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(No official announcements yet) Big Apple buzz included the TV partnerships for 2007. Apparently, NASCAR has signed an eight-year deal across the board that will include FOX Sports, TNT and a reunion with ESPN/ABC. FOX will get the rights to the first half of the season, including the Daytona 500. TNT, a NASCAR partner for more than two decades, inherits the next part of the schedule, and ESPN/ABC picks up the final portion of the season, including the Chase for the NASCAR Nextel Cup. ESPN2 will cover the entire Busch Series schedule, providing much-needed continuity.

The return of ESPN promises fans a wide range of programming that was limited to Speed Channel under the current deal. We probably won't know for a while which announcers and analysts will end up where. For example, the NBC regulars can't discuss future opportunities until their contracts expire. Expect Rusty Wallace, who has lent his experience to TNT in the past, to find a role somewhere.(Sporting News)
 
I think this is good, glad ABC/ESPN is back, maybe we can get a decent NASCAR daily news show back like ESPN2 nite. I'm also glad NASCAR worked a way to keep TNT in the game, despite what people often say about NASCAR I think they do show loyalty.

Just get DirecTV Basic Plus, it's cheaper than cable and better plus you can get a TiVo and never miss a thing. :)
 
Is NASCAR still moving forward with their own channel? I don't see how they could fill up the broadcasting day. But, if they could figure how to sell the races it could be profitable.
 
Eagle1 said:
I think this is good, glad ABC/ESPN is back, maybe we can get a decent NASCAR daily news show back like ESPN2 nite. I'm also glad NASCAR worked a way to keep TNT in the game, despite what people often say about NASCAR I think they do show loyalty.

Just get DirecTV Basic Plus, it's cheaper than cable and better plus you can get a TiVo and never miss a thing. :)
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Yes they did find a way Eagle1... Them that pays the most money gets the deal.. THAT is the way they found. Good business would not allow lowering the price! So we now know who belly'd up with the money and who did not.
Betsy ;)
 
I understand that FOX will have the first 19 races. TNT will have the next 6 out of 7 --- then ABC will have the Brickyard, plus the final 10.

ESPN2 will carry the entire Busch year.
 
Eagle1 said:
Just get DirecTV Basic Plus, it's cheaper than cable and better plus you can get a TiVo and never miss a thing. :)
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That sounds great unless you are like me. I've got many TV's in this house with not one converter needed, including three VCR's not to mention the TV card in my computer downstairs. So, satelite TV just won't work with this guy. Besides, I also have broad band service with my cable company and also digital telephone service with them. My local telephone company has tried and keeps trying to get me to slow down my internet service with their DSL and to up my long distance cost by converting back to them, not to mention requiring me to buy all sorts of equipment that Direct TV won't give me so that when a storm comes along, I lose my TV signal. Nah, I think that I'll keep what I have and suffer the loss of Speed Channel. I've lived without that since it's inception and probably will never get it as long as they require a converter to receive it.

Oh yeah, do you realize that today's computer TV cards are very similar to TIVO in that you can pretty much set it up as you wish. Oh there are things you can't do with the computer that you can do with TIVO, but for recording, it's pretty much the same.

Sorry, this wasn't mean to be a rant about satelite TV, but it ended up being one. I also don't mean to sound as though I'm bashing anyone who has it. It's a great thing and for anyone having an RV, it's got to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. :)
 
Here are the particulars of the package:

•Fox, TNT and ABC/ESPN will divide the 36-race Nextel Cup schedule. ABC and the ESPN networks will show the Busch Series. Speed will continue to carry the Craftsman Truck Series races, although two will move to Fox.

•Fox will take a shorter Nextel Cup schedule than it currently has (13 races), but it receives exclusive rights to the Daytona 500, which it currently alternates with NBC. Fox will carry other Daytona Speedweeks events, including the Budweiser Shootout and Daytona 500 pole qualifying.

