The Announcers Thread

StandOnIt said:
They aren't doing that great with all of the channel switching either. CW O'reilly and the Fox Trucks are doing much better in their respective areas.
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Channel switching isn’t an issue for other sports.

The issue is the cup races are mostly boring with this new car, this playoff format is not generating interest and is polarizing traditional fans, and USA.
 
HoneyBadger said:
Channel switching isn’t an issue for other sports.

The issue is the cup races are mostly boring with this new car, this playoff format is not generating interest and is polarizing traditional fans, and USA.
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it boggles me my mind that you think Verstant is dictating they keep some form of a playoff when it hasnt worked and then you stick the product on USA Network which no offense many people dont have over the age of like 25. (I'm 40, I love me some USA Network).
 
Jorge De Guzman said:
it boggles me my mind that you think Verstant is dictating they keep some form of a playoff when it hasnt worked and then you stick the product on USA Network which no offense many people dont have over the age of like 25. (I'm 40, I love me some USA Network).
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There’s no point in keeping the postseason. There’s nothing to lose at this point.
 
Part of me wonders if NASCAR going from NBC Sports to USA Sports is a result of NASCAR dropping the current playoff format.

I mean, with the winner-take-all finale gone, NBC doesn't actually have anything except maybe the Southern 500 which has been watered down significantly by being the first race in the playoffs.

FOX has the Daytona 500, the Clash, the All Star Race, and the Throwback Race. Amazon has the Coca-Cola 600. TNT has the In-Season Tournament and the Brickyard 400.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
Chaos? That's a bit dramatic. The article says there are external boxes for $90, a one-time charge. I guess that may seem steep to over-the-air users but it's barely one month's cable or Intranet bill.
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People are bitching about having to buy $15 streaming sticks. This is gonna go over about as well as a glass of unsweet tea in the south.
 
HoneyBadger said:
People are bitching about having to buy $15 streaming sticks. This is gonna go over about as well as a glass of unsweet tea in the south.
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It's entertainment, not a necessity. They'll get by.

But I suspect each broadcast station's advertisers will have something to say about it. They won't pay the same rates if their ads are reaching far fewer people. Might be worth it to a station to subsidize the cost somehow.
 
Amazon and Xfinity (CW) did well. Cable and broadcast didn't do as well.

I wonder when NASCAR will figure out that the part of the year that they probably want to have the strongest TV viewership (i.e the last part of season when they have NFL competition) is the time when they have the NBC/USA package with Jeff Burton (who likely drives viewers away) in the booth. Yes, Leigh Diffey is an improvement over Rick Allen but still...

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>>NASCAR discovers results of new $7.7 billion TV deal as viewership figures released

...NASCAR secured a colossal $7.7 billion television rights agreement before the 2025 Cup Series season with FOX, NBC, Amazon Prime Video and TNT covering races through 2031.

While the deal brought NASCAR an enormous financial windfall, audience numbers have continued to decline, potentially due to viewer confusion about streaming access and growing dissatisfaction with the sport itself...<<
 
Tumbleweed said:
I wonder when NASCAR will figure out that the part of the year that they probably want to have the strongest TV viewership (i.e the last part of season when they have NFL competition) is the time when they have the NBC/USA package with Jeff Burton (who likely drives viewers away) in the booth. Yes, Leigh Diffey is an improvement over Rick Allen but still...
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Who's in the booth after August is irrelevant. It could be Allen Bestwick, Larry Mac, and the Ghost of Benny Parsons and it wouldn't matter. Football is king, and there's nothing NASCAR can do to pull similar ratings.
 
Tumbleweed said:
Amazon and Xfinity (CW) did well. Cable and broadcast didn't do as well.



>>NASCAR discovers results of new $7.7 billion TV deal as viewership figures released

...NASCAR secured a colossal $7.7 billion television rights agreement before the 2025 Cup Series season with FOX, NBC, Amazon Prime Video and TNT covering races through 2031.

While the deal brought NASCAR an enormous financial windfall, audience numbers have continued to decline, potentially due to viewer confusion about streaming access and growing dissatisfaction with the sport itself...<<
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Nascar's Cup TV deal wasn't colossal. Compared to the previous TV deal the rate of increase was much smaller than the previous 7 year contract and includes a more expensive and complicated way for fans to watch the Cup series. Amazon lost viewership every race they broadcast.
CW who broadcast the Xfinity full season warts and all did well. They were the only network to show an increase in viewership.

Fox/FS-1 who broadcast the Truck series reportedly lost only 5% overall attributed to more races moved to FS-1. FS-1 stayed pretty steady on viewership with the loss coming from Big Fox because of the loss of exposure.

Something like on the Cup side in the last 10 years, the ratings during the revised playoff part of the years that NBC has had have shown an overall decline every year.
So what has NBC done? Moved a chunk of the playoffs to the newly re-organized USA network. A light at the end of the tunnel? USA network has said Nascar, you can do what you will about the "playoffs".
So now we await the next possible cluster Nascar will come up with to alienate or keep more of their declining fan base. The popular path that is overwhelmingly wanted by the fans is a 36 race playoff less full season. Will Nascar have the courage to do so?
 
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