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[FLB]

loki, on 19 Feb 2025 - 19:59, said:

At ‘Dega they’d still be up from the campground parties the night before…

Would they still be throwing beer cans at cars, though?

 

[Nathan]

I feel in NASCAR the under 34's don't have many drivers to get behind.  Boring AF and too polished/California.

[jonpollak]

Cleetus FTW
Jp

[Jim Thurman]

Nathan, on 21 Feb 2025 - 04:42, said:

I feel in NASCAR the under 34's don't have many drivers to get behind.  Boring AF and too polished/California.

What is "too California"?

 

Polished yes. NASCAR, and sponsors, want what used to be called "metrosexual" types. IOW, non-rural.

 

Tyler Reddick is from Corning, California, a rural place towards the northern end of the Sacramento Valley that has a population of all of 8,000 and is known for olives.

 

There's also nothing polished about where Kevin Harvick and Jimmie Johnson come from either.

Edited by Jim Thurman, 22 February 2025 - 20:23.

[Jim Thurman]

FLB, on 20 Feb 2025 - 16:37, said:

Would they still be throwing beer cans at cars, though?

Without Jeff, or without something going against either Dale Sr. or Dale Jr., Tony...no. Or, at least not as likely. With the Talladega crowd, who can be certain?

 

This was a good example of doing the right thing, but for the wrong reasons  . Reasons beyond the level of their knowledge or comprehension 

 

EDIT: This was tongue-in-cheek. Nothing personal against Jeff. Now, if they'd have known enough to throw beer cans at Bickford, or his enablers...

Edited by Jim Thurman, 21 February 2025 - 19:24.

[FLB]

It's not just F1 for ESPN: ESPN to End MLB Coverage Starting in 2026 | TV Tech

 

MLB, ESPN Agree to Drop National TV Contract Following 2025 Season

[loki]

Jim Thurman, on 21 Feb 2025 - 17:46, said:

What is "too California"?

 

Surfing every day?…

[Afterburner]

FLB, on 21 Feb 2025 - 19:18, said:

It's not just F1 for ESPN: ESPN to End MLB Coverage Starting in 2026 | TV Tech

MLB, ESPN Agree to Drop National TV Contract Following 2025 Season

All-in on SEC football I guess.

[Jim Thurman]

loki, on 21 Feb 2025 - 21:22, said:

Surfing every day?…

You know they're either out surfin' or they've got a party goin'  

 

Want a line or two from "Drag City" or "The Anaheim, Azusa & Cucamonga Sewing Circle, Book Review and Timing Association"?

[jonpollak]

HyVee bails on Iowa.
https://x.com/brucem...rQm55GKcaIwUsbg

Jp

[FLB]

jonpollak, on 22 Feb 2025 - 23:28, said:

HyVee bails on Iowa.
https://x.com/brucem...rQm55GKcaIwUsbg

Jp

Not surprising, unfortunately 

[jonpollak]

Those afternoon concerts were cringe at best.

[/lighting guy]
Jp

[Jim Thurman]

"Too Hollywood" would be acceptable, although anyone familiar with Hollywood knows Hollywood isn't even "Hollywood." It does have the best Thai food scene in the country though, and good Armenian food, but I digress...

[loki]

I suppose “too Studio City”, too “Burbank” or too “Atlanta” doesn’t have the same ring

[Sterzo]

"Too Croydon" perhaps?

[FLB]

Seen in an another post. I think NBC may be vying for F1 rights in the US as well. Six months ago, I wouldn't have expected Lando Norris to give an interview like that to NBC News:

 

Edited by FLB, 09 March 2025 - 15:50.

[pup]

Just watched a decent interview with Norris on NBC. At 20+ minutes long, they’re definitely taking their bid for the sport seriously. IMO, a much more enjoyable interview than what I’m used to seeing from the Sky team.

Edit lol, FLB you snuck in there while I wasn’t looking!

Edited by pup, 09 March 2025 - 15:51.

[Afterburner]

pup, on 09 Mar 2025 - 15:50, said:

Just watched a decent interview with Norris on NBC. At 20+ minutes long, they’re definitely taking their bid for the sport seriously. IMO, a much more enjoyable interview than what I’m used to seeing from the Sky team.

Edit lol, FLB you snuck in there while I wasn’t looking!

So Diffey would probably be lead again, but who to back him up? Jolyon Palmer?

[jonpollak]

Put it ON THE COCK !!
Jp

[AustinF1]

Please don't let it be NBC. 

[aportinga]

AustinF1, on 10 Mar 2025 - 17:36, said:

Please don't let it be NBC. 

 

Yeah they did Indycar really -  really bad! They bumped one race (last minute) to CNBC which got around 7,500 watchers. I feel it would be the death of F1 in the US unless Liberty had a solid contract.

[AustinF1]

aportinga, on 10 Mar 2025 - 18:32, said:

Yeah they did Indycar really -  really bad! They bumped one race (last minute) to CNBC which got around 7,500 watchers. I feel it would be the death of F1 in the US unless Liberty had a solid contract.

