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It just seems like a huge step down for Haley. They must be offering him a lot of dough.
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IIRC SHR supplies the motors, so atleast he'll be in potentially counterfeit equipment rather than scraps left over by RCR.
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SHR doesn't build motors - all the full-time Ford motors come from Roush-Yates. Further, the technical alliance ended at the end of last season - Rick Ware Racing now has one with Roush Fenway Keselowski.
It certainly looks like Cody Ware isn't coming back to the family business.
It certainly looks like Cody Ware isn't coming back to the family business.
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Denny's take on his move was...interesting to say the least. Larson showed some restraint in his interview. He's got every right to be mad.
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It shows that, while traditional cable is dying, the streaming/cord-cutting that is killing it isn't quite ready for prime time.
It is The CW's third foray into broadcasting sports, as it is the home of LIV golf, and earlier this month, took over the near-dead Bally Sports/Diamond Sports ACC contract for a bunch of college football and basketball games. It also picked off the rights to "Inside the NFL" after CBS booted it from Paramount+.
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Live sports is the only profitable thing left on TV anymore, so it's not surprising that CW's scrambling to pick up any sports-related contracts that they can reasonably afford to hold. $115 million a year is couch cushion money for the rights to a national series.
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Unless you're a cable sports network. Bally/Diamond is in bankruptcy, and Warner Discovery is jettisoning Root Sports by the end of the year. Even Disney is looking for the exits regarding ESPN.
I haven't been able to find what Fox/Comcast is paying for the Xfinity Series portion of their combined $820 million/year contracts, especially since it's less than clear whether that includes the Fox-only truck series. That said, $115 million for the Xfinity series seems like a bargain, and the fact that the streamers would not match CW's offer doesn't seem to bode well for NASCAR's hope of getting to $1 billion/year.
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True, locking stuff away on specialty channels and expecting people to pay a premium for them doesn't work now because there's just too many ways around it, and people are far more reluctant to buy a full cable package exclusively for the sports channels anymore. As far as general network programming goes though they're still making bank on live sports, and even if CW is the perennial backmarker in the network race behind the Big 4, this'll still be a boon for them in the long run.
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Truex is staying in the 19 through at least the end of next year.
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Wouldn't surprise me if we get a Nemechek-to-the-42-full-time-in-'24 announcement this week now that that seat's open and LMC will be itching to knock today's news off the front page.
Truex returning to JGR for 2024 in year-by-year deal
Martin Truex Jr. is sticking around for at least one more year. The 2017 NASCAR Cup Series champion confirmed Saturday at Michigan International Speedway that he has signed a contract extension to …
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Wouldn't surprise me if we get a Nemechek-to-the-42-full-time-in-'24 announcement this week now that that seat's open and LMC will be itching to knock today's news off the front page.
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^This. Already can see the Darlington throwback.
Also, Bell can breathe easy knowing he won't be booted out of the 20 now that the 42 opened up.
