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.
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This morning I was listening to the guys (Nate Ryan & Pete Pistone) on SIRIUS XM 128, and they’ve been doing an awesome job in talking to the media / reporters and such who were let go due to the NASCAR Scene & SceneDaily closing / absorption.
This morning Jeff Gluck was on the radio with the morning boys. (Above image is Jeff having fun with John Daly of The Daly Planet.)
First, Jeff’s voice is a very youthful. I never gave it much thought. When you read someone’s words, your own vision or version of a voice infiltrates your perception. Odd how that is, at least for myself here on NASCAR Bits & Pieces.
Jeff has a great sense of abstract humor about his present situation as he reflected on getting a job with a magazine, thinking how working with a magazine that has a subscriber base is a good job to have. He then made note about Twitter and how it affected the industry.
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