Does anyone else think that NASCAR should back-out of their contract with ABC/ESPN due to terrible race coverage and no post race interviews?
2007-10-15 05:42:11 · 22 answers · asked by Scott 6 in Sports ➔ Auto Racing ➔ NASCAR
yes yes yes yes yes
2007-10-15 05:44:31 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The race Saturday night at the beginning was so ridiculous, with so many commercials, we were watching TAPE replays instead of live action racing! Then we got to see PIT ROAD PIT STOPS ! It was crap. I did send en email complaining to ESPN/ABC as if it will do any good. I let them know I did watch the play-off baseball game. Never turned the race back on.
First time I've EVER done that, I'm a thirty year die hard NASCAR fan. Not anymore. I already quit attending races in person. I don't make $100k per year.
By the way, did you see all the empty seats at Lowe's?
2007-10-15 08:10:09 · answer #2 · answered by WooleyBooley again 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree it sucks...I know ABC/ESPN have a contract not sure how long it is.. Invest in Sirus Satelite radio people..its $12.95 a month, you will get MRN/PRN they are on way past the end of the race, and they talk to a ton of drivers..And Tony Stewarts radio show is great.. I have my sirus radio rigged up to play thru my sound system for TV, these guys know racing..and theres no RUSTY.. We also have Trackpass (you can hear PRN/MRN there also) going and normally one of my friends brings over a couple notebooks and they have the Scanner going...So with all this it makes the Race seem 1000% less painful than ABC's coverage.. You know ABC is going to cut the race right at the end now....Its college football season......We can all start counting the days till the Daytona 500 and Fox will be back... My suggestion to ABC/ESPN put better people in the booth.
Me, I'll keep my sirus radio & trackpass handy to listen to the drivers and the race..
2007-10-15 06:00:51 · answer #3 · answered by Go Team Penske 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It seems that all the networks (Fox/FX, NBC/TNT, and ESPN/ABC) consistently miss cautions and restarts in favor of more commercials, so I don't see any difference there. I don't like the lack of post-race interviews, so there's a strike against ESPN/ABC.
Their on-camera "talent" is totally worthless, save for one person. I like Andy Petree. That guy is gold, and he should be broadcasting NASCAR for every race, every network. Brad Daugherty is a joke and should never be put on the air again (unless he's talking about basketball). I'm pretty disappointed in Rusty, too. He seems to say the same things over and over, and can we please stop referring to everyone as a "cat?" Please???
So my answer is no, they shouldn't back out of their contract. They're pretty lame, but nobody else seems to be able to do any better. Until we can have DW and Andy Petree in the booth together and do the "side-by-side" commercials (like ESPN/ABC does for the mosquito car races), we just have to live with it.
2007-10-15 09:58:14 · answer #4 · answered by John E 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's up with the split screen to show college football highlights? I don't know about the rest of you race fans, but I care very little about other sports. The fact that ESPN thinks that we want to have the race interrupted for some college football shows how out of touch they are. I've never seen football interrupted to show what's going on in the race.
2007-10-15 10:53:40 · answer #5 · answered by Crazy Ant 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AMEN AND HELL YES! (oops, maybe should use two of those words together in the same sentence..lol)
That and Get Rusty Whiner off the air. He was killing me trying to make more out of Gordons bump than it was...going on and on and on and on (you get the picture) then when it looked like someone may block JR later he said uh oh, JR aint gonna put up with that and is going to put a bumper on it...**** he was driving me nuts. I'd rather listen to Madden or Cosell....
Oh and keep the "Cut away" parts to a minimum. I'm an engine idiot and now I can tell you exactly what a piston does to an engine when it breaks!!!
Oh and Andy "P" - Thank you for a term, that while mentally disturbing seems very appropriate...lol
2007-10-15 07:49:09 · answer #6 · answered by MD 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do!!
Just remember something though....people complain about EVERY network when it comes to race coverage. Pay attention to these boards next season and you'll see what I mean. I must say that ABC/ESPN is the worst out of them all, with FOX being the best.
2007-10-15 05:45:57 · answer #7 · answered by Bizz 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
NASCAR chose money over quality. But ESPN could fix this pretty easily. Replace jerry punch with allen bestwick, replace rusty wallace with Dale Jarett and i could deal with andy petree. I hate ESPN/ABC its awful coverage, if i had sirius radio i would listen to their commentators and watch turn the volume down on my tv. cant wait for FOX.
2007-10-15 05:59:39 · answer #8 · answered by 24fan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really wish you noobs would quit complaining about NASCAR coverage on whatever network it happens to be on. Back when I first got into NASCAR, there was NO live coverage. I was lucky to even read about it in my local newspaper. My hometown paper still doesn't carry much more than 1 paragraph once a month or so about any type of racing.
Back to TV coverage..... Once NASCAR was established on TV, then it was a matter of even finding what network was carrying the race, if it was broadcast at all. If you didn't have cable, you didn't watch racing live (ABC was notorious for tape delaying a race, sometimes by days). Even if you did get to watch the race, there were almost no graphics to tell who was leading, 2nd or out of the race. most of the time all you got was a bunch of cars going around the track. Commentators? Yeah, right. What we got were rejects fro baseball, basketball, or just someone who was too old to follow a ball. Someone mentioned Dr Jerry Punch as needing to be replaced. You might want to actually listen to what he says. He's one of the most talented commentators out there. His knowledge doesn't just cover stick-and-ball sports, he is one of the premier Auto racing analysts.
Let's not forget that back then, if a ball game came on tv at a certain time on the channel you were watching the race, too bad, the ball game won, and the end of the race was not shown. I remember many a race that was never completed on tv due to GOLF. Golf? Give me a break. It's barely a sport anyway.
2007-10-15 06:16:36 · answer #9 · answered by . 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
The coverage is terrible! I look forward to the beginning of the season when fox is back covering the coverage. Just to throw one more jab TNT has better coverage than ABC but they have almost twice as many comercials.
2007-10-15 05:51:01 · answer #10 · answered by Brian P 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
DEAR GOD YES! im ready to *** someone in the eye socket over their piss poor coverage. The post race stuff has especially pissed me off. AMEN!
Hey JGRace, who cares about way back when? Live in the now man!! We need to address the problems we have NOW not the way a race was back in 1967!!!
2007-10-15 07:24:33 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