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Daytona 500 TV scores up from final 12 months after quick begin. What number of stayed after rain delay?
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Daytona 500 TV scores up from final 12 months after quick begin. What number of stayed after rain delay?

Motorsports February 19, 2025
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The beginning of the Daytona 500 noticed an enormous scores enhance, 12 months over 12 months, however a didn’t return after the lengthy rain delay.

In accordance with Fox Sports activities, averaged 6.761 million viewers on the community. Viewership peaked at the beginning, with almost 8 million watching between 2-2:15 p.m., a timeframe that included President Trump’s tempo laps in entrance of the sphere, in addition to the race’s first 11 laps of green-flag racing earlier than a rain delay lasting almost 4 hours.

General, the viewing common is 13% forward of final 12 months, when a median of almost 6 million watched on Monday after a complete As normal, the Daytona 500 was essentially the most watched sporting occasion of the weekend.

For some context, final 12 months’s Indy 500 drew a median of 5.3 million viewers.

NASCAR THRU THE GEARS

For NASCAR, numbers are down however the paydays preserve going up

NASCAR stays properly off its peak years, from 2001-2015, when most years averaged between 15-19 million.

A splintered media market, which now contains of us watching on their telephones or laptops, is usually assigned a number of the blame for the decline.

Others additionally cite the exodus of that period’s fan favorites — comparable to Rusty Wallace, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Jimmie Johnson and NASCAR’s hottest racer of this century, Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Extra perspective: Of the 40 most watched auto races within the U.S. final 12 months, 38 have been NASCAR races, with the opposite two being the Indy 500 (it was No. 2) and the System One race from Miami (No. 16). Of the 38 NASCAR occasions, the one non-Cup Collection race was the Xfinity Collection race from Chicago (No. 39).

Scores for many sports-entertainment enterprises — excluding the NFL and faculty soccer — are properly off their peaks from earlier instances, however sports activities stays a cash maker for leagues and the networks searching for live-event protection and the advert income it delivers.

As an illustration, NASCAR’s numbers aren’t the place they as soon as have been, however the brand new media-rights deal, which kicked on this 12 months and runs for seven years, was reportedly price $7.7 billion, a 35% enhance over the earlier seven-year deal.

TNT, Amazon Prime be part of broadcast lineup for 2025 NASCAR season

Whereas Fox (together with FS1) and NBC (together with USA) stay on board, the total Xfinty Collection season can be broadcast on The CW. Additionally, A slate of 10 midseason races can be proven on Amazon Prime and TNT.

Anticipate some blowback in late Might when Amazon Prime begins its five-week run. Streaming providers are rising their viewership, however giant numbers of households don’t subscribe, and no matter variety of these unsubscribing houses embody NASCAR followers, they’ll seemingly be heard from.

Through the offseason, NASCAR President Steve Phelps advised 70% of NASCAR followers are Amazon Prime clients, which he stated “bodes properly” for the way forward for NASCAR and streaming purchasers.

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