Update: I closed this live blog at halfway because I could not take another two hours of watching the TV coverage from NASCAR on FOX. Thanks to the fans who stopped by, although most of them had left long before I closed the chat. This was the worst TV coverage of a NASCAR race in the four years of the current TV contract.
Here we go with a fast-paced race from the Monster Mile in Dover, DE. There are only two Sprint Cup Series points races remaining for the NASCAR on FOX gang this season.
Chris Myers hosts the pre-race show from the Hollywood Hotel. Darrell Waltrip and Jeff Hammond are alongside of Myers. This is a full one-hour show, so it may have some extended interviews and features. The rumor is that David Hill, the top FOX Sports executive, is moving to change the format of the pre-race show.
Mike Joy has seemed tired this season. There might be some great reasons why. Larry McReynolds and Waltrip have dominated Joy during the exciting portions of the racing. In the past, Joy made memorable calls that lived on in highlights for years. Now, it's they hysterical screams of Waltrip and McReynolds that mark excitement on the track, including the final laps.
In response, Joy has seemed at times more like ESPN's Jerry Punch during his ill-fated time in the booth. The excitement level is definitely down and the domination of Waltrip shows no sign of slacking anytime soon.
On pit road are the best reporters in the sport. Steve Byrnes, Matt Yocum, Dick Berggren and Krista Voda represent a lot of NASCAR experience. The emphasis of the telecasts, particularly in the later stages of the race, has not included these four talented individuals.
This is a big week for FOX because of Director Artie Kempner. His annual charity golf tournament supporting Autism research was this week and featured TV personalities, drivers and supporters of the cause. Hopefully, there will be a recap of this event on the program.
Dover is a grind for television networks. The laps are relatively fast, the camera angles are very different and there are two obstructions over the track. The low-angle cameras that pick up the cars coming off the turns are frequently in use. Keeping the corner in the camera shot is important, as most of the action takes place through the corners.
FOX has already announced that they will be doing an extended post-race show over on the SPEED network. Not really sure how that is going over with the SPEED gang, who will be taping the Victory Lane post-race show in the background while FOX is live.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 218 of 218Time to clean the bathroom and start laundry. More exciting than trying to watch this abortion.
Well JD with all respect to you, and I do respect you.
The people that left were encouraged to do so by our fearless leader.
I thought we were supposed to be here to be critical of TV racing Broadcast so they might improve, and not to throw in the towel.
That accomplishes nothing as the networks do listen to you. That is a fact!
Nothing about where is your driver or why. Guess they figure we can read the ticker.
This tight shots is getting really old.
Watched my tape, have another beauty show coming on in 20 mins. TV is on the race, but I'm not watching. Looked up one time & saw a tight shot of a bumper. What's the point?
600 miles at Charlotte of this?
TVtrucker,
You are late to the party. This is year four. There comes a time when enough is enough. I have a life, this has been fun, but there is nothing more to say about what NASCAR on TV has become. I need to take a walk! A long walk.
With 43 cars on the track can someone tell me why we needed to see a CLOSEUP of the star on the 39?
jd, i just don't know what more can be said. it's not tragic by a long shot -- the suicide death of my oldest daughter's best friend's 20 year old brother on monday is tragic.
this? this is just so unwatchable and painful. in addition, it insults fans, teams and our sport.
we've tried, we've really tried to explain what makes a solid broadcast and what stinks up the show. these folk may be individually nice people but the product they're putting out is horrible.
for it to drive me away may be inconsequential to them. but for it to drive you away? that's a statement.
i say: do away with the "your take" after this race and blast 'em with your opinion. they deserve it. i know you won't b/c you respect us enough to have our opinions out there for them to read without your taking "coloring our perceptions."
but this is just so bad. . .
JD, if you close this chat then you destroy not only all that you have worked for but also disappoint many of us that rely on you to be the only outlet and hope that one day we can be a voice in what happens with television racing broadcast. Please don't be a start and park.
I've never noticed so much as I have this year, but it gets so annoying hearing Larry Mac always using the car number when mentioning a driver....."Kevin Harvick in the 29 car gets around Martin Truex in the 56". That would be like an NFL announcer saying "There's Peyton Manning in the 18 uniform throwing a pass to Dallas Clark in the 44".
I'm not walking away from this race and I encourage you guys to stick with it too. Maybe not with the FOX broadcast, or maybe with added sources of info, but stick around on here!
Just got out of the shower so missed from the Ambrose caution to now.
Meyers in an echo on commercial promo.
Thanks for that JC, guessing you learned that the hard way?
He did alot of work on the Busch Series though so maybe it was different?
I've been emailing a friend & tried the race on the big tv. All i see are ZOOM car cams/USELESS camera shots of a blank track then blur of zoom....
I have given up after reading todays' comment.
Remember when you used to PLAN your days around the races :-(
...Now telecasts are like the slow death of something you love.
Off to water newly planted flowers
Jr 7 laps down? anything said about it?
@TVtrucker ---
JD hasn't influenced me to leave. FOX has done all the work for him.
We've been very patient for the last 3yrs trying to get the networks to listen to us --- the average fan. ESPN to their credit has made changes.
This day's telecast from FOX is the pits. We've talked this season until we're blue in the face about their fascination with roof cam, face cam, bumper cam, and single cars in focus instead of the racing.
I'm not throwing in the towel, I'm too busy throwing up in it.
Not true Trucker, I just end the pain for me and other fans.
Going to suggest you all head over to SBNation and join Jeff Gluck's race chat.
We are going to close at halfway, can't take another two hours of this.
Going to ponder what to do next. It probably will not involve NASCAR.
=(
TVTrucker: i make my own decisions, independent of what jd says/writes. as i stated: i watched for an hour w/o TDP, w/o Twitter, w/o leaderboard.
my decision to turn it off is a result of what i was watching and it is abysmal.
i've been on TDP since the beginning, haven't always agreed with JD but have tried to be as objective as possible about the broadcast itself. maybe it's b/c dover is my home track, i dunno. but this is just such a disjointed, inconsistent, uninformative, dumbed-down broadcast that i simpy can't watch it anymore.
i'll touch base with TDP/twitter for a bit but it's looking like MRN for me while i do other tasks.
OK guys, we are done for today. Sorry for the hassles but this is beyond anything we have dealt with before. Going to think about what to do next.
Have fun and see you all later!
JD
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