North American Sportscar Media Thread

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Originally Posted by WyldStallion

NBCSN IMSA coverage is almost irrelevant. IMSA Radio crew though has the infrastructure in place to allow IMSA to go the paid subscription streaming route themselves. IMSA Radio (Radio show Limited) already covers all the races, support series, and weathertech series practice and qualfying sessions. Also they do preview, review, and interview segments. Just do a lot of that with the camera now. Especially the practice sessions. Could also give us the cool live timing and scoring stuff now too. Also with a subscription service you should have the ability to watch race replays with no commentary at all. John, jeremy and Shea are great for first and second viewing. But if you had the ability to remove commentary then the races could re-watched 3rd, 4th, etc times. MLB.TV by the way has that option to watch games with now commentary on their web site based service.

Watching the same race for the 4th time is pretty hardcore but that's not why the NBC deal exists. Nothing except maybe well promoted free streaming on Youtube can reach casual viewers the way tv still can.

Also rolling your own streaming service is not easy when you're a small series, not a media/tech company yourself and when you outsource it based on cheapest offers. The "WEC App" is in year 9 or something and it is still technically pathetic. Even F1 has had major problems with F1TV, but at least it is improving. The current IMSATV is passable because it is free. MLB.tv and others from the big leagues are on a different level.

If the tv air time goes away and IMSA's new home is on NBC Peacock service then the contract is pretty much useless. Hopefully they can then initiate some sort of clause to end it prematurely or at least change it (e.g. no domestic exclusivity). And then figure out an alternative.

I can already hear it in my head... Motortrend.