NASCAR ON TV....SKY SPORTS OR NASN (SETANTA)

[kartman24]

Gearing up for the new NASCAR season, i`m an NASN (Setanta) subscriber just for the racing but saw in this weeks Autosport that Sky sports has signed a 2 year deal to show the races live and from the listings i can see they are showing the Bud shootout as well. NASN`s website is saying they are showing the NASCAR exlusivly starting with the `camping world 300 on the 16th Feb`.......Well that is next Saturdays Nationwide (ex Busch series). So my question is have Sky now got exclusive broadcast rights in the UK for the cup series and therefore i will be needing to switch my subscription?........Martin

[kartman24]

Ok, answered my own question with a couple of phone calls. Sky outbid Setanta and will be showing the Cup series, Setanta will be showing the Nationwide series...........subscription has been changed.

Edited by kartman24 on Saturday 9th February 15:51

[The Wiz]

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12993_31081...

[Chocmonster]

Or you could just save money and watch it online.

[johnph]

Chocmonster said:

Or you could just save money and watch it online.

Where? TVU Networks has Speed Channel, and intermittently FOX9 (which changed schedule and decided not to show the Bud Shootout).

[Chocmonster]

Speed via TVU is the main one but there is also a Mexican site which shows racing when it involves a Telmex sponsored driver. http://www.transmisionenlinea.prodigy.com.mx/

I've also used SopCast in the past to get channels like ESPN to watch the IRL.

[onomatopoeia]

Sopcast and TVU stopped carrying Fox and ABC last year making watching the Nextel Cup races online rather difficult. I only tried when Setanta decided they would rather show rugby to people in Ireland than Nascar though. Since the Busch (as was) was on ESPN2 in the US that never appeared on either online streaming service that I saw.

Hopefully with Sky having four channels they will have no excuse for not showing all the races live. I imagine NASN will probably delay most of the Nationwide races to show blokes playing rounders like they did last year .

[johnph]

onomatopoeia said:

Sopcast and TVU stopped carrying Fox and ABC last year making watching the Nextel Cup races online rather difficult. I only tried when Setanta decided they would rather show rugby to people in Ireland than Nascar though. Since the Busch (as was) was on ESPN2 in the US that never appeared on either online streaming service that I saw.

Hopefully with Sky having four channels they will have no excuse for not showing all the races live. I imagine NASN will probably delay most of the Nationwide races to show blokes playing rounders like they did last year .

Last year you could watch most of the Busch Series races for free on nascar.com, and I believe they'll be doing it again his year (with the Nationwide Series).

[R39S1]

Last season you could watch a one hour review programme of each race on a freeview channel during the week, thursday 7pm (IRRC), it was called Five US or Five life; somewhere up there between the shopping channels and the kids stuff but befoe you get to the exciting world of 24 hour news. Ok not the same as watching the whole thing live, but It was an enjoyable show, the usual over excited american presenters, insane graphics, and extra slow-mo on the crashes.

[Tam Lin]

R39S1 said:

Ok not the same as watching the whole thing live,

It's not the whole thing live that's the selling point, it's the nice regular Sunday evening bit of entertainment to take your mind off Monday that appeals. Chav sports subscription it is, then. I'll never live it down

[onomatopoeia]

Tam Lin said:

R39S1 said:

Ok not the same as watching the whole thing live,

It's not the whole thing live that's the selling point, it's the nice regular Sunday evening bit of entertainment to take your mind off Monday that appeals. Chav sports subscription it is, then. I'll never live it down

Just try to tune out the Sky studio "pundits" when they come on during the yellows. It would at least help if they knew the names of the drivers and something about the sport.

[R39S1]

Tam Lin said:

R39S1 said:

Ok not the same as watching the whole thing live,

It's not the whole thing live that's the selling point, it's the nice regular Sunday evening bit of entertainment to take your mind off Monday that appeals. Chav sports subscription it is, then. I'll never live it down

It difficult enough to get the Mrs to understand the need to watch F1 live, she'd have an epi if I started watching NASCAR live and full fat! I keep telling her she's lucky, I have no interest in football or such things, but don't mess with my motorsport woman!!!