‘They are in a massive hurry to get off the air,’ Dale Earnhardt Jr calls out NASCAR broadcasters for their limited coverage of post-race events

‘They are in a massive hurry to get off the air,’ Dale Earnhardt Jr calls out NASCAR broadcasters for their limited coverage of post-race events

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Dale Earnhardt Jr is one of the most acknowledged and appreciated NASCAR pundits and drivers in the premium stock racing community. This is mainly due to the charisma and uniqueness of the two times Daytona 500 winner brings to the coverage.

Dale Earnhardt Jr always has been among the few broadcasters who try to reflect NASCAR fans’ opinions in the coverage of racing events within their constraint. Now in a recent episode of his podcast Dirty Mo Media Door Bumper Clear, he spoke about the lack of proper post-race coverage there is in streaming services.

Find out what Dale Earnhardt Jr. said

Dale Earnhardt Jr
Dale Earnhardt Jr

Dale Earnhardt Jr acknowledged that the big broadcasters are always in a hurry to move on from one program to another as they are more concerned about streaming events one after another. He went on to suggest that he as the NASCAR fans get frustrated about the fact that they wind up the stream as fast as they do with a limited number of postrace interviews with rivers.

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“When it’s on the big network like Fox or NBC, they are in a massive hurry to get off the air and get the next programming back on. There’s a whole other world out there ready to put their show on. NASCAR is not important to them. They’re screaming, when’s this coming off the air. Everybody on the TV truck is scrambling, trying to close the show,” Dale Earnhardt Jr said.

“We got to find a way to at least give ourselves that 15-minute to half-hour to do all of this the proper way. Get all the guys interviewed. That drives me nuts when I get off the air and look at my phone and all I see is people complaining because we didn’t interview second, third, fourth, or fifth. I’m so frustrated for the fan at home because that’s what he’s thinking right now,” Dale Earnhardt Jr added.

Dale Earnhardt Jr
Dale Earnhardt Jr

Dale Earnhardt Jr says this kind of streaming practice is unacceptable and there should be a reprogrammed structure in place that will ensure there are plenty of interviews, that deserves to be done and get done within the schedule.

“That’s unacceptable. Figuring out how to get all that changed to be able to build in that time so that we could have plenty of interviews and get all of this stuff done that needs to be done, that deserves to be done at the end of the race and reprogram the drivers to get them to where we want them to go so, they’re not dragging their feet, waving their flag or doing whatever it is that they want to do,” Dale Earnhardt Jr. said.

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