With NASCAR’s summer creak coming to an end, it’s time to look ahead to 2025.
Yes, we still have 14 Cup races remaining in 2024. Those race weekends will be the final ones with the current TV deal, signed in 2013.
Next year a lot of things are going to change.
Where you see races will change. How you watch them will change, and who will be on those broadcasts will change. We’ll start with the NASCAR Cup Series.
As you know, the NASCAR Cup Series will be split between four different media entities starting next year. They are FOX Sports, Amazon Prime Video, Warner Bros. Discovery (via TNT and Max) and NBC Sports.
Of the four, FOX Sports will see the least change for 2025. The existing booth of Mike Joy, Clint Bowyer and Kevin Harvick will be back next seasons. As of this writing, it is the only confirmed NASCAR broadcast booth for next season.
Outside of the booth, things are a little less certain. In addition to NASCAR, FOX Sports has acquired rights to IndyCar starting next year. There is a non-zero chance that one or more people currently on FOX NASCAR broadcasts could end up on the IndyCar side.
For instance, Jamie Little, prior to working on NASCAR broadcasts, was a pit reporter with ESPN for their IndyCar coverage.
For Amazon Prime Video and Warner Bros. Discovery, the only person that we know for sure that will be on those broadcasts is Dale Earnhardt Jr. He has signed a multi-year deal that will see him serve as a booth analyst for Cup races on both Amazon Prime Video and TNT/Max, which amounts to 10 races a year.
Amazon Prime Video will also have rights to practice and qualifying sessions starting after Daytona. Since we don’t currently have a schedule for 2025, it is unclear where this will be.
At NBC Sports, nothing has been announced as of yet in regards to who they will have in the broadcast booth. Leigh Diffey is scheduled to take over the play-by-play role for Cup races later this month and will be on the call for the remainder of the season.
More than likely, Diffey will keep the role for 2025 if he chooses to stay. His current booth mates, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte, have undetermined plans for 2025. There have been rumors that Letarte would leave and join Earnhardt Jr. at either Amazon, Warner Bros. Discovery, or both, but nothing is concrete.
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