Comcast Xfinity, NASCAR in talks for secondary series title deal

Jeffrey00 said:
Most of this can be covered with a one hour nightly TV show. As far as the games a week I was asking because I actually don't know. If they had a game every night that would be awesome, and almost justify a 24/7 TV network. However the NFL Network, which I do watch, only has one game a week. Sure they have their Sunday coverage, nightly talk show, and replay games throughout the week, but I am not sure that is enough for a 24/7 network. Just my thoughts.
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Right now, other than NFL AM and NFL Total Access it's basically a bunch of biographies and documentaries. Then during the season they replay a good number of games. I haven't caught much of NHL Network but at least MLB Network and NBA TV can say they do nightly whiparound coverage, and I know all three get to broadcast a handful of playoff games. The thing with those leagues is that they have so few games on national TV relative to the entire schedule that a league-oriented network is almost needed.
 
That is true. MLB, NHL, and NBA all rely very heavily on regional sports networks, as do college athletics.
 
Spike said:
Xfinity is such a stupid name.
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Yep, they had to do it for the same reason other companies have to change their names, i.e. their service and products become so crappy that they give themselves a bad name and have to change their names to something different. They do this in hopes that customers won’t realize that with a different name, they are still the same lousy company as they had been before.

Examples: “R.J. Reynolds Tobacco” changes their name to “Altria”, “ValuJet” changes to “AirTran”, “Comcast” changes to “Infinity”, etc.
 
If Comcast and Time Warner Cable really do merge, and Comcast absorbs the TWC sports networks and rebranding them as Comcast SportsNet affiliates, I hope that Comcast uses the TWC sports graphics packages. Time Warner Cable's blow Comcasts out of the water.
 
Time Warner cable sucks. Terrible, outdated, refurbished cable boxes.
HD box & remote $12.25
HD DVR box & remote $11.25
DVR Service (WTF?) $12.99
Almost $37.00 for junk.
Programming $64.49
Sports pkg. $8.99
ZERO movie channels. But I do get about 30 Spanish speaking channels (which is awesome because I'm Irish.)
Two years and I've probably been through at least 10 DVR boxes.
 
I know nothing of their cable service, but I do know their sports channels, both in commentary and presentation, are much better than both Comcast and FOX.
 
What I find interesting about this is that Comcast has 100% ownership in NBC Universal , so think about that one, one of the broadcast partners could be owned by the one of the series sponsors , I am not sure if thats good or bad right now .
 
jws926 said:
What I find interesting about this is that Comcast has 100% ownership in NBC Universal , so think about that one, one of the broadcast partners could be owned by the one of the series sponsors , I am not sure if thats good or bad right now .
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Well look at the ISC relationship. NASCAR is all about special interest nowadays.

Just thinking here.. Comcast Cup sounds so much better than the 'Comcast Xfinity Series/cup' if we are stuck with this ****, atleast let it roll off the tongue and include "cup" in the name. It's really the only respectable thing to call them now, cup cars.
 
DUN24 said:
Just thinking here.. Comcast Cup sounds so much better than the 'Comcast Xfinity Series/cup' if we are stuck with this ****, atleast let it roll off the tongue and include "cup" in the name. It's really the only respectable thing to call them now, cup cars.
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But this is about the Nationwide series . Not the Cup series .
 
toledo47 said:
But this is about the Nationwide series . Not the Cup series .
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Oh yeah. Duhr.
Forgot about what I read yesterday. Hell, didn't read the thread title just now.. Lol.
 
Spike said:
There isnt enough content for a NASCAR network.
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There is plenty of content to last a few months but it would degenerate into repeats, reality shows and infomercials just to try to break even. NASCAR is too narrow of an audience to support an entire network.
 
FTR I absolutely hate Comcast and everything they stand for. They have the absolute worst customer service of any company in the country and have been a staunch supporter of anything that restricts internet development and growth. The USA has the most overpriced and slowest internet in the developed world thanks to Comcast and TWC.
 
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