The Announcers Thread

I thought last night's presentation was the best of the season. Good camera shots and the booth was good.
 
Amazon Prime ... refreshing commentary booth with AA/Jr/Letarte.

Picture quality is fantastic.

Graphics look amazing. Clean, easy to read. Smooth. Not enormous.

Downside: Using a pylon on the side of the screen of a CW-style leaderboard.
 
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Primes broadcast crew review.

As far as the broadcast on Prime. I had forgotten that Letard and Jr. went to the Jeff Burton squeal your high pitched ass off while you broadcast school and never ever STFU. For a long time there I thought the only 2 cars on the track were Byron and Hambone.

Listened to the race on mute 90% of the time.
 
The worst picture quality for me since antenna's. Couldn't hang with all of the useless info the gerbils were spewing so I had them turned down way low and had PRN on. It was sync'd to real time for a change. I been to way too many rodeo's watching racing to be impressed by the fake drama the gerbs are selling. It's good for the youngsters. The Hambone ****pit B.S. gimmick reminded me of the days of Digger lol. Look at his eyes...no just turn the damn camera around and show the bleeping race will ya.
 
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At times, the broadcast seemed like it was on film, not HD Video .
Although Game Creek Video, NEP and SVG are used for production, enlisting people who can properly utilize those assets is a challenge.
 
They got some issues to clean up with the ticker and excessive background race noise. Wished they would just stop with the gerbil affects and over dramatizations.
 
With Junior being off TV last year, I forgotten how much he talks during a broadcast. Between the booth and the pit road reporters, I felt like I was watching an NBC broadcast. They did a good job.

The only time I ever saw issues with the picture quality is when they shifted from a standard break to something more regionalized. The PQ on those commercials was awful and it took a minute for the race coverage to clear up. Otherwise, the PQ was great. For anyone having issues with that, I'd recommend checking on your bandwidth and how much download speed you have.
 
Was Jamie McMurray only doing Xfinity races for CW while Fox had Cup? Seems odd to switch announcers, even with fill-ins, almost halfway into the season.
 
So far so good for TNT Sports.

Also, they shared their intro with some media outlets and are continuing the trend of using badass rock music.



So TNT's used:

AC/DC - TNT (2001, 2010-2014)
Metallica - Fuel (2001-2004)
Hinder - Born to be Wild (2007-2008)
Buckcherry - Highway Star (2009)
AC/DC - Thunderstruck (2025)
 
Hey, Fox, you wanna cut costs? Stop wasting money on having your pre-race commentators hang out in the infield. Leave them in the studio and send them home once the race starts. Oh, and save the production costs on those snarky scripted segments.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
Hey, Fox, you wanna cut costs? Stop wasting money on having your pre-race commentators hang out in the infield. Leave them in the studio and send them home once the race starts. Oh, and save the production costs on those snarky scripted segments.
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I thought you Fox Sports haters would get a kick out of it. He did spread it around and got the gerbils involved also lol.
 
Fox doesn't own the track outright, it owns a 1/3 share. There's no room on the track calendar in May, and I don't see anyone involved tolerating any distractions from the biggest event in motorsports.
 
HoneyBadger said:
FOX now has even more incentive to continue to relegate NASCAR to second and third tier programming.
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This isn't a zero-sum game. If NASCAR isn't getting equal treatment with Fox's other properties, it isn't solely because the network has a second motorsports contract. You might as well blame the NFL, MLB, and whatever else they carry.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
This isn't a zero-sum game. If NASCAR isn't getting equal treatment with Fox's other properties, it isn't solely because the network has a second motorsports contract. You might as well blame the NFL, MLB, and whatever else they carry.
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The issue is that FOX has prioritized INDYCAR and now has more incentive to do so.

Don't get me wrong, NASCAR's done plenty of this to themselves ... getting rid of Speedweeks, shorter race weekends, turning down the FOX promo campaign because NASCAR wants to promote the brand and manufacturers instead, and so on.
 
HoneyBadger said:
The issue is that FOX has prioritized INDYCAR and now has more incentive to do so.
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Examples, please.

I'm not cheerleading Fox's coverage of NASCAR. I agree it's slipped over the decades and needs a lot of work, and that NASCAR ipartly to blame. But I strongly question whether the problems are due to having IndyCar in the portfolio. That 'prioritizing' doesn't seem to have affected their NFL or MLB coverage. If Fox is withholding resources from NASCAR coverage, I don't see how it means those resources are by default being used for IndyCar.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
Examples, please.

