In case you missed or forgot this...
After all the grumbling and complaining about ABC/ESPN, fans may actually have the potential for an improved NASCAR TV experience starting in 2015, for the season closing events.
Considering that at the hands of ABC and ESPN, fans have been on the butt end of preferred programming choices, having had pre-race events lost, I mean preempted, to football, basketball and even little league baseball. (Yea, my neighbors heard about that one, as I screamed, "Are you kidding me!!!???")
A few years back was the big clincher that got everyone's attention, when the Phoenix race ran too long for its own britches (or contractual time slot allowed on ABC), and with the last 10 to 20 laps to go, the race was cut from the network telecast and moved to some satellite cable channel while we were fed America's Funniest Videos.
If you didn't have that cable channel, you had to turn to news outlets to find out if Jimmie Johnson did what he needed to do to get into the Chase.
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With that said, we still have what we have for 2014, at least in this perspective...
Here's how things look though, for NBC's coverage that will run from 2015 to 2024:
NASCAR and NBC Sports Group reached an agreement for NBCUniversal to have exclusive rights to the final 20 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races, final 19 NASCAR Nationwide Series events, select NASCAR Regional & Touring Series events and other live content beginning in 2015 NBC will telecast the last 20 Sprint Cup race and they will take the title from ABC/ESPN of exclusive home to the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.
This will obviously include the season-ending championship event at Homestead.
Where and what on NBC/NBCSN? (Huh, I wonder if I have that particular cable channel?)
The Summary of events NBC will cover, from 2015-2024:
· Final 20 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races (7 on NBC, 13 on NBCSN)
· Final 19 NASCAR Nationwide Series races (4 on NBC, 15 on NBCSN)
· NASCAR K&N Series and NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour events
· NASCAR Toyota (Mexico) Series events
· NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremony and season-ending banquets
· ‘TV Everywhere’ live-streaming rights for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series (This refers to practice and other events they're covering)
· Spanish-language broadcast rights on Telemundo and Mun2 for national series events and NASCAR Toyota (Mexico) Series
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I can only hope that NBC/NBCSN can be more reliable about the pre-race show being shown in it's entirety, not pre-empted by the end of other sporting events, as ESPN traditionally did for their entire contract!
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