They are calling it FOX NASCAR Sunday. Basically, it's still Chris Myers, Jeff Hammond and Darrell Waltrip from the Hollywood Hotel in Daytona.
FOX starts the Sprint Cup Series season on a cold and clear day in Florida. NASCAR has undergone several months of changes that have resulted in a solid increase in fan interest. Now, the action on the track has to live up to the hype.
The Hollywood Hotel is going to be the place for FOX to rise to the occasion. Myers has been both the best and worst of what NASCAR needs on TV. On this day, he cannot act as the "California outsider" who does not know a lugnut from a fuel cell. TV viewers need the informed and well-spoken Myers seen on other programs.
The NASCAR on FOX pit reporters are Steve Byrnes, Matt Yocum, Krista Voda and Dick Berggren. This team has been together for a long time and each has worked very hard to be accepted in the sport. FOX continues to be the standard in this area.
Mike Joy has been calling the action in Daytona for a long time. His challenge this February is to help the sport get back on solid footing after a tough 2009. There is little doubt he is the right man for the job. Having already handled the Bud Shoot Out and the Gatorade Duels, the big race is in good hands.
Larry McReynolds has been keeping a low profile and limiting his comments so far this season. After a big bump in the road last year that caused hard feelings all around, McReynold is looking to have a smooth telecast. Still the most detail oriented analyst on NASCAR TV, he should be able to get himself back on track before the checkered flag.
Fan comments have been flying about Darrell Waltrip this season. He was called out by Jack Roush for negative comments about the sport. Then, Denny Hamlin said DW was always telling the drivers how to drive. The bottom line is that Waltrip has been the most high-profile analyst in the sport for a decade. Criticism comes with the territory.
DW will be clearly in the spotlight once the action begins as the story of bump-drafting begins to unfold. NASCAR is turning the drivers loose and has changed many rules since last season. From contact in the corners to the green/white/checkered finish, things are going to be very different in this race.
FOX Sports executive David Hill admitted he was wrong about the later start times. The race today will be underway by 1:20PM ET. Hill admitted he would back off with the Digger character after negative reactions from fans. Finally, Hill said there would be no online streaming of this race because that protected the FOX local stations. That really does not help fans without TV access.
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«Oldest ‹Older 801 – 878 of 878finally they moved the 82 out of the way and I didn't see the pass BECAUSE they had the camera on the 48
JD, might the truck have figured that going to commercial under red would risk people not coming back, but that people would stay put on FOX under commercial with 20 laps to go?
MRN just went to commercial with 15 to go.
I wanna be post #800 for today.
Two wrongs do not make a right, Richard.
yes that was a very lame comment by Mike Joy. He sure hasn't brought his A game today.
ANNOnimus,
my directv still has all channels on hot pass
TV Breaks during a red flag don't count.... The networks don't get paid for them.
If Johnson says the hole is back and it's huge,... show it!
better hurry, Anon, if you want to be 800
commercial breaks don't count in a red flag? really? maybe that explains why they spend an hour and 43 minutes talking about nothing with no commercials.
JD, just wondering whether I'd learned how to think TV?
Blogger GinaV24 said...
commercial breaks don't count in a red flag? really? maybe that explains why they spend an hour and 43 minutes talking about nothing with no commercials.
That's exactly why. You think they like having to fill that kind of time?
I just muted both MRN and Fox. If they are doing commercials right now, I'm not listening to either of them.
Yes DW, that was crazy. But all we saw was a bumper.
JJ blaming the pot hole. Go figure
Well, I can tell you I didn't enjoy it that much either.
48 with a DNF in the 500, wow.
BIG WRECK ? they blew that Arnie
And again, it takes Fox forever to find the wreck, when I saw the smoke as the front cars were coming on the straight.
