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SRX Racing Series on CBS
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the only thing this series got going is it's a place for drivers of motorsports past to relive their glory days. this series is founded by 2 guys with a strong championship past in NASCAR, with Ray Evernham who was Jeff Gordon's crew chief from 1992-1999 where they won 3 championships in the Cup Series in 1995, 1997 & 1998 as well as the 1997 and 1999 Daytona 500 and of course the series co-founder is nonother than Tony "Smoke" Stewart, who besides being a 3 time cup series champ as a driver (2002, 2005 driving for Joe Gibbs Racing and 2011 driving for his team he co-owns with Gene Haas, Stewart-Haas Racing), a 2 time champion as a owner (his 2011 championship win as well as Kevin Harvick's 2014 Cup Series Championship win for SHR) and being a 1 time Indycar Series champ for the 1996-1997 season.
Plus it good to hear Allen Bestwick to call a motorsports event again in the booth for the first time on TV since the ESPN/IndyCar Series deal ended. and also happy to see Matt Yocum doing the pit road side reporting again after he was let go by Fox Sports last year.
This series could be a way to get NASCAR back on the network as the last race from NASCAR to air on CBS was in 2000.
Plus it good to hear Allen Bestwick to call a motorsports event again in the booth for the first time on TV since the ESPN/IndyCar Series deal ended. and also happy to see Matt Yocum doing the pit road side reporting again after he was let go by Fox Sports last year.
This series could be a way to get NASCAR back on the network as the last race from NASCAR to air on CBS was in 2000.
Bestwick is arguably the best motorsports announcer in the business today, it was nice to hear from him again.
NASCAR still has 3.5 more seasons on its deal with NBC and Fox. However, the IndyCar deal with NBC is up at the end of this season. CBS denies having interest in IndyCar rights, though. Without a functional sports network on cable, it would be tough for CBS to bid on a sport with niche appeal.
After Dec. 31, CBS will have one more functional sports network on cable than NBC will: CBS Sports Network. Yes, after NBCSN is killed off, USA will become a sort-of sports network again, as it was in the '80s and '90s, but CBSSN has always been all sports. What it hasn't been is given a chance to make a name for itself, as CBS has seemed content to let it remain a dumping ground for college sports from who-cares-but-the-alumni conferences. NASCAR has nosedived since its faddish popularity peaked, but it would still get more eyeballs in front of the screen than Rice vs. Utah State.
Which is believed to be one reason that NBC is not interested in renewing their IndyCar rights.
CBS Sports Net is in so few homes that it's hard to imagine any significant league taking their rights package there.
NBC seems to be cutting costs across the board. They lost the NHL. Killed off NBCSN. What do they have left for sports?
NFL, Olympics, French Open tennis, PGA golf, Notre Dame football and other college football and basketball.
Olympics 2 weeks every 2 years. French Open really 2 weekends. 7 ND games? Half a season of PGA Golf. What will they have during the summer and winter.
College basketball in winter. Really doesn't matter because Peacock is being pushed as a destination for all sorts of entertainment, not just sports. Peacock doesn't have to have sports on the schedule every day of the year. OTA and cable are not part of the big-picture future for NBCUniversal. Over-the-top is where the big money will be, and the large majority of people in this country are not sports fans.
ESPN and CBS really corned the market for CBB. Sure Peacock will have the niche sports but will they get broad appeal?
NBC should have brought back Allen Bestwick in 2015
I assume they would have had to buy out his ESPN contract.
In college football NBC has only carried Notre Dame and a few games between historically black colleges, and I'm not sure how much of that they're still doing. I've never understood why they don't make a deal with some major conference other than not wanting to put out the money for it. But then once CBS loses their deal with the SEC, what will they be doing?
Again, you're thinking that everyone's a sports fan. Not even close, in fact not even close to a majority. Counterprogramming against most sports programming is a sound strategy. NBC and Peacock don't need sports to attract viewers, subscribers or advertisers. Let everyone else pay the ever-escalating rights fees.
ND alums are a good demo even in down years
You can build a nice business with niche if the niche is desirable to advertisers. They’ve got the number one show (generally) on TV on the form of SNF, plus what comes with that in terms of playoff and other games. Not bad. Adding other sports to that even if they’re not all mass appeal can work well.
I didn't mean for it to sound like NBC should drop ND, but it would make sense to have another conference as well.
Maybe they'll bid for one should one come available. But again, since NBCSN is being eliminated and Peacock is being pitched primarily as an entertainment portal, it's not essential. Regular season basketball is not a great ratings-getter anyway, these days, especially with the anti-kneeling, anti-BLM, no-I'm-not-racist segment of fans who used to like basketball likely staying away from the sport.
Oh, I forgot Premier League soccer as a property that remains in the hands of NBC/Peacock. Very much a niche, but a league most American soccer fans follow enthusiastically, and about the only soccer rights for the U.S. that ESPN doesn't hold. ESPN has just added Spain's top league (La Liga) to its ESPN+ lineup for next season, joining the top leagues of Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Australia, China, India and England's lower leagues (Championship, League One and League Two).
Actually, Italy's Serie A has already left ESPN+. For the next three seasons, CBS Sports has the exclusive USA rights to the games of Serie A, with Paramount+ as the primary home of the games.
Serie A is coming to Paramount+: CBS Sports acquires exclusive rights for Italian soccer beginning this summer
Soccer fans in the United States will be able to get their calcio fix via ViacomCBS' Paramount+ streaming service
www.cbssports.com
Ah, thanks for that info. That explains ESPN's snapping up La Liga, then.Actually, Italy's Serie A has already left ESPN+. For the next three seasons, CBS Sports has the exclusive USA rights to the games of Serie A, with Paramount+ as the primary home of the games.
Serie A is coming to Paramount+: CBS Sports acquires exclusive rights for Italian soccer beginning this summer
Soccer fans in the United States will be able to get their calcio fix via ViacomCBS' Paramount+ streaming service
The problem with European leagues other than the Premier League, other than the language barrier, is their top-heavy nature. Six clubs have dominated the top of the Premier League in recent years. France's Ligue 1 and Germany's Bundesliga have been the private hunting grounds of Paris St.-Germain and Bayern Munich for years, although Lille unseated PSG this past season and Bayern has had to fight off Dortmund and (recently) Leipzig occasionally. Spain has a triumvirate of Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona. The Premier League's two Manchester clubs, as well as Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, all have developed substantial American followings, and Leicester City is doing so. You'll probably find more West Ham, Everton and Aston Villa fans here than fans of, say, Real Betis, Rennes and Wolfsburg. Serie A is a nice addition for CBS's Paramount+ but hardly a game changer. I trust the rights fee paid wasn't too much. Champions League and the secondary Europa League are definite positives, as both involve high-profile English (and continental) clubs every season.
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