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Motorsports TV Viewership is Way Up & Should We Get Rid of The Roval? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning, everybody.
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  We have a little rain. It's going to move into Saint
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  Louis. Supposed to move right on out
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  tonight. They say it's not going to be a
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  big one. Might be a little soaker, but I
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  think we will still race tomorrow.
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  Oh, no. I'm checking my chairs out.
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  They look wet. Must be humidity.
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  Humidity. My tables, everything's wet.
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  All right, well, we'll just keep on walking.
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  We'll go over to our normal spot.
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  OK, We're going to get right to it today.
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  Wow. Breaking news throughout
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  America, they said. And all the all the stats and
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  demographics are out that racing in America and throughout the
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  world has set some records. Let's go to the Formula One race
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  over there. Monica, ESPN reported record
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  ratings like a million people, which is big here, which is big
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  because Formula One does OK over here, but usually doesn't start
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  hitting the millions. And so Formula One over Monica
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  in the in the million, I think 1,000,000 viewers or something
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  like that. Hey, help me out.
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  Respond right here. We're not, we're not in a war to
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  be right. You can help me with stats.
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  I'm not a statistician. I just read.
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  I did go through one through 12. I can read a little bit.
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  OK, then the Indianapolis 500 had one of his highest ratings
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  in like, what, 20 years? 7 million people watched the
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  Indy 500 and then of course, the NASCAR race right there on
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  prime. This new test, let's be clear,
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  NASCAR and Prime, they're trying something new.
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  Now, this is a little sarcasm right here, and I know you are
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  going to come in with your excuses.
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  I'm ready to go. I'm fully loaded to do battle
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  with you on this. This was a test and everybody
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  knew it was this was prime's way of saying, hey, we're going to
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  we're going to put this NASCAR race on streaming and we're
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  going to see how it goes. We all know we all know that if
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  you put it on fox free, we know that the viewers are going to be
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  bigger. However prime now this is key.
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  You got to listen pre prime or pre back to get back to getting
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  your out of your mouth. By the way, the last two days
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  I've been very soft spoken, very quiet.
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  So today I'm kind of going to hit the median, going to go back
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  to the way I used to be. OK, so I've already explained to
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  you that the prime thing is a test and they have paid NASCAR a
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  lot of money to do this testing. Let's put NASCAR on prime.
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  Let's do the Earnhardt documentary.
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  See, this is all a big plan by Prime, everybody.
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  This isn't just a let's put a NASCAR race on Prime.
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  This is prime seeing if they can pay some money to NASCAR and
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  bring more viewership over to Prime.
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  It's called promotion. So ride in line with more
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  viewers on Formula One for the Monaco race, more viewers.
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  You know, Fox TV said we're going to promote IndyCar and
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  they did. And they also said we didn't
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  promote NASCAR that much for this year.
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  They said that. But prime look at that like over
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  well in the 2,000,000 viewership.
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  And the one thing that we were getting in trouble with is young
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  kids were not watching NASCAR like we need to.
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  We're in trouble. We are in trouble in NASCAR.
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  It's all of us old people. So how do we get young kids to
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  watch NASCAR? Well, the stat came out and I'll
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  post it right here. The viewership for the NASCAR
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  race was seven years younger. Because here's why kids have
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  apps. The children, the kids, they
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  like the apps. The old people, they get pissed.
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  We don't want nothing to do with apps.
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  I'm not spending that $8 more a month.
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  So the kids, they don't care. They don't care like us old
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  retired people, as old retired people, we have a budget.
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  I'm not spending $6 on my lunch. So the reason that the
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  viewership was seven years younger watching NASCAR and
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  Prime is because kids don't care.
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  Now they choose. That's the difference.
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  The kids choose the way they watch.
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  They're they're not going to spend the $200 a month on
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  DIRECTV. They're going to buy what they
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  want to buy when they want to buy it.
