NASCAR broadcasting has been under some scrutiny for the past few years and for good reason. Yet with all that has been said about this important aspect there has been little to no overall advancement. Why is this? Today I want to look at the larger, underlying issue with NASCAR broadcasting. The unfortunate truth about NASCAR broadcasts.
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What do you think Prime and Turner can do to shake up NASCAR broadcasting?
Poach F1 producers and let them produce a great motorsport package and broadcast. Make it fun the coverage with seriousness and better-quality production with more cameras. Think outside of the box when it comes to ads and the flow of broadcasts. If not Prime/Turner then NASCAR for its global feed to make the investment, they got the compound in Concord, USE IT!!!! Oh 2:15 I use Nermal Sports Channel 2 too and even sometimes they hit and miss on camera, as for the coverage of no play by play just use MRN/PRN while on commercials with the raw feed it works :). (if you get the reference to a one grey cute cat character in the newspaper comics being sent by a fat orange cat to a country hosting the final race of F1 if ya know ya know)
Reduce the amount of commercial breaks, definitely will increase the product immediately after
Reduce the commercial breaks and stop with the childish nonsense.
Focus on McDowell Supremacy!
@@pedroa.baptista4906 Never gonna happen as long as Ad revenue stays high
Fox literally makes it sound like we’re kids learning the alphabet for the first time
NBC treats us with common knowledge and actually treats nascar like a sport
That was during the Dale Jr era. Now, it’s uncertain
Exactly
@@S.K.R.E.Inc.tbh even without Dale they were pretty good
i feel like the australian guy (i forgot his name) will be very good at giving us common knowledge because of his experience in all sorts of motorsports, even nascar
I swear, it’s every week with Fox where they miss something more important because they stick on something that they have been on for more than five minutes. I’m tired of missing a five-car wreck because they stay on Kyle Larson’s five-second lead over Denny Hamlin.
The camera angles on Fox are horrible.
It’s horrible because they need to stop zooming in
100%
They also stopped doing Crank It UPs which are sorely missed (and when they do, it’s always the same dam car in every shot)
@@S.K.R.E.Inc.yeah whenever they do Crank it up it’s on Pit Road which doesn’t hit the same as when they had 5 lug nuts.
So true I recently just watched an old broadcast and the camera angles were dang near perfect.
Fox is so bad. I just think they are mailing it in, and they are too stubborn to listen to what the fans want.
They’ve been that way since 2007
*phoning
Clint Bowyer is the biggest example of this, which sucks because I loved him as a driver
Fox treats NASCAR as a joke or something trendy
NBC treats NASCAR like an actual sport
Fox needs a massive overhaul (Mike Joy retires, Clint Bowyer is fired, Harvick as a 1-man booth, LMC should host the pre-and post-race shows, and SS and JMC are fired). NBC with Jr gone, needs to up the ante a bit. Allen replaced with Allen, Diffey as co-host in some races, replace Burton with one of the MRN guys
@@S.K.R.E.Inc. probably need a two man booth with Alexander as a play for play, and Harvick as a color commentator. Mike Joy yh he needs to retire for all good things he did to Fox well with all due respect he’s getting old and I don’t think in 2025 next year we need Joy and same old as other people again.
And apparently NASCAR doesn’t want that because FOX is only losing 3 races but NBC is losing a whopping 7 races.
As someone who’s been a Producer, Camera Director, and Camera Operator for Live Broadcasts (while yes on a smaller scale, the main concepts remain the same), the way FOX does their Broadcasts are just extremely lazy and formulaic. It feels like they do the broadcast because they’re required to so they can make money, not because they want to. There’s no passion
Agreed
Exactly!!
With NBC, there is a lot more passion in their broadcasts.
That’s a very arbitrary statement. You should be more objective and not subjective.
I was doing some yard work during part of the Talladega Race. All three times I turned on the broadcast on my phone, it was commercials. It was bad. They are also too reliant on in car cameras and when an in car camera could be useful, they show the wrong view. It’s frustrating.
This isn’t Fox 2001 anymore. It’s CRINGE at its finest
Big problems with broadcasts in 2024:
1.) No Dale Jr.
2.) Commercials
3.) Zoom up shots to where you can see atoms on the car
4.) Dumb segments interfering with race (includes Harvick’s word of the week and Bowyerisms)
5.) Cartoons and some dumb graphics
Most of these issues are thanks to FOX. Harvick has improved the booth though.
Still doesn’t excuse Fox at all. They should not have re-signed to the new deal at all
I think the cartoons of the drivers are a good idea but most of the graphics are just stupid
Oh, and Fox, also, are really, really, REALLY ADDICTED about shooting the cameras towards kids. It’s annoying and makes me wonder: Is that a dog whistle?
