TV and Streaming Viewing Picks for July 17, 2023: how to watch NASCAR
The NASCAR Cup Series race in New Hampshire which was postponed yesterday due to rain has been rescheduled for today on USA Network at noon ET.
The NASCAR Cup Series race in New Hampshire which was postponed yesterday due to rain has been rescheduled for today on USA Network at noon ET.
The Victor Wembanyama effect is real!
It's a big day for motorsports today as the Monaco Grand Prix airs on ABC at 9 a.m., then the Indy 500 on NBC at noon with the Coca-Cola 600 on Fox as the nightcap
"I actually have fond feelings and memories from my time at ESPN."
Darrell Waltrip is returning to the broadcast booth.
This game averaged 551,000 viewers on ESPN, and 247,000 viewers in the 18-49 demographic.
"It's the toughest thing you do in sports broadcasting, having to turn that corner from broadcasting a sports event to being at the center of a news story like that."
"We're getting the Joey Loganos and the Kyle Buschs, the Bubba Wallaces, the Kurt Buschs, we're getting the guys who were part of that event just 24 hours prior, on our show to talk about exactly what happened."
ESPN has a busy day with the Cotton Bowl followed by the Rose Bowl then will air Monday Night Football featuring the Buffalo Bills at the Cincinnati Bengals. ABC and ESPN2 will air the game at kickoff.
SRX is coming to ESPN in the summer of 2023.
The Big 12 still wants to get new rights deals done early.
The team of Levy, Orlovsky and Riddick will call some NFL games this fall, then an estimated five games a year under the new contract beginning in 2023.
Even though streaming is the future, NASCAR wants to have a presence on broadcast TV.
ESPN addressed the Flores lawsuit on air around 35 minutes after it broke, and spent the back half of NFL Live (around 50 minutes after it broke) covering it, then covered it further on SportsCenter later. NFL Network didn't get to it until hours later, and gave it minimal coverage.
McGee wrote for ESPN as "Al Covington" for two years in the early 2000s.
That being said, don't expect NASCAR to immediately jump in the deep end on the streaming front.
"All I want to be remembered as is a race fan who got a job in radio or TV. And for some reason, people liked me."
USA will air the eight-part "Race for the Championship" series in 2022.
"Kurt never put the spotlight on himself, but his work was always admired and appreciated."
The new deal will take Smith beyond the 15-year mark at ESPN.
There are plenty of winners and losers coming out of ESPN's return to hockey.
The E60 documentary Intimidator looks at Dale Earnhardt's death and how it impacted safety in NASCAR.
The game's viewership peaked with 4,480,000 viewers at 8:30 p.m. ET.
"You know what they didn’t ask me, when I wheeled in, if I agreed with the governor’s decision, they didn’t ask me if I agree with the mayor’s decision and they didn’t ask me my thoughts on wearing a mask. The first question they asked me after I had to give them my name, my address, personal information, and was if I had a living will."
A few weeks ago, Kevin Harlan said the plan was to have announcers calling games remotely until at least the conference finals. Now, that plan seems to have changed.