The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network (known typically as the IMS Radio Network), is an in-house radio syndication arrangement which broadcasts the Indianapolis 500, IndyCar, and the Brickyard 400 to radio stations covering most of North America.
The network claims to be one of the largest in the world, with over 400 affiliates, as well as AFN, the LeSEA broadcasting network, and World Harvest Radio.
IndyCar races are carried on XM channel 145 and on Sirius through the "Best of XM" package. The Brickyard 400 broadcast is carried on Sirius NASCAR Radio, and simulcast on XM channel 128 through the "Best of Sirius" package.
The longtime flagship of the network is station 1070-WFNI (formerly WIBC) in Indianapolis.
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“What shall we do with country quiet now?
A motor drones insanely in the blue
Like a bad bird in a dream.”
—Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)
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—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
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—Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)
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—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)