The TV contract with Fox and NBC runs through 2024. Only 48,000 tickets were sold for a race last month at Bristol, a speed bowl with a capacity of 162,000. Americans might not love cars, or racing, as much as they used to, and you can’t turn back the clock. Check out the Different History & Alternate NASCAR History Wiki to read about alternate NASCAR historical scenarios and much more. TV ratings are falling in almost every sport. Stock Car Racing Wiki neither endorses nor obtains funding through the advertiser above.
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Favorite drivers have retired, replaced by younger drivers with less Southern charm, and longtime sponsors to whom fans have shown brand loyalty have left the sport. So there is no continuity, no unspooling of the narrative thread. But ratings tumble.įans grumble that there are, or seem to be, more advertisements wedged into a telecast. If more fans would tune in, NASCAR would deserve credit. The most preposterous innovation was to divide races into “stages,” where points are awarded after each segment and the cars are bunched back up and then restarted. NASCAR has changed its rules so many times to gin up competition that the show seems contrived. A race has a buildup, like the plot in a book or a movie. Strategies develop among the leaders who emerge early, and the winner is the driver who races hard while dodging trouble. Longtime NASCAR fans simply want to flip on the TV, settle in and watch a close and entertaining race unfold. (Numbers courtesy of .)īut enough with the stats. The 18-49 percentage was 38% for an NHL playoff game Sunday afternoon between Pittsburgh and Washington, or 839,000 of 2.175 million. In contrast, 45% of the TV viewers for the NBA playoff game Sunday afternoon on ABC between Indiana and Cleveland - 3.088 million of 6.804 million - were ages 18-49. Viewers 18-49 constituted more than 26% of the viewing audience in 2017. Only about 23% of viewers for this year’s race were ages 18-49. Take a closer look at the Talladega TV numbers. The first six Cup races in 2016 drew 43.13 million. The first six Cup races this year, including the Daytona 500, drew a total of 31.07 million on TV.
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