Fox has dropped the ball. DW yelling about a wreck and it takes 3-4 seconds to show it. are they taking cues from ESPN??
wow, there's the big wreck. Wow, how many times has Ryan had a problem in the 500
Why is it taking the truck an eon to get to the wrecks??? Geez....:(
A big wreck and Fox doesn't bother to show it until after the fact. The people in the production truck must have their heads stuck up their backsides.
Wonder if the splitter had some Extenze there...
Sorry JD
Producer and director drop the ball again.
Bet we get a GWC.
This rapidly approaching 1st season TNT Sonoma bad.
so this is a "natural" GWC it looks like, so we could potentially have FOUR restarts yet in this race...
Looks like they were concentrating on the leaders, but not being able to call the backstretch camera in a flash is ridiculous.
I don't guess it would be allowable to ask whether they considered using Extenz to patch the hole - maybe with some of Jimmie Johnson's hair spray?
JD, your blog about the TV coverage should get some interesting comments.
This has been awful
Enough people must of called and complained to DirecTV. They woke up the sleeping operator and the channels are back.
They cut off the channels early once in the first year the first time a race ran late. I called and the dumbbottom customer service rep was telling me to do a total reboot of my system taking 15 minutes to try and get the channel back! I told him that I knew the problem was that somebody cut the signal off!
What is ESPN showing this time of year? Any chance they can just take over the Fox races?
big story today was hole in the track instead of hole on the track ;)
I see a major disaster here.
TNT is next and ESPN comes back in July.
@sally - yeah, I foresee terrible trouble and LOTS of wrecked race cars.
are they trying to hold off so this will be the gwc?
I predict we have all three attempts at the GWC.
place your bets!! Winner? On green or under yellow?
Burton under caution is my bet
Bowyer and Harvick are tied for most laps led
I'm calling Harvick under caution
caution
attempt #1 getting ready to happen
Best line of the night: Imagine that.
oh, please, don't let's start on that HMS car crap.
So if we get all 3 attempts who runs out of fuel up front?
New season. Maybe Nascar will always call yellows when they should.
What, drinking? Me?
@David, there were a bunch who didn't stop, so running out of fuel is possible. the roush cars usually make pretty good mileage but some of those others could have problems.
Losing a lot of respect for Mike Joy, used to think he was a straight-shooter
bevo, I'm not sure what is going on with him today, he's definitely not been his usual self.
1st GWC attempt.
Time for attempt #2
here we go again, more wrecks. this multi-attempt deal for the gwc is a terrible idea
they almost had a big wreck at the front of the field
Man this is a debacle.
Man-o-man, can anything else go wrong for NASCAR today?
Man, another close call for the 24
Who said cautions breed cautions?
The two most memorable moments of this race will be the potholes and excessive damage due to multiple GWC's.
any bets on how many cars will be left running at the end of this race?
Hate for the 24 from Larry Mac...nice!!!!
1 to go, 2nd GWC attempt -- my stomach still hurts
Prediction for next week - DW and LM will be in full HMS kiss up mode.
It is too much to ask for professionalism from the Fox broadcasters. Yet, if JG was on trackside, Larry Mac would be fawning all over him.
They are all two-faced.
shoot, I hate those replays, I thought it was action today.
I am sooo ready for the race I couldn't wait for to be OVER!!!
Joy needs to be calling this not LM and DW
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WTF Is that white flag graphic? Horrible. Distracting.
DW needs to get off Dale Jr
Complete lack of professionalism by DW.
The white flag grapic covered the top quarter of the screen.
FOX has yet to even look at the wreck.
somthing happened behind all that since Gordon just asked if he should driive it back. Of course I have NO idea since they aren't showing it.
D.W. yelling Go Junior Go was disgusting
DW...SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can Fox possibly take up anymore screen space with that banner?
I'm going to wait to post my comments.
and then when DW realized Jr wasn't going to win, he started slurping on Jamie. Terrible
Congrats to Jamie. Glad he held off Jr and got the win. Good for him.
I want to see what happened to my driver, too, darn it.
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