•TNT, NASCAR's longest-running broadcast partner, will take a six-race summer package that includes Daytona's Pepsi 400, which has been carried by NBC in recent years.

•Speed will carry Daytona's Twin 150-mile qualifying races and the Nextel All-Star Challenge and its companion event, the Nextel Pit Crew Challenge.

•Nextel Cup qualifying, practice and "happy hour" practice will be broadcast on a combination of Speed, ESPN and ESPN2.

ABC is the only network that has discussed talent, confirming Wednesday with the Associated Press that Jerry Punch will be part of the broadcast team. Punch began covering motorsports on "ABC's Wide World of Sports" in 1987 and has been involved in the Indianapolis 500 coverage since 1989.

"ABC Sports first exposed sports fans to the racing excitement of NASCAR in the 1960s, and ESPN and the sport grew up together in the 1980s and '90s. Our tradition is rich, and our future is bright,” said Bodenheimer.

To NASCAR, its drivers and fans we say, 'Welcome home, '"
 
I can see my degree in engineering is going to come in handy while trying to figure out what channel the race will be on. Could they make it anymore difficult?
 
sure they could. I didn't see CBS mentioned in there anywhere...but i think this is just getting too technical. after this contract(s) expires, what next? Animal planet (maybe the mexico road race from the wild dogs that run though), the history channel (a 5 hour pre-race with the history of the event), Telemundo, or maybe PBS?
 
Investors disappointed with NASCAR TV deal
Shares of track owners ISC, SMI take a hit
By JOE BEL BRUNO
The Associated Press


NEW YORK - International Speedway Corp., the corporate name behind 12 NASCAR tracks, felt Wall Street's disappointment Thursday over a new $4.48 billion television contract that some felt should have been significantly higher.

NASCAR announced late Wednesday an eight-year agreement with News Corp.'s Fox, Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN and ABC, and Time Warner Inc.'s Turner Sports. The deal - which trumps its previous $2.8 billion, six-year contract - runs through the 2014 season.

However, analysts expected an even higher price to televise NASCAR's major racing events - including Nextel Cup, Busch and Craftsman Truck series.

"While the overall TV contract is an increase over the previous one, we believe the announced contract is at the low end of expectations, and the Street will view this as a disappointment," Raymond James analyst Joseph Hovorka said in a report.

The average annual rights fee of the deal is $560 million, which is about 40 percent higher than the current contract. However, NASCAR said the first year of the contract will be worth between $470 million to $500 million - and increase between 3 percent and 5 percent annually.

Analysts said this is well below their projected $573 million in rights fees for NASCAR next year, and they had estimated 2007 would hit about $575 million. This caused at least two Wall Street securities firms to recommend selling shares of ISC.

Investors were quick to sell off shares of International Speedway, sending it to a new 52-week low. Shares dropped $5.70, or 10.8 percent, to $47.10 at the close of trading on the Nasdaq, after earlier trading as low as $45.90. The previous year low was $48.97.

The stock is down 11 percent this year, however, it is now trading 22 percent behind its $60.59 high reached on April 5. Shares had traded at an all-time high of about $70 at the end of 1999.

It wasn't only International Speedway's stock that got slammed. Speedway Motorsports Inc., which owns six race tracks that host NASCAR events, also took a steep tumble in trading.

Shares of Speedway Motorsports closed down $4.17 at $34.80 - 10.7 percent - on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock is down about 8 percent so far this year, and has fallen 13.6 percent from its year high of $40.29 set in April.

"International Speedway and Speedway Motorsports will be negatively impacted in 2007 and beyond as the significant TV rights revenue stream will decline substantially," AG Edwards analyst Timothy Conder said in a report.

International Speedway - which was founded is controlled by the France family - owns or co-ownes a dozen race tracks throughout the county. The most well-known property is the Daytona International Speedway.
 
Next will be NASCAR-TV only $9.95 per hour :/


...but it's gonna be great to have Dr Jerry Punch back :beerbang:
 
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