NASCAR SCHEDULE

Introduction:

As usual the off-season for NASCAR has been quite busy and pleasant.  At the first race of the year, a lot of down time is absent when the season runs from February to November.  The Daytona 500 is also considered as the most significant events.

NASCAR TV Schedule:

The Nextel Cup races will be distributed among the TV associates as follows:

1. The Daytona 500 and the next 12 races are scheduled to air on Fox.
2. The 7 late summer races, with the prized Brickyard 400 at Indy will be broadcasted by ESPN.
3. The Pepsi 400 Daytona and the next 6 races will be telecasted by TNT.
4. The final 10 races will be broadcasted by ABC. ABC will air 6 races while ESPN/ESPN2 will air 29 races of the Busch series.
5. The latest TV agreement was signed at the extreme of 2005 and is valid from 2007 to 2014.  US$600M per year or US$4.8B is the total value that was quoted for the deal.  The total value tends to be a discouragement for any one network to cover.  It can be distributed among the available networks at a definite extent, as the NASCAR involves to “premier” events throughout the entire season.

Distributions:

The information of the contract are unmistakably been held at private by NASCAR other than the total value. A slight explanation was provided that the distribution was like 25% to the teams, 10% to NASCAR, and the balanced 65% to the tracks.  The quoted 10% amount is quite low, if considered the amount paid to the owners of NASCAR’s.