I dont have to imagine. We saw it with the 2024 Summer Games. NASCAR took the weekend off, remember?
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HoneyBadger
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There’s A LOT more going on during the Summer Olympics. That’s an apples/oranges comparison.
2006 (alongside Torino) was the highest rated flag-to-flag NASCAR broadcast ever.
HoneyBadger
Big Amber Glenn Fan
Of course it doesn’t matter now. NBC is out, and given that FOX gets everything, I don’t blame them for being out.
NASCAR was a lot more popular in 2006 than 2026.
HoneyBadger
Big Amber Glenn Fan
Having the Daytona 500 would’ve enhanced their “Legendary February” campaign.
Granted I’m of the opinion that the Daytona 500 should be held in early March.
MRM
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They'd move it to USA.
I'll take your word. I haven't looked at NBC since the checkers waved at Phoenix.
On X Austin Konenski (sp) posted that the 500 had a hair over 5 million viewers. Apparently Nielsen has not announced its ratings yet so Austin jumped the gun & apologized.
uh huh.
HoneyBadger
Big Amber Glenn Fan
HoneyBadger
Big Amber Glenn Fan
I love the placement of CW's leaderboard, but they need to bring it down to 16-20 names so they can have a bigger/wider font. It's hard to see, especially if your local CW station is SD (which is what ours is on DIRECTV). I had the LA feed at home and it was better, but still, that font is way too compressed.
Coverage is otherwise fine.
Coverage is otherwise fine.
HoneyBadger
Big Amber Glenn Fan
Also, Adam Alexander with an all-time great last lap call there.
MRM
Team Owner
Breaking news: Fox added pit stop times as they happened yesterday. They seem to be trying to present a more professional presentation.
HoneyBadger
Big Amber Glenn Fan
A decline for this week for the Cup race. Not surprised nor disappointed though. The Olympic Closing Ceremonies were happening opposite on NBC just hours removed from one of the biggest moments in the history of American sports.
IF there's a WNBA season, that's a big if, NASCAR and Versant (USA) need to use the hell out of "Spicy Sophie" for cross promotion.
Sophie Cunningham is one of the most popular players, is a pretty avid NASCAR fan from everything I've seen. And she's HOT!
Megan Engelhart of FOX said before the Cup race that FOX is going exclusively to side-by-side coverage for Cup races here on out.
I'll believe that when we see it.
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What's pretty useless is when they do side by side commercials during a caution. What's the point? Put on your full screen commercials during cautions and have all green flag commercials be side by side.
I -think- the full-screen breaks are pre-scheduled so the affiliates will know when they can run their local ads. If that's the case, those breaks will happen at the scheduled times regardless of track activity or status.
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Yes, I would agree that is what happens, but if they wanted to they could change that and they should.
I'm pretty sure the affiliates pay the networks, not the other way around. They call the shots. Having the full breaks scheduled probably allows the affiliates to automate when the ads run, instead of having to pay staff to respond to on-the-fly breaks.
I'm not disagreeing with you that it would be great, just pointing out why it isn't likely to happen. But I'm old; I'm still happy I don't have to wait two weeks for an edited race to be shown on 'Wide World of Sports'.
DIDIT
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Are you referring to cautions that happen before or during the commercial?
The affiliate breaks are indeed pre designated into select time blocks, with a signal given to locals that notifies the break is upcoming.
Advertising is sold in packages. There are premium slots for those interruptive breaks that come near the end of stages and the race.