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NASCAR TV rankings for 2024: Who watched, who did not and why battling the NFL is dying
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NASCAR TV rankings for 2024: Who watched, who did not and why battling the NFL is dying

By Miles Cooper November 19, 2024
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Right here’s a technique of taking a look at it: Some 330 million Individuals, give or take, ignored televised On a weekly foundation, no much less!

And one other approach to have a look at it: Almost 3 million, on common, tuned in every week to from Daytona, Darlington and all factors past.

Not too long ago launched numbers present a 1% enhance in common viewership , which is best than the choice, however nonetheless you could be questioning …

If 99% of the parents aren’t watching, why is NASCAR nonetheless capable of wrangle a multi-billion-dollar media deal from the networks?

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NASCAR TV rankings for 2024: Who watched, who did not and why battling the NFL is dying

Why NASCAR can nonetheless get wealthy from Fox and NBC (and, beginning subsequent yr, TNT)

As a result of stay sports activities continues to be the king of advert gross sales, and advert gross sales produce the gusher from which the {dollars} flood. Your favourite sitcom or drama on community tv may draw extra eyeballs, however the advert execs and company advertising professionals find out about your nasty little behavior of fast-forwarding by means of the commercials.

Can’t try this through the Auto Dealer EchoPark Automotive 400, are you able to? And sure, that’s the precise identify of an precise car race.

Comparatively talking, NASCAR’s common of two.9 million viewers every week is about the identical because the PGA Tour’s Sunday fare, and practically twice the NBA common, although the NBA is broadcasting extra video games and extra usually, which ends up in decrease numbers.

Leigh Diffey’s storytelling potential within the late phases of races is unparalleled. Earlier than this, he was establishing the Kyle Busch story. Leigh’s the most effective within the enterprise

NASCAR, others, dwarfed by NFL viewership

What concerning the NFL?

Let’s give the others an opportunity to show their heads earlier than revealing that.

It’s about 18 million units of eyeballs per telecast. You possibly can rattling close to mix all of the others (together with MLB, NHL and even ESPN’s occasional cornhole nationals) and never get to that quantity.

As traditional, the Daytona 500 was the most-watched race, at 6 million viewers. Would’ve most likely been increased if it hadn’t been postponed from Sunday to Monday because of rain. I feel. Monday supplied no viable sporting different to NASCAR, so who is aware of if it helped or damage?

The bottom, amazingly, was a playoff race — the Spherical of 12 opener at Kansas. Why? Soccer season, keep in mind?

How a lot is the NASCAR community deal price?

This previous yr introduced the final season on the present seven-year community contract with Fox, NBC and their cable associates (FS1 and USA). A brand new seven-year deal begins in 2025 with Fox, NBC, Amazon Prime and TNT.

NASCAR does not disclose the rights charges, however business insiders peg the general seven-year deal at $7.7 billion, or a median of $1.1 billion per yr.

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