Television and Radio Coverage
All three races in the weekend are carried nationwide by Motor Racing Network, NASCAR's principal radio carrier. For 2010, Speed Channel will air the Ford 200, ESPN2 the Ford 300, and ESPN the Ford 400. Prior to 2003, ESPN aired the Ford 200 as part of its contractwith NASCAR to air the Truck Series. NBC and TNT retained their rights to air the Ford 300 and Ford 400 until 2006, when the ESPN family of networks acquired the rights. ABC aired the Ford 400 from 2007–2009, and ESPN aired the Ford 300 during that same time.
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Famous quotes containing the words television and, television and/or radio:
“His [O.J. Simpson’s] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of the crime scene and the great blackening pools of blood seeping into the sidewalk? Did battered women watch all this on television and realize more vividly than ever before that their lives were cheap and their pain inconsequential?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“We spend all day broadcasting on the radio and TV telling people back home what’s happening here. And we learn what’s happening here by spending all day monitoring the radio and TV broadcasts from back home.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)