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Adam Alexander, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Steve Letarte Make Up Amazon/TNT Broadcast Booths

Amazon Prime Video and TNT will have Adam Alexander, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Steve Letarte in their broadcast booths for NASCAR races in 2025, both companies announced Nov. 18.

Alexander will call the race, while Earnhardt and Letarte flank him as analysts.

Earnhardt was previously announced as joining Amazon and TNT coverage.

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Earnhardt moves over from NBC’s NASCAR coverage, while Alexander comes from FOX. Letarte has also worked with NBC in recent years, with the release indicating he’ll remain with the broadcaster in addition to his work with Amazon and TNT.

Amazon kicks off its race coverage with the Coca-Cola 600 in the NASCAR Cup Series, part of a five-event stretch in May and June. TNT then takes over for five races in June and July.

In addition, Amazon plans coverage of practice and qualifying for the majority of the first half of the Cup season.

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Deb McManus

Going to Amazon for NASCAR broadcasts is stupid. Some people can’t afford premium channels and now are subject to not being able to watch our favorite drivers. I know my senior friends and I have purchased a lot of NASCAR merchandise only to find out now we won’t be able to watch. Think again NASCAR — are you doing what’s best for the fans or for your ratings.

Jeremy

NA$CAR doesn’t care about anyone who doesn’t have money to throw at them. Recall how they ditched their long time, loyal fans to try and woo a wealthier class of trend-chasing Hollywood fans? They don’t seem to have much long term vision, everything seems to be for short term gain and/or immediate $$$ in their pocket.

DoninAjax

And what will be the price to hear the three shills?

Kevin in SoCal

Its about $16 a month, and you can cancel after the races. So $32 for two months.

WJW Motorsports

And don’t forget you get to help the environment out as well with your purchase, with a never ending stream of beat-up cars showing up 24/7 delivering and then removing the stacks of cardboard boxes on your front steps.

sb

Actually, I have just Amazon video for $9 a month.

Echo

Whoever offers the france family the most money wins- period. Nascar doesn’t care, they already cashed the check. They don’t need fans, they have stupid networks with stupid sponsors. Look at FedEx, there was absolutely no reason to blow 19 years of money on Nascar because they only had to be better than the post office.

WJW Motorsports

Thing about broadcasting sports is that it kind of came about because demand to attend the event was so high as to make it economically feasible to marginalize the paid ticket holder for the guy on the couch. When you see empty venues, you know for certain a sport is not economically viable anymore, and is simply pushing things around to make it seem so. Time will come soon when the 500 is the only race that isn’t pay per view in some capacity.

Bob

2 out of 3 isn’t bad, but certainly not great. NASCAR needs to add to the negotiations with TV: NO CORPORATE STOOGES in the booth. These fools obviously get paid by the word and have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. Leigh Diffey was pulled away from figure skating and gymnastics broadcasts to cover racing because he has an accent, and he sucks.

Jeremy

I get how Diffey isn’t viewed as a great fit in NA$CAR, but he does have extensive experience broadcasting in various forms of motorsports including AMA Supercross, MotoGP, IMSA, Cart, Indycar, and F1. He spent well over 10 years in motorsports (he worked for the Speed Channel 2003-2012) before covering the Olympics in 2014.

Last edited 2 months ago by Jeremy