inside nascar

With 4 floors of production studios ready to go, the NASCAR Media Group (NMG) has the resources to create all kinds of media magic.  They have access to all the digital archives of NASCAR and if they need to feel inspired, they can sidle over to another part of their own building, the part that houses the NASCAR Hall of Fame!

The group is so equipped, that they could start their own network, but don’t worry.  They can’t do that.  At least not until some of their media contracts are up in 2014.

Right now, The Atlantic Coast Conference, University of South Carolina and Charlotte-based Raycom Sports are among the first clients that are starting to use the services of the studio, bringing in cash to the studio.

South Carolina struck a deal with the NMG to archive old footage of their sports history.  They’ve brought a whole lotta of Betamax and VHS tapes that need archiving to digital format.  Dah…  that’s gotta be a lot of archiving!  Betamax?  I haven’t seen or heard that word in quite a while!

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The other day I heard about the new NASCAR show coming to cable called Inside NASCAR on Showtime.

It will consist of 38 hour-long episodes reporting on the events and such during each week of NASCAR’s racing season.

The show premieres on February 10th and joins Showtime’s line up of sporting programs, Inside the NFL , boxing and other shows.

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The prevalent take from fans of NASCAR is that this is not a necessary program that we need.  Yet one more NASCAR program to jam into the cable box?

And the fact that it’s on Showtime pretty much rules out a lot of fans that just don’t want movie channels in their subscription service.

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