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Saturday is the official day that the billion dollar NASCAR TV package shifts over to the ESPN family of networks. This signals the start of the run to the championship for both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series. That is the ESPN Infield Pit Center pictured above ready to go to work. To see the picture full size, just click on it. It is going to be Sprint Cup qualifying up at 10AM Eastern ...
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Krista Voda leads the NCTS gang from SPEED into the always exciting short-track action from O'Reill Raceway Park. Located on the other side of the Indy area, this historic bullring has been the scene of some tough and hard racing. Exactly the kind that the NCTS likes a lot. Voda handles the pre-race show at 7:30PM with Ray Dunlap and Adam Alexander as her reporters. Rick Allen, Phil Parsons ...
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Here we go with the channel surfing and the DVR programming for the NASCAR at Indy weekend. This is the recently changed Friday line-up. You may choose to take notes. SPEED starts at 1PM ET with NASCAR Live . It will be Steve Byrnes, Jeff Hammond and Larry McReynolds at the SPEED Stage for this one hour live news and information show. Randy Pemberton and Hermie Sadler will report from the ...
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Friday begins the ESPN and ABC coverage of NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series for 2008. This year, the NASCAR on ESPN team comes into this seventeen race stretch with a completely different mindset than 2007. Gone is the overblown hype, the stick-and-ball announcers and the SportsCenter updates in the middle of green flag racing. Gone is Draft Track every five laps and the music videos that served ...
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ESPN2 Returns The Sunday Night NASCAR Hour JD On The Rowdy.com Podcast "Shifting Gears" Continues To Rattle NASCAR TV Establishment ESPN: Re-Air "NASCAR Now" In The Morning NASCAR Reporters Mix It Up On ESPN2 SPEED's Sneak Peek Worth The Wait All these posts are open for your comments. Thursday TV Notes : Shifting Gears with Dale Earnhardt Jr. re-airs at 7PM Eastern Time on ESPN. NASCAR ...
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Many times this season we have talked about the crowded landscape of preview and review shows that come along on a Sprint Cup Series Sunday. ESPN recently announced that with the first race of its Cup schedule from The Brickyard, the network would once again be adding a full hour of NASCAR Now to ESPN2 on Sunday nights. These new shows will continue through the end of the season. It will be ...
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Surf on over to Rowdy.com and listen to me talk TV with Buck and Bass. The podcast is free and all you need to do is click on the Listen Now link on the right side of the page. The Rowdy.com podcast is in the Top 100 Podcast list on iTunes. This is my second season of helping "the boys" and I appreciate the opportunity to talk TV for all their fans. For those of you not familiar with ...
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Other than the TV coverage from the tracks and one daily news show, the NASCAR landscape is barren of long-form television programming. The Charlotte-based NASCAR Media Group may have lots of "official" resources and footage, but without a TV network that wants to participate, they are just watching the world go by. Meanwhile, upstart TV production groups run by Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tony ...
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The programming line-up on ESPN between 6AM and 3PM Eastern Time is in the middle of a major transformation. Daly Planet readers may remember this story that addressed the hiring of veteran sports TV anchor and reporter Hannah Storm. Now, ESPN has suddenly backed-off of their commitment to originate nine hours of daily sports news and has scaled the new live schedule back to six. Here is the ...
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The final two installments of Shifting Gears , the documentary about the transition of Dale Earnhardt Jr. from DEI to his first season at Hendrick Racing, will both air this week on ESPN. Tuesday at 7PM ET will be the next episode, which is said to feature Junior's "moment" with Kyle Busch on the final lap at Richmond. There are also many moments away from the track that should be ...
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This weekend ESPN is about to start its portion of the Sprint Cup coverage in addition to continuing the Nationwide telecasts. Please join us on Tuesday afternoon at 5:15PM Eastern Time as we talk about this topic with Dave Moody on Sirius Speedway . Channel 128 is the location for NASCAR news and conversation on Sirius. ESPN is hosting a media event on Tuesday afternoon where the network ...
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Host Allen Bestwick dove into the Monday "roundtable" version of NASCAR Now with a big smile on his face. For the second time this season, he was hosting three members of the NASCAR media on a special "reporters only" edition. While the last all-media show was a good start, this episode was exactly what fans wanted to see. Jenna Fryer of the AP, Gary Graves from USA Today and NASCAR Now's ...
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Kyle Busch
Another program from the fine folks at The NASCAR Media Group hit the air on Sunday night and did two things. One, it confirmed the fact that NASCAR contains some of the most interesting TV programming of any professional sport. Second, it showed the TV viewers one hour of something they have never seen before. Produced specifically for this off-week, NASCAR Confidential was something that ...
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Reporters Take Center Stage Again On "NASCAR Now" Delays At Gateway Make It A Long Night For Punch SPEED Counting On "NASCAR Confidential" All columns are open for your comments.
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The TV executives in-charge of NASCAR Now seem to take great pride this season in changing the ingredients that host Allen Bestwick must use to create a brand new one-hour show each Monday. Even after an off-week for the Sprint Cup Series, the Producers have been smart enough on this next Monday to invite a variety of NASCAR writers and reporters to the show. They are going to offer a ...
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ESPN closed the Infield Pit Center for the weekend and sent Allen Bestwick and Brad Daugherty off on vacation. All Jerry Punch and the ESPN crew at Gateway would have to do is host one little Nationwide Series race without them. What a task that turned-out to be. It was Dave Burns expanding his pit reporter duties and stepping-in as the semi-host of the pre-race show. Burns has come a long ...
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The double-edged sword that is the relationship between SPEED and The NASCAR Media Group is going to once again be on display this Sunday night. With the Sprint Cup Series taking the weekend off, SPEED is going to fill the Victory Lane timeslot with a special program. NASCAR Confidential will come along at 8PM Eastern Time. This series is another one from the official television company of ...
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Dr. Jerry Punch gets to carry the combined load of hosting the pre and post-race shows along with calling the action of the Nationwide Series race this Saturday night. Allen Bestwick and Brad Daugherty have the weekend off, so the Infield Pit Center is officially closed. Punch will be joined by Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree to form the team that will call the next seventeen Sprint Cup Series ...
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