I'm not cheerleading Fox's coverage of NASCAR. I agree it's slipped over the decades and needs a lot of work, and that NASCAR ipartly to blame. But I strongly question whether the problems are due to having IndyCar in the portfolio. That 'prioritizing' doesn't seem to have affected their NFL or MLB coverage. If Fox is withholding resources from NASCAR coverage, I don't see how it means those resources are by default being used for IndyCar.
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I saw FOX promote the IndyCar Series more during NFL than NASCAR. Despite the Daytona 500 being the week after the Super Bowl.
 
HoneyBadger said:
Oh, and NASCAR signed a contract prioritizing cable over broadcast and streaming. Their massive ratings decline this year is a result of that.
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Do you not know that streaming companies offer Fox sports also? Cable/Dish companies offer streaming channels?
 
StandOnIt said:
Do you not know that streaming companies offer Fox sports also?
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For $80/month or more.

You keep saying this over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over like it changes anything, but it doesn't. Those "streaming companies" you speak of ARE CABLE TV. "Hulu Live" is CABLE TV. DIRECTV Stream and YouTube TV ARE CABLE TV.

In order to watch the majority of the races, you have to have CABLE TV. FOX and NBC moved almost the entirety of their schedules TO CABLE TV when they paid NASCAR. NASCAR on NBC remains the only NBC Sports property exclusive to CABLE TV.

And with WB Discovery splitting, and Discovery taking TNT, we might see five more races be exclusive to CABLE TV.

Cable TV is dead. Which is why Amazon Prime had more viewers online than TNT had on cable, and why races that were on FOX and NBC last year are seeing double digit declines on FS1 and TNT.

You're such a shill for FOX that you'll dismiss all of this though because you want every race on FS1.
 
There is not one single NASCAR national series race available on streaming this weekend.

Trucks are exclusively on cable. Xfinity is on CW (OTA and cable only). Cup is exclusively on cable.

And NASCAR wonders why their audience is plummeting faster than the Titanic.
 
@HoneyBadger, on second thought, if I had one property all to myself (17 races) vs. one I shared with three other partners (with 14 races, down from 18 in the past), I'd probably give the shared one less attention too. That's back on NASCAR again for how it divvies up the pie.
 
HoneyBadger said:
Those "streaming companies" you speak of ARE CABLE TV. "Hulu Live" is CABLE TV. DIRECTV Stream and YouTube TV ARE CABLE TV.
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Then would you why they're not streaming services? I just know I can't get Hulu and YouTube and Peacock and the CW app on a local Spectrum 'wired service with a set-top box'. I pull them over an Internet connection using a streaming device.
 
HoneyBadger said:
Trucks are exclusively on cable. Xfinity is on CW (OTA and cable only). Cup is exclusively on cable.
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And yet somehow, without a cable contract or box, with no antenna, I'll watch all three races this weekend (ARCA, not Trucks). If I'm not watching them over the 'streaming services' I'm paying for individually, how am I doing it?
 
HoneyBadger said:
For $80/month or more.

You keep saying this over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over like it changes anything, but it doesn't. Those "streaming companies" you speak of ARE CABLE TV. "Hulu Live" is CABLE TV. DIRECTV Stream and YouTube TV ARE CABLE TV.

In order to watch the majority of the races, you have to have CABLE TV. FOX and NBC moved almost the entirety of their schedules TO CABLE TV when they paid NASCAR. NASCAR on NBC remains the only NBC Sports property exclusive to CABLE TV.

And with WB Discovery splitting, and Discovery taking TNT, we might see five more races be exclusive to CABLE TV.

Cable TV is dead. Which is why Amazon Prime had more viewers online than TNT had on cable, and why races that were on FOX and NBC last year are seeing double digit declines on FS1 and TNT.

You're such a shill for FOX that you'll dismiss all of this though because you want every race on FS1.
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YouTube TV is not traditional cable TV. It’s a live TV streaming service that delivers channels over the internet, requiring a subscription and a compatible device like a smart TV, phone, or computer. Unlike cable, it doesn’t rely on physical infrastructure like coaxial cables or satellite dishes, and it offers flexibility to watch on-demand or live without a long-term contract. However, it functions similarly to cable by providing a bundle of live channels, including local networks, sports, and entertainment, often at a lower cost.

Hulu Live TV is a streaming service, not traditional cable TV. It delivers live and on-demand TV channels over the internet, requiring a subscription and a compatible device like a smart TV, phone, or computer. Unlike cable, it doesn’t use physical infrastructure like coaxial cables or satellite dishes and offers flexibility with no long-term contracts. However, it mimics cable by providing a bundle of live channels, including local networks, sports, and entertainment, often at a competitive price.
 
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