or on the main NBC one.
or on the main NBC one.
jack is a genius... idiots at indy car seriously can figure out this stuff?
IndyCar probably doesn't have any say in it. NBC usually carries golf (PGA) on Sundays. (Never mind, CBS carries golf usually, not NBC, so I'm confused.)
ABC doesn't want to broadcast all the races obviously for some reason. Even though their coverage isn't the greatest.
Looking at TV guide NBC has local programming on Sunday through 2:30 in competition with the Sprint Cup race, and then at 3 or so NHL (hockey) comes on. This is usual for them. They have F1 as well and it's trapped on NBC sports network..
ABC doesn't want to broadcast all the races obviously for some reason. Even though their coverage isn't the greatest.
Looking at TV guide NBC has local programming on Sunday through 2:30 in competition with the Sprint Cup race, and then at 3 or so NHL (hockey) comes on. This is usual for them. They have F1 as well and it's trapped on NBC sports network..
lol
Great race again, great win by Taku (finally).
Picked him to win (was trolling jack)!
Well even if Disney wanted, there is a valid contract between IndyCar and what was formally known as Versus.
That was done after ABC was reluctant to cover the whole season, but TG made sure to sign with the lowest rated channel Possible to ensure indy will struggle to survive for the years after he gets invitably sacked.
Coverage of the race was more interesting than the f1 race imo.
Quite impressed tbh
Quite impressed tbh
NBC know how to cover indy properly, only problem is people dont know how to watch it.
Eh?
Leigh Diffey is a good commentator, but better suited to sports cars, Brian Till is awful, Townsend is okay.
Problem is rather than go for somebody that actually knows Indy, NBC wanted a foreign voice. They ought to move Leigh down from lead spot to analysis, and put somebody in the lead spot who actually knows what they are on about, Just for the love of God, NO NEIL CROMPTON!
Hahaha. No need to worry though, he is busy with the V8's. :P
So he's doing community service then? I'm frantically racking my brains trying to remember who the decent V8 crew were back in the late 90s/early 00s.
I found a Channel 10 video of Indy at Surfers. That was...awful to say the least.
I found a Channel 10 video of Indy at Surfers. That was...awful to say the least.
Diffey was one of them. That's all I know...
The situation back then was very problematic. Neither Disney nor the News Corp. had intentions to cover the season on any of their channels. Even if both covered parts of the season there would have been races without any coverage.
This 10 year deal with Versus and ABC at least guerantees that every race is covered, rather then having to negotiate every coverage over any race and potentially having races not covered at all.
It would have become the Indy500 and some random races using the Indy500 cars then.Versus became NBC Sports Network. Now I wonder if such a situation was covered by the contract. I bet there is with something like "if one of the contracted channels gets bought by a different network, the other channel has to agree on putting the races on a different channel of the network" Pure speculation of course, but that would explain why NBC didn't schedule one or two races on the main NBC one. Especially when thinking of the rumours that NBC is interested in covering the Indy500 from 2019 on and ABC wants to continue its contract. A bit of muscle playing.
Man, I love the current V8 crew.
Matt White is the most annoying, though...
He follows Justin Bieber on Twitter....
Would be fun to see Kurt attempt double duty with in 500 and the 600
Go Sato Go!
Wow, what a race.
Even if Sato didn't take it, that was pretty awesome.
Fantastic race and Sato was gracious in defeat. Best race of the weekend by far.
Really impressed with this season so far... not a bad race in the bunch.
If you were putting together a team and had to pick either Hinch or Sato for your sole driver spot....
Who and why?
Who and why?
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