The start of Daytona 500 saw a big note increase, from one year to the next, but a audience did not come back after the long late rain.
According to Fox Sports, the race On average 6.761 million viewers on the network. The viewer culminated at the beginning, with nearly 8 million observation between 2 and 3:15 p.m., a delay which included the pace of President Trump in front of the field, as well as the first 11 laps of the green flag of the race before the race before Rain delay the duration of almost four hours.
Overall, the average observation is 13% in advance last year, when an average of almost 6 million looked on Monday after a total Sunday Washout. As usual, Daytona 500 was the most watched sporting event of the weekend.
For a certain context, the Indy 500 from last year drew an average of 5.3 million viewers.
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For Nascar, the figures are down but the pay days continue to increase
NASCAR remains well for the peak years, from 2001 to 2015, when most of the years have reached an average of 15 to 19 million.
An exploded media market, which now includes people who look at their phones or laptops, often sees a part of the blame for the decline.
Others also cite the exodus of the favorites of fans of that time – such as Rusty Wallace, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Jimmie Johnson and the most popular runner of Nascar of this century, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
No more perspective: out of the 40 most watched car races in the United States last year, 38 were NASCAR races, the other two being the Indy 500 (it was n ° 2) and the Formula 1 race of Miami (n ° 16). Of the 38 NASCAR events, the only cup cup race was the race for the Chicago XFINITY series (n ° 39).
The ratings for most sports entertainment companies – excluding NFL and university football – are out of their summits of previous times, but sport remains a money manufacturer for leagues and networks that are looking for live event coverage and the advertising revenues it offers.
For example, NASCAR figures are not where they were in the past, but the new media agreement, which started this year and takes place for seven years, would have been $ 7.7 billion, an increase of 35% Compared to the previous seven years agreement.
TNT, Amazon Prime join the broadcast program for the NASCAR 2025 season
While Fox (including FS1) and NBC (including USA) remain on board, the full season of the Xfinty series will be broadcast on the CW. In addition, a list of 10 mid-season races will be presented on Amazon Prime and TNT.
Expect a flame return at the end of May when Amazon Prime begins its five-week race. Streaming services are increasing their audience, but a large number of households are not subscribed, and whatever the number of these unsubscribe houses include Nascar fans, they will probably be heard.
During the offseason, the president of the NASCAR, Steve Phelps, suggested that 70% of NASCAR fans are Amazon Prime customers, who, according to him, said “in auspicious” for the future of Nascar and streaming customers.
This article originally appeared in Daytona Beach’s Journal: Daytona 500 TV Notes from 2024. Indy 500 compare to Nascar?
