The Announcers Thread

Charlie Spencer said:
So the over-the-air Fox broadcast network doesn't have the same ownership as the Fox Sports cable channel?
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The only thing sports related Disney bought from Fox was the regional sports channels. However, Trump's FCC forced Disney to sell those to Sinclair Broadcasting.

The Fox television network, Fox "News" Channel, Fox Sports, FS1, FS2, and Fox Business were not part of the sale. At the time, Fox Sports and Fox "News" were the only things the Murdoch Empire was interested in continuing.

The easiest way to put it is that Disney bought Fox's Hollywood division. One of the primary reasons was to get rights to Marvel properties which Fox still had the rights to (X-Men mainly).
 
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Now we know why NBC is shipping most of their Cup Series races off to USA.

Fox and NBC are clearly only interested in propping up their cable properties. In fact, as far as we know right now, the vast majority of the races carried by these companies will be exclusive to cable with no streaming component.

I hope the next contract is a mix of CW, TNT and Prime.
 
NBC is trying to get more people on Peacock. This is one way to do that. Fox is way behind on a streaming platform. They still rely on FS1 and a little on FS2. At least Fox is showing more Cup races in "4K". I'll take that any day.
 
FLRacingFan said:
I like this a lot, the font/italics on the current ticker don’t make for very good accessibility.
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Yeah I thought it looked pretty good. I liked the side by side graphic showing what position they were racing for so you can tell instantly where that is happening in the field.
Fox has done a couple of new things that I hope carry over to the other broadcasts. On replays many times they highlight the car involved with a yellow beam so you can pick it out from the crowd. The other is printing out the radio talk on the screen between the crew and the driver.
 
MRM said:
NBC is trying to get more people on Peacock. This is one way to do that.
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Races on USA are not available on Peacock.

In fact, NASCAR is NBC's only sports property that isn't carried on Peacock.

The goal is to get people to keep cable, especially since NBC is owned by Comcast, and watch on USA. I bet people would be ecstatic to pay $7.99/month for Peacock and get access to all the races.

NASCAR's 2025-2031 contract places more emphasis on cable than any other major league sport. Other leagues and conferences are signing with CW and ION to get more events on broadcast and trying to get every event available on streaming. NASCAR went the exact opposite direction and wanted to get more on cable. They just couldn't turn down the Amazon money.

MRM said:
Fox is way behind on a streaming platform.
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Fox has that deal with ESPN and WBD for a sports streaming service, but IDK if it'll take off. The lawsuits surrounding it are VERY legitimate. Fubo wanted to only carry live sports, but the same companies behind this proposed streaming service made Fubo carry the baggage of unwanted networks and charge more, just to turn around and launch Fubo's vision themselves.

StandOnIt said:
One can yap. This guy has good ideas for all of them
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This graphics concept is great, especially since it integrates CW's existing look into it. Everyone is forgetting that CW's coverage will be produced in its entirety by NASCAR.

I have a feeling Prime Video and TNT will be the ones to take NASCAR graphics packages to the next level.

FLRacingFan said:
I like this a lot, the font/italics on the current ticker don’t make for very good accessibility.
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I actually really liked Fox's graphics package from 2018-2021. It was very clean, smooth, easy to read, wasn't distracting. The new package is probably my least favorite graphics package of all time.
 
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Now who does TNT sign for play by play? I hope they keep it a 2 to maybe 3 man booth if its a former crew chief.
 
I hate to say but I immediately go to Twitter/X and just scroll my feed for post race comments from drivers as I follow most of the teams and the cup drivers as well as Bob, Weaver and a few others that get good post race comments. Crazy now we might actually get a race that goes over, Fox interviews the winner briefly and then off to a UFL on Fox game that nobody cares about unless you’re a degenerate gambler.
 
Are the advertising laws different on streaming? Example could we see a winston cup again?
 
Whiskyb said:
Are the advertising laws different on streaming? Example could we see a winston cup again?
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It's complicated, but the short version is we'll NEVER see Winston Cup again. Even if all the races were exclusive to streaming, the prohibition on advertising tobacco products still applies. Winston is never coming back and fans need to let it go. Tobacco companies don't even try to exploit potential loopholes.

The internet is the wild, wild west. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Texas, Utah and Virginia are the only states that are taking huge steps to regulate the internet, and they're doing it to legislate morality.
 
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Lmao I had no idea the "bring back Winston" people existed post 2006ish.

If anything you'll see a marijuana premier sponsor in the next decade or so
 
FLRacingFan said:
WOW. They really got the rights for another seven years and immediately stopped trying. No effort whatsoever.
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I don't know if NASCAR will ever have a daily show again, but who knows.

CW could revive Inside NASCAR (show that used to air on Showtime). They do have Inside the NFL and an Inside NASCAR revival is right in their wheelhouse.

TNT Sports might try something too. WB Discovery wants TruTV's primetime lineup to be TNT Sports programming, but TNT is about to lose the NBA. And NHL does NOT come with a large audience. They might gamble and go all in on NASCAR.
 
Im not a bring winston back guy, just used it for a example. Maybe the controversial marijuana sales would have been a better fit
 
Whiskyb said:
Im not a bring winston back guy, just used it for a example. Maybe the controversial marijuana sales would have been a better fit
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Yeah I caught your drift. The Xfinity series that has the drivers saying my car is as fast as Xfinity 10G is pretty close in today's world on a much smaller scale.
 
It's probably cause I don't feel well but the truck booth was particularly on my nerves tonight. More than usual.
 
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