Saturday night's Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway is scheduled to be shown on ABC but WSOC-TV in Charlotte will instead air a preseason Washington Redskins NFL game.
The Bristol race will instead air on TV-64 and will be
viewable to cable subscribers as follows: Time Warner channel
1230, Charter channel 703, Compas channel 16 and Comporium channel 110.
Fans in
Charlotte area who are satellite TV subscribers will be able to watch the race
on ESPN alternate channels (DirecTV – channel 209-1; DISH – channel
145).
WSOC-TV
will join the race in progress after football game ends and the telecast will air
simultaneously on both. ABC affiliates
are independently operated and can make their own programming decisions.
In Nashville, Bristol race has been bumped to a non-HD weather station because of WKRN's contract to air Tennessee Titans pre-season games. Ugh.
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Damn shame that a meaningless pre-season game is trumping a meaningful race.
ReplyDeleteI hate ESPN and FOX Sports !!! Why does the stick and ball games, football, basketball, socker, golf, bad-mitten, tiddly-winks and every thing else take precidense over Racing !!! I wish we had TNN back, at least all they had on was racing.
ReplyDeleteUmm... ESPN and Fox Sports didn't bump this race in Charlotte dude. ABC did. FOX Sports didn't even contract to air this race. I'm watching it on ESPN2HD right now. Why the hostility towards them?
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