NBC Replaces TNT, ESPN In Broadcasting NASCAR

From ESPN: ESPN's eight-year run of broadcasting NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series races will end after the 2014 season.
NASCAR announced on Tuesday that NBC has signed a 10-year deal to televise the final 20 Cup races and final 19 Nationwide events, beginning in 2015. Fox Sports announced last year it signed an eight-year extension to broadcast the Daytona 500 and 12 other Cup races, the Truck Series and practices and qualifying.
Turner Broadcasting, which televised six Cup races in the summer, also is out after 2014. The Cup races not picked up by NBC and the first half of the Nationwide schedule is expected to be bid on by Fox....
NBC will televise seven Cup races on NBC, with some leading into its "Sunday Night Football'' coverage. The other 13 will be on the NBC Sports Network.
Four Nationwide races will be on NBC, with 15 on NBCSN. The network also retains the rights to the NASCAR K&N Series, Whelen Modified Tour events, NASCAR Toyota (Mexico) Series events, the NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremony and season-ending banquets.
According to the Sports Business Journal, which first reported the story on Tuesday morning, NBC will pay as much as 50 percent more than ESPN was paying.
ESPN had exclusive negotiating rights through July 14. When it did not sign an extension, NASCAR was free to negotiate with NBC, which televised the sport from 2001 to 2006.  http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/cup/story/_/id/9503169/nbc-signs-10-year-deal-nascar-replaces-espnI'm glad TNT is out as they did a horrendous job broadcasting NASCAR but ESPN did a good job.  but if you don't have cable, you were out.  Of course, the same is true for NBC's cable station.
Hopefully, this will be good for NASCAR.