| | | | | | | | |  | | | | If only we could get a commercial break from TNT.
"NASCAR would like to thank its loyal fans and we hope you enjoyed today’s broadcast." Repeat, "We hope you enjoyed today’s broadcast."
Are you kidding me? It is a NASCAR event, but they don’t administer the telecast. So let's not throw NASCAR under the bus! The bus needs to run over and back up over the TNT management team. "Wide open coverage" means we have to put up with inserted commercials. Okay I get it, we have to pay for all of this right? Honestly though, do we need an insert every lap and a half? Every lap and a half?
If you watched the last two Cup races on the boob tube, do you have "The Closer," "Subway," "Coors" and so on firmly etched in your mind? My father-in-law, a life-long NASCAR fan, got up in disgust at lap 100 of the Daytona race and went to bed vowing to never watch another TNT broadcast. Not a very enjoyable telecast.
Everyone has opinions on the subject and if enough folks make noise about it, they might adjust the deal and get it right.
Kudos to Kyle Petty and Wally Dallenbach. Good chemistry there and good experience with a real sense of humor to entertain you. I am certain they have the talent to get it right.
TNT has a long way to go to catch up to Fox, Speed and ESPN. Give them time I suppose? Many writers and bloggers have beat it to death, and rightfully so. The only good thing that comes from this type of merchandising is that we turn on the radio and listen to MRN. Barney Hall is still the class of the field. Or, we just go to the race in the first place. | | | Permalink | Comments (0) | | | | | | | | | | |
