Reflecting & Recapping as the 2023 NASCAR Season Ends

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00:00 SportsFed's Rick Harwin with another $1.3 trillion business of sports with your sports

00:07 news minute reflecting on the NASCAR 2023 season.

00:12 The end of season press conference with execs always filled with positives even though television

00:17 viewership down about 5%.

00:19 Here's the rub.

00:20 Contracts due to expire, more rights fee numbers.

00:25 They make about $820 million annually on the NASCAR TV deal.

00:30 And we're thinking about streaming with either Amazon or Turner Sports.

00:34 The rumor is just like the other sports are doing.

00:37 The streaming outlier which drives up all of the rights.

00:40 Second as far as star power, there is no Dale Earnhardt Jr., there's no Jeff Gordon, but

00:45 they're bristling at the notion that there are no stars today.

00:48 They're waiting for the next deal to get it over the hump.

00:52 Finally internationally, NASCAR execs go to Japan looking at hydrogen racing and other

00:57 kinds of competitive racing across the pond and across the globe.

01:03 (upbeat music)

01:05 [MUSIC]