In another cost cutting measure, it’s being reported that NASCAR Scene will be merging into the monthly NASCAR Illustrated magazine. Then again, despite this “announcement,” we already caught wind of this possibility.
This ends the weekly printing of Scene, since its inception back in 1977. It’s a sad day indeed for one of the media staples of the sport.
We all knew something was afoot as a number of reporters found themselves without employ a little over a week ago.
I get it. Times are tough and the financial dominoes are still falling, and falling hard.
What I don’t get or like is how this was handled. Rather than Street & Smith’s Sports Group, who is handling this, announce to EVERYONE before it happened what was going to happen, they slice and dice and let us conjecture for quite some time before making any kind of a public announcement.
It makes me feel like my perception of the situation does not seem to matter to the controlling organization.
Slam, bam, thank you ma’am. A week later, oh, by the way…
Scenedaily.com will continue to cover NASCAR and those who subscribed to Scene will start receiving NASCAR Illustrated next month.
(Well I was wondering if Scenedaily.com was going to become a weekly site!?)
