Is NASCAR headed towards PAY PER VIEW??

Question

Personally I would rather pay $20 to watch an entire race without a million commercials.........What do you think??

Answer 1

its not going to paper view they only did that with the prelude to the dream

Answer 2

10 bucks would be a better price nascar should do the samething the irl dose with the split screen

Answer 3

I think listining to it on the radio is better. You just don't get to see what's going on.

Answer 4

Not for me.  I don't want to have to pay for something I am getting for free now.  Beside some commercials are quite entertaining, they also give you that time to grab a snack or visit the little girls room.

Answer 5

I hope not I don't want to pay for something I get now for free and I don't really see them doing that but who knows!

Answer 6

I think they're crazy if they don't do this, because clearly the fans would be willing to pay.  

(They'd have to pay me to watch it, but, hey, different strokes for different folks.)

Answer 7

I would not watch the races if they pay per view on principle alone.  I would simply learn to live without Nascar as there are other great racing series to devote my time to.

Answer 8

I'd rather pay $100 a year to watch pay per view then listen to everyone cry about nonsense.  NASCAR fans are never satisified with the coverage.  

When FOX is on they complain.  When TNT is on they complain.  When ESPN has their turn they complain.  For godsakes TNT  went above and beyond their call of duty a couple weeks ago and people still cried like children.  But then its ok for them to have to get up and go use the restroom, make a phone call, answer the door, calm their kids down. make some food, grab a drink or whatever.

They (the whiners)think there should be some type of magical transponder that only puts a commercial on TV when they feel as though it fits their schedule or they think the networks have ESP and know when an accident is gonna happen and its ok to switch from a a commercial a company paid 10 million dollars to put on tV for 30 seconds.   The funny part is the number of commercials hasn't changed on 8 years and FOX actually is documented as having more.

Answer 9

i hope not

Answer 10

Id listen to MRN Radio.

They have a good broadcast and sometimes more exciting to listen to them  than watch the race.

Answer 11

i dont see it ever going to pay per view maybe some day long in the future to a premimum channel like speed for select races

Answer 12

not now its not NASCAR would not make us fans pay other than online or the directv trackpass

Answer 13

how does anyone figure they are watching for free you was or could have on fox

but i dont know anybody legally getting tnt or espn free

i pay for mine

Answer 14

I believe they are already testing that idea with the DirectTV Hotpass. I certainly hope thay do not go total PPV. I usually work during the race and I do not want to pay to record a race that I am not there to watch while it happens.

I rarely go back & watch an entire race that I missed but I do record them all to have that option. I do that because right now it's free. But if I had to pay to watch it..........I don't know if I would or not..........

I would continue to go to at least 2 races a year...........but I don't know. I just hope it's not headed that way.......

Answer 15

Nascar already is kind of on pay per view if you have Direct Tv. We get hot pass. I know it all season long but it is the same idea.

Answer 16

I would buy a "season ticket" for NASCAR to watch all races without commercials or "local breaks"..  I'd pay up to 500 bucks if DirecTV would carry them all in HD.... think it is a GREAT IDEA!!!

Answer 17

Not if they are smart, I know NASCAR and smart don't belong in the same sentence, they will not. The Prelude to the Dream is not a NASCAR race, so that was a bad example. Back in the late 80's early 90's, the NHRA tried PPV. For 49.95 you could watch the entire event from practice passes to the finals on Sunday. Hardly anybody bought it, they lost money big time.  That set the tone for motor sports on PPV.

Answer 18

No way! If I'm going to pay $20 dollars, I want to be at the race instead of watching it on t.v. You'd end up paying a lot of money by the end of the year if you rented every race.

Answer 19

I think i might have to pay.....i wanted to throw my remote throught the TV less than half way through the race last week with the amount of commercials they were showing. If your going to pay big bucks to show the race do all the fans a favor, show the F***ing race. If you have to bombard it with commercials dont take it on!

Answer 20

T-bone has it right I've timed football vs NASCAR and racing is by far the lesser in terms of commercials. I use a dvr for the first hour and then blast through commercials. There is not a race on the schedule I would pay 20 bucks to watch on TV, except for a special event like the Prelude to the Dream--I'd pay double to watch the Cup cars on dirt!!!!!!

Answer 21

No way.

TV viewership is through the roof this season, because the cost of hotels and gas prices is keeping fans out of the stands. This means NASCAR is in a position to negotiate a much more lucrative TV deal with bigger ad contracts and perhaps more primetime time slots.

With 36 races a year you are talking about shelling out $720 dollars a season assuming the PPV is $20. Most PPV shows run closer to $40. That would be hugely expensive.

Lastly, lets assume we can get the race on PPV and get enough people to watch that it becomes financially viable. The absence of commercials would ruin a lot of sponsorship partnerships. For example during a race you usually see several Lowe's commercials, Home Depot commercials, and Aflac Commercials etc. If sponsors didnt get ad spots to  go with the car sponsorships they wouldnt pay nearly as much to be the sponsor. Without sponsors there is no race to watch.

Answer 22

They tried PPV back in the early 90's and it didn't work that well...  Only a handfull even paid that week.  They did a trial Pocono race...

Answer 23

NASCAR is big, but to go to PPV only would be suicide.  NASCAR is the fastest growing sport in North America because the casual fan tunes in and gets hooked on the excitement.  PPV would exclude the casual fan and cause the fan base to shrink.  This is what happened to boxing 10 - 20 years ago.

If there would be any sporting event that could go PPV, it would be the Super Bowl and even they haven't gone there yet.

Answer 24

If they do, I think they will loose a lot of their fan base. No one wants to pay extra for channels they already get for free. Doing that would cause a rumble just like when they brought the NFL network and Big 10 Network to college and pro football. Where I  lived it cause a lot of ruckus. I would be extremely disappointed in NASCAR!

Answer 25

I hope not.  Way too expensive.  I have DVR..where I can record live TV and fast forward commercials.  This is great.  I wish everyone was set up to have it.  I am so sick of commercials too, unless they are super funny which is rare.

Answer 26

I would not pay to watch a nascar race.

Answer 27

Right now they are under contract with the major networks. I don't think they would be too happy if Nascar started to ado a pay per view and take away their viewers.

Answer 28

Nah...I can stand it...they should limit to 1 min commercials.