This is the one way I see it working out well for us, with F1 realizing how much of a difference it made for ESPN to have ad-free race sponsorship, etc, and dictating those terms to NBC or whomever they sign up. If they sign with NBC and leave it all up to them, we're screwed. We (my family and the F1 fans we know) really, really, REALLY don't want to go back to NBC's insane amount of long ad breaks, etc.

Edited by AustinF1, 10 March 2025 - 19:56.

[aportinga]

AustinF1, on 10 Mar 2025 - 19:25, said:

This is the one way it could work, with F1 realizing how much of a difference it made for ESPN to have ad-free race sponsorship, etc, and dictating those terms to NBC or whomever they sign up. If they sign with NBC and leave it all up to them, we're screwed. We (my family and the F1 fans we know) really, really, REALLY don't want to go back to NBC's insane amount of long ad breaks, etc.

 

Absolutely on the commercials and LD is terrible! I just got a chance to enjoy Indycar without him ruining it completely. 

[JacnGille]

I just check my DirecTV Guide for this weekend. I don't see any Practice or Qualifying listed for this weekend, just the Prerace Show and the Race itself.

 

Just checked TVRacer.com Listing. It appears that DirecTV hasn't fully updated their Guide. Par for the course for them/\.

Edited by JacnGille, 10 March 2025 - 23:32.

[F1 Mike]

If we're to look at it from a purely commercial angle, Liberty could sell a big money deal to NBC. Their coverage would have the usual adverts and those who don't like the ad breaks can subscribe to F1TV.
For the consumer that would be annoying, but if I was the rights holder I'd be seeing that as a win

[pdac]

F1 Mike, on 11 Mar 2025 - 09:45, said:

If we're to look at it from a purely commercial angle, Liberty could sell a big money deal to NBC. Their coverage would have the usual adverts and those who don't like the ad breaks can subscribe to F1TV.
For the consumer that would be annoying, but if I was the rights holder I'd be seeing that as a win

 

Exactly what I was thinking.

[loki]

aportinga, on 10 Mar 2025 - 18:32, said:

Yeah they did Indycar really -  really bad! They bumped one race (last minute) to CNBC which got around 7,500 watchers. I feel it would be the death of F1 in the US unless Liberty had a solid contract.

The races would have to go to network just like Fox does for Indycar.  Except for Mexico, Miami and Austin they’re all early enough not to bump into Cup.  My guess is same Sky coverage, no ads on the live broadcast (like ESPN did, only ads after the fact on demand or repeats).  Quali and FP are likely to get bounced around.  On ESPN many FPs weren’t on basic cable.

Edited by loki, 12 March 2025 - 05:31.

[ray b]

espn has 1 p #2 ONLY THIS WEEKEND

 

NO Q !!!!

and the race on espn2 at 12/30 sat/sun esdt

 

how to get Q ? pm me

[AustinF1]

ray b, on 13 Mar 2025 - 16:32, said:

espn has 1 p #2 ONLY THIS WEEKEND

 

NO Q !!!!

and the race on espn2 at 12/30 sat/sun esdt

 

how to get Q ? pm me

On Youtube TV, their guide shows all sessions on ESPN channels,  but FP3 is listed on ESPN Deportes for some reason. I don't have Deportes, but FP3 will also stream live on ESPN3/ESPN+. 

 

Times are central US.

 

FP1:  Thu 2025,  ESPN News

FP2:  Thu 2355,  ESPN

FP3: Fri 2025, ESPN Deportes, ESPN3/ESPN+

Qual: Fri 2355,  ESPNU

Pre-Race: Sat 2130,  ESPN News

GP:  Sat 2255, ESPN

Edited by AustinF1, 13 March 2025 - 16:58.

[AustinF1]

F1 Mike, on 11 Mar 2025 - 09:45, said:

If we're to look at it from a purely commercial angle, Liberty could sell a big money deal to NBC. Their coverage would have the usual adverts and those who don't like the ad breaks can subscribe to F1TV.
For the consumer that would be annoying, but if I was the rights holder I'd be seeing that as a win

Nah. They might do that, but I'm not doing F1TV again. I'm sure I'm not the only one ... esp if I have to do it  because they sold to a network who shows ads during the race just to get me to buy F1TV. I'll just delay watching, then fast-forward through the ads. F em both.

[loki]

Ah yes.  The old ESPNU. That one can be hard to find.  News and U are not on basic cable.   If you can link your basic cable/sat/streaming to the ESPN app you’ll get it any of the English language channels except ESPN F1 from ESPN+.  ESPN3 is streaming only.  A couple times I’ve had them stream the Deportes feed live on the English channel.  Once they caught it after a few mins.  The other time they had to replace the on demand stream with the right version as the entire session was the Spanish language feed.  The Deportes feed is the world feed video with Spanish commentary for the Mexico and South American ESPN markets.

[ray b]

not allowed to bwitch about third world languages here or in miami

but non-english tv in America SUCKS

 

but yes espn has too many versions and far too often they swap on the same weekend

the F-1 COVERAGE 

 

BTW FP2 STARTS NOW 1:00 AM ESDT ON ESPN 2 HERE

Edited by ray b, 14 March 2025 - 04:57.