Controversial Remote Broadcasts Returning to NASCAR

What’s Happening?

The CW Network, the exclusive provider of the NASCAR Xfinity Series, will debut its remote broadcasts this weekend. The network was reportedly considering this in 2024, and a new report claims it will use this format for “a handful of races.”

• The report from Adam Stern of Sport’s Business Journal does not specify what race or how many races will be remote broadcasts. It does note, however, that pit reporters Dillon Welch and Kim Coon will be on site for the running of the Hard Rock Bet 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
• This means that during these select races, the network’s broadcast booth, consisting of Adam Alexander, Jamie McMurray, and Parker Kligerman, will broadcast off-site at NASCAR’s production facility in Concord, North Carolina. The new state-of-the-art facility will provide broadcasters with almost unlimited camera angles and data, as well as a new “extended reality stage.”
• This is not the first time that NASCAR National Series races will be broadcast remotely. These broadcasts happened consistently throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and since then, select Craftsman Truck Series races have followed suit. However, this will be the first time the CW will do so in the 13 races since taking on NASCAR coverage last September.
• A mid-October report suggested that the CW was considering this option, much to the displeasure of fans and industry members. For some time now, fans and NASCAR industry members have complained that the remote broadcasts lack in quality; this includes figures like Dale Earnhardt Jr, who responded to the October Rumros with a post on X stating, “I hope they do not.”

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