re: 2025 NASCAR Season Thread - 2025-26 Offseason

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This NBC broadcast is just gawd awful.

Who the frick thought having a Brit (or Aussie) as the play by play of NASCAR was a good idea?

Latarte talks so fast he sounds like one of those radio legal disclaimer things.

Burton is tolerable sometimes.

And, whoever runs the scoring pylon is legit autistic. The damn thing bounces around so much you can't keep up with drivers are. And, do we really need a lap by lap run down of where the playoff drivers are scored?

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The Prime situation this summer was bad, but it gets me that NASCAR can't see how easy the solution for TV really is. Here's what they should do:

1) Full Season on NBC/USA for over the air broadcast and full season on Prime for streaming.
2) Only time the races can be put on USA will be if there is a direct conflict with an existing sports event NBC has rights to. Think PGA Tour Golf in March and the U.S. Open in June. Those races can be on USA.
3) NASCAR does the production itself, NBC/USA/Prime just airs it. Similar to how ESPN simply airs the Sky Sports broadcast for F1, they don't actually produce the broadcast at all.

Dump FOX, as they have long since stopped caring about NASCAR and largely phone it in. Dump TNT as they are about bankrupt anyway and are shedding sports properties, including losing the NBA this year.

NASCAR always has the challenge with the fact that their fan base is the oldest and most blue collar in terms of professional sports. Many of these people, as evidence this year, simply will not stream and will only watch if it's over the air and/or cable. Provide that for them. But then also provide streaming for the younger fans and younger generations as a whole.

The biggest thing is you get both. The younger fans and cord cutters can stream on Prime. The older fans can watch on NBC/USA. It would be a NASCAR production so it's the same broadcast for the most part anyway.

NASCAR already does the production in house for the races on Prime and TNT. So it really wouldn't be a big change.

For Xfinity (O'Reilly Auto Parts in 2026) and Trucks, put all of those races on CW over the air and again give Prime the rights for streaming. Cut FOX out completely.

Do all this, you get fans back. You attract some newer fans (and keep them) while still mostly keeping the older fans. And you bring in consistency. No having to have 5 or 6 different services to watch NASCAR races. The NFL can get away with that, NASCAR can't.