event can also be found in full HD on 3Cat. These are the only European episodes available in full online.

Discovery[]

On July 3rd, 2022, Facebook user Liam Mann came forward claiming to have most of the airings. They would be released on August 8th.

Known Broadcasts[]

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Trivia[]

  • There were some noticeable differences in the style of the how the events were broadcasted.
    • Only the final rounds of racing were shown, but clips of other races were briefly shown during the start of the program after the intro.
    • All the freestyle runs were shown, though some were omitted completely, usually one or two runs that were really short and only resulted in low scores. Some trucks were also completely unacknowledged in the final scores table.
    • The runs were also shown out of order from how they actually went, the reason for this was likely to make the competitions look closer than they actually were.
    • Scott Douglass was the sole host and commentator, and his commentary was not live.
    • The transitional slides, driver and truck profile boxes and timer graphics were completely different.
    • The episodes all had a 30-minute run time, this included the ad breaks in the middle. Without ad breaks, all episodes roughly lasted around 25 minutes each.
  • Youtuber Taz91 has uploaded the recovered airings on Dailymotion found here: https;//www.dailymotion.com/Taz91/videos
  • Most, if not all, the European exclusive episodes consisted of the jumbotron footage that was streamed onto the video screens in the stadiums. Since the SPEED TV cameras were not present at said events, the jumbotron feed was the only recorded footage of the shows, leaving this as the only footage that could be shown on the TV broadcasts.
  • San Francisco 2007 was the only European episode to show the racing semi-finals, unlike the rest which only showed the finals. As the show was relatively short with only six trucks freestyling, the semi-finals were most likely included so the episode would fill its 30-minute runtime.
  • Cardiff 2007 was the only European episode to feature the jumbotron timer graphic. While all the other episodes featured a unique timer which appeared on screen halfway through each run, all freestyle runs from Cardiff featured the graphic from the 90-second start all the way until 0 (if trucks filled the entire clock).
  • The European broadcasts would actually serve as the TV debuts for some trucks and drivers, predating their SPEED debuts.
    • These broadcasts also featured TV appearances for trucks and drivers that never appeared on SPEED, as well as truck paint schemes that were never seen on TV.
  • Bravo 2 (UK), JIM (Belgium) and RTL7 (Netherlands) all aired the same style of episodes. RTL7's airings were identical to the original Bravo 2 broadcasts with the only minor change being the addition of Dutch subtitles, the reason for them being aired with the original English commentary is unknown. The JIM broadcasts featured music in the background throughout the episodes (possibly contributing to the channel's main program genre), as well as unique interviews with drivers conducted by Jan Van den Bossche.
  • The on-screen graphics that appeared at the start of each freestyle run sometimes misspelt driver's names or billed them from the wrong locations.
  • In the 2009 episodes, the graphics did not list the hometowns of the drivers. The reason for this is unknown.
  • The European episodes included appearances of trucks that never appeared on TV on SPEED in the United States (e.g. Renegade, High Anxiety, Freedom Force).

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