@@Brantleypop I think the same, know, if they made some F1 or WEC type of graphics it would be GREAT!
Don’t get me started with the Wendy’s cut away on the Daytona 500
I’ve been saying this time and time again: we need Dale Jr. as president and CEO of NASCAR.
Well, then he should have stuck to his playboy lifestyle in defiance of the witch. He had it all; hooch, blow, women, infinite fans and sponsorhips. The only reason he changed was because one of his exs called him out on his smoking habit after the witch chased him out
@@GarbagePlateROCyou know CEOs and presidents have kids? Have you seen Elon? So many kids, so many wives
@@votekyle3000the difference between elon and dale jr was that elon was a ceo before he had kids
So you just want to put Jr in with the current regime? They will fight tooth and nail and block any and all changes if it does not fit what they think is best for the sport, even if Jr makes a well reasoned and correct argument, he is one guy, vs an entire entrenched regime of people who think they know best.
What is needed IMO is for someone new to come in, buy up NASCAR and put the right people in. The France family arguably have lost their touch with the sport.
EDIT: ANd let’s not forget the TV partners and OEM are also not exactly innocent in all this too
The sad thing is that it feels like the last 3 years we’ve said the same things about Fox. They do something bad, fans call it out, and nothing changes. I’m not going to look deeply into the 5% ratings decrease, but for the future it might be the only way for fans to show their frustration.
The worst thing to have ever happened to Fox was the success of the iRacing Pro Invitational Series during Covid. Every problem with Fox’s broadcasts started there. They saw that as being their new model for briadcasting going forward, but it hasn’t translated at all to real life race broadcasts. Also, because of their rampant budget cuts, the whole experience feels incredibly impersonal. The old Hollywood Hotel and Speed Stage made the experience feel alive. The sterile environment it is now is just sad. There’s nothing human to latch onto. It’s not dystopian, but it feels like the level or two before that
One thing that you and so many people say is a thing is the lack of a need for a broadcaster to be there in person. I can’t believe that as time progresses we regress as a society so badly. Money is being made hand over fist for executives but we can’t bring 3 people to a race to talk for 3 hours? How cheap is this world becoming? It’s truly saddening.
Honestly, NASCAR needs to improve they international broadcast (the Saudi stream), in early 2023 (or 2022 I can’t remember) they have Jessie Punch during the FOX/NBC commercial break, updating the drivers currently state on the race, it was fun.
I think NASCAR’s International feed should be a exclusive booth and pit reporters.
“I can see why people would turn off after those commercials” an add literally pops up after that part in the video lol
As a Brit who watches the Saudi stream and watches other American motorsports and sports in general, the biggest difference between how sports are covered in the UK vs America is commercials are not taken during the races, the only except is on Eurosport (but if you pay for premium and watch online you can get ad free).
The only times adverts are shown during motorsports is before or after the race, during a break in action if the programme is showing a full day of motorsports so when there are breaks between races, or during highlights of races where you dont miss the action.
For me I dont get why at Talladega for example, they just missed the end of stage 2 by being on an advert break. Nascar has stage breaks built into the races, why not use those for adverts instead of mid way through the races missing the action. I see too often that Nascar, IndyCar and IMSA fans complain about missing action because they are on an advert. And if there is going to be adverts during the races, why not make them split screen so people watching can still see what is happening during the race.
Did you miss the entirety of the period where ITV covered F1?
@MarkPentler Yeah cause I wasn’t even alive when they covered F1, I have had only BBC and Channel 4/Sky.
@@maxb4085 Oh, in which case fair enough 😉
But yes – everyone hated that.
@MarkPentler The only itv motorsport I doo see is BTCC but they have breaks between the races. Also correction, it wasn’t that I wasn’t alive just didn’t watch F1 until 2009 when BBC took over.
Talladega ratings are probably down because nobody wants to watch another fuel saving mess like the Daytona 500 was, nobody wants to watch 2 wide gridlocked packs with no visible passing at 20 MPH off the pace.
Facts. This year’s Daytona 500 did more to get people to tune out rather than stay tuned in. What’s the point in watching a race when there’s maybe 10 laps of action they manage to catch on camera, 190 parade laps and the silence in between filled by Clint Bowyer poorly attempting to be like Darrell Waltrip?
People may be slowly finding out what I and others know, restrictor racing sucks, it is not racing. Boring running around, a few big wrecks and an interesting finale. Not much there. A joke
One think I don’t like is the full screen commercials.
Who cares
The REAL reason why TV viewership is shrinking is the “Extended Highlights” videos from the “Motorsports On NBC” YouTube channel. You get to watch the best parts of all 3 races each weekend in about an hour.
And NBC does their extended highlights far better than Fox when it’s Fox’s program.