ESPN broadcast its first race in 1981, from North Carolina Motor Speedway (its first live race was later in the year at Atlanta International Raceway), and TNN followed in 1991. Īs time passed, more Winston Cup races ended up on TV. The race drew incredible ratings, in part due to the compelling action both on and off the track, and in part because a major snowstorm on the East Coast kept millions of viewers indoors. Richard Petty won NASCAR's crown-jewel race for the sixth time, but the big story was the post-race fight on the track's infield between Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison, who crashed together on the final lap while leading. On February 18, 1979, CBS presented the first flag-to-flag coverage of the Daytona 500. See also: NASCAR on CBS, NASCAR on TNN, NASCAR on TBS, NASCAR on television in the 1980s, and NASCAR on television in the 1990sĬBS Sports President Neal Pilson and motor-sports editor Ken Squier believed that America would watch an entire stock car race live on television.
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The following table is a list of races from NASCAR's top three series that have been broadcast partially or in their entirety on television during the 1960s.ġ979–2000: Flag-to-flag coverage Car and Track, a weekly auto racing show hosted by Bud Lindemann, recapped all of NASCAR's top-series races in the 1960s and 1970s in a weekly 30-minute syndicated show.In the late 1970s, CBS Sports Spectacular aired some races like Wide World of Sports, they were taped and edited.Throughout the 1970s, ABC presented portions of the Daytona 500, Southern 500, and other important races.
In 1971, it presented a 200-lap race at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in its entirety, the first such broadcast of a NASCAR race.
ABC's Wide World of Sports, the sports anthology program, provided coverage of select NASCAR Winston Cup races in the 1970s. In the ensuing years, but before 1979, there were three main sources of NASCAR telecasts: One of the earliest telecasts of a NASCAR race was the 1960 Daytona 500, parts of which was presented as part of CBS Sports Spectacular, with announcer Bud Palmer. 
See also: NASCAR on television in the 1960s and NASCAR on television in the 1970s Television English language broadcast networks (over-the-air) Current
1.3 English language cable/satellite networks. 1.1 English language broadcast networks (over-the-air). Until 2001, race tracks struck individual agreements with networks to broadcast races, but NASCAR wanted to capitalize on the growing popularity of the sport and announced in 1999 that television contracts would now be centralized that is, instead of making agreements with individual tracks, networks would now negotiate directly with NASCAR for the rights to air a package of races. Since 1992, all NASCAR races have been shown from start to finish, and all have been shown live since 1997. When ESPN came along in 1981, more races began being shown live in their entirety. In 1979, CBS Sports televised the entire 1979 Daytona 500 live from start to finish. There had been a few races shown in their entirety in the 1970s, but these were always recorded and shown days or weeks later. For major races, like the Daytona 500, ABC Sports would show it live for a certain number of laps at the beginning and come back to it to show the end of the race. This is similar to video packages created by NFL Films. These packages were typically 15 to 30 minutes long that were cut from film of the entire race. In the early days of the sport, sports programs like CBS Sports Spectacular and ABC Wide World of Sports would air video highlight packages of NASCAR races. The television and radio rights to broadcast NASCAR on television and radio are one of the most expensive rights of any American sport, with the current television contract with Fox Sports and NBC Sports being worth around US$8 billion.
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