Formula 1 will stay on ESPN and ABC through 2022, with ESPN citing audience increases both year-over-year and over NBC in 2017
As per ESPN, F1 audiences are up 19 percent year over year and 24 percent over the NBC average from 2017.
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FS1’s video feed cut out for NASCAR Truck Series Hall of Fame 200 finish, finish came with audio only, then a quick throw...
The race finished with audio only, and then video came back just before FS1 threw to college football.
NBC’s Parker Kligerman talks Roval, balancing driving and broadcasting on the same weekend, and interviewing an upset Kyle Busch after Las Vegas
Kligerman has double duty where he will be on NBCSN's Xfinity Series broadcast and then racing in Sunday's Cup Series race.
Fox Sports’ Michael Waltrip talks about his documentary Blink of an Eye, chronicling his friendship with Dale Earnhardt and the triumph and tragedy...
"The beauty of this story is, it's a story about friendship and a relationship that is told in the setting of NASCAR. It's not a NASCAR story... it's a story about friends."
Police seize 40 marijuana plants after helicopter camera reveals them during Vuelta A España bike race
Growing pot in Spain is legal if it's for self-consumption, so there haven't been any arrests.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. to take weekend off from NBC’s NASCAR broadcast after plane crash
Everyone onboard the plane was okay and Dale Jr. will be back at Darlington in two weeks.
Fire took out broadcasting truck at German GP, and F1 needed to scramble to find a solution
A storm caused a fire that destroyed the broadcasting truck.
Lewis Hamilton won’t let Netflix use footage of him sick during Mercedes’ “Armageddon weekend”: “I won’t allow them to release that.”
"I won’t be in the Netflix show much, because I was sick the whole time. I won’t allow them to release that."
NASCAR ratings slowly rising after 2018’s low point
Attendance remains an issue as well, but there's still some positives to be found.
As the Tour de France begins, we remember the life of Paul Sherwen
Paul Sherwen died of heart failure last December at age 62. He and Phil Liggett had called the Tour de France together every year since 1986.
Naval officer and NASCAR driver Jesse Iwuji to join NBC’s Daytona broadcast as guest reporter
Iwuji is a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve and has competed in five Truck races.
Multiple NASCAR teams to honor Darrell Waltrip with special paint schemes for his final broadcast
Matt Dibenedetto, David Ragan, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will be honoring Waltrip with paint schemes from DW's racing career.
ESPN’s “Qualified” 30 for 30 premiere cut out a few minutes early thanks to a “glitch,” leaving ending to ESPN app and re-airs
A glitch meant the initial broadcast of "Qualified" cut out the last few minutes of the film. The problem was fixed on the subsequent re-air, and the film is now available on the ESPN app and through further re-airs Wednesday and Saturday.
Fox’s third ‘Drivers Only’ broadcast was unique and fun, but a bit challenging to hear at times
Fox's third annual Drivers Only broadcast is in Charlotte.
The first Indy 500 on NBC posted the best overnight rating for the race in three years
The Indy 500 ratings bump including a fifteen percent increase over 2018 on ABC.
