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This is interesting:
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2012/11/26/Media/FoxSports1.aspx
So, networks can't do side-by-side commercials for NASCAR but they can do it for football and baseball where you don't miss any action during commercials?
http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2012...rging-about-fox-sports-one-cable-channel.html
But the promotional piece shows that Fox is far along in its planning for the channel, which it is positioning as a potential competitor to ESPN. The main theme is that, unlike others, Fox has the background to compete against the sports behemoth. Among examples: It highlights Fox as the company that broke the ABC/CBS/NBC broadcast TV monopoly in 1986 to launch its own TV network. It also points to Fox News, which launched in 1996 against a dominant CNN.
To underscore the notion that Fox Sports 1 plans to compete with ESPN, sources say the video includes a focus group of mostly men talking about their desire to have a competitor to ESPN. They complain about its perceived East Coast bias and programming like the ESPYs, sources say. When asked which network is best suited to offer competition, each answers “Fox.”
League executives were especially intrigued by a plan that would run in-game advertising as part of a “double box” — an ad that runs in a box on-screen alongside the event footage, even during timeouts and other stoppages. When a game goes to commercial, a second box will pop up showing the ads, with video from the stadium or arena in a smaller box still on the screen.
League executives were told the channel will launch in August, but they expect its big coming-out party to be the following January, the week before Super Bowl XLVIII in New York.
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2012/11/26/Media/FoxSports1.aspx
So, networks can't do side-by-side commercials for NASCAR but they can do it for football and baseball where you don't miss any action during commercials?
While Fox hasn't officially declared their intentions with Fox Sports 1, all signs are that it will become a reality in the near future. The consensus all along has been that Fox would transform Speed Channel and its 80 million homes into Fox Sports 1. If that's the case, Fox Sports 1 would be in more homes (by just a handful) than NBC Sports Network when it launches. With Formula 1 leaving Speed for NBC Sports Network, the door is opening for Speed to make the transition. FS1 could hold on to the more attractive auto racing programming, while other events could be transferred to Fuel.
http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2012...rging-about-fox-sports-one-cable-channel.html