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  That's the difference. So it was a big week all around.
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  All the stats, everybody's all in.
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  Now here it is Thursday, so respond right here.
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  The bottom line is this. Why is NASCAR?
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  No, let's back it up. Why is auto racing in America
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  up? I think that's going to be my
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  headlines. Damn Nats, what's going on?
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  Get out of here. I'll bust that ass, Mark Martin,
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  I'll bust that ass. So anyway, why was viewership
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  for auto racing in America during Memorial Day weekend?
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  Now we'll see if it keeps up. Now, like I say, if you're going
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  to bitch about Prime, you better get it in quick because there's
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  only four more races left on Prime.
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  So as soon as you start your bitching about Prime, it's going
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  to be gone. Only four more races left.
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  I think. So I think that's what Dale
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  Junior liked about signing up with Prime.
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  Hell, about a little over a month and it's already over.
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  And then we'll end up going, you know, to some other apps.
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  I respond right here, but there is a confusing schedule.
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  I'll say that there is a confusing schedule with NASCAR
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  this year with all the apps wanting to buy NASCAR.
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  Our Charlie Marlow on Herman Schrader said there's like I got
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  it's like an $8 billion deal over 7 years, like a billion
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  dollars a year. Don't mean to piss some of you
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  old people off, but the demise of NASCAR is greatly exaggerated
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  and that makes me happy. The other subject at hand is
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  just NASCAR in a hole right now, WHOLE right now.
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  There's a lot of talk about the Oval and I think that's what
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  we'll end with. I think the fans are starting to
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  get used to of, oh, we're not going to be exactly the same
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  every year. NASCAR came out and they said
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  we're going to end the championship this year at
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  Phoenix and everybody kind of like that.
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  And I think NASCAR's testing you all testing us, all testing me.
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  And they said next year we're going to end the championship at
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  Miami Homestead. Now all of a sudden it seems
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  like we can change it up every year if we'd like.
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  So now with that race, that was so good.
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  Now, by the way, great ratings for Prime for a new app.
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  I do want to get a sucker punch in for nobody having that app.
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  The Prime app sure was a lot of viewers.
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  So there's a little lesson we learned, right?
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  180, two 100 million viewers are 180 to 200 million people have
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  the prime app. That's how you get over
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  2,000,000 viewers. And remember, this is a big
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  test. OK, let's go back to the the
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  roble. All right, great ratings.
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  Jeff Gluck says, was Charlotte a good race?
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  It was 9010. Those are rare. 90% of you all
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  said Charlotte was an incredible race, 90%.
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  Now the rally cry is this, and this is what we're going to end
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  with. Do we get rid of the Roval?
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  Do we get rid of going around the Charlotte Motor Speedway and
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  then going into the road course and coming back out?
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  A lot of people are saying, hey, remember, Oh, do I hear that?
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  Oh, it's it's gone. I can't hear it anymore.
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  I hate the next Gen. car. It races horrible at all the
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  short tracks except North Wilkesboro, except Charlotte
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  Motor Speedway. I hey, as Andy Petrie would say,
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  he would. He would exaggerate.
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  You know, I told you so. Andy Peacher would say I hold
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  you, I hold you. So here we are.
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  Remember all that arguing we was doing?
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  It's a long distance. I hear.
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  I hear it way out there. Remember that?
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  All that bitching you, you chewed my ever living ass out.
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  I said Talladega was a good race.
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  It went, you know, minimal cautions, photo finish.
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  And you guys hated me. You were brutal to me.
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  Now all of a sudden the car's OK.
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  What a race at North Wilkesboro. What a race at Charlotte.
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  So soon as you say that next Gen. car sucks and it was meant
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  for tracks like Charlotte. Well what happened to
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  Wilkesboro? Oh, is that an anomaly?
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  I don't even know how to say that stupid ass word, but that
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  means A1 off. Nope.
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  Wilkesboro is just a good track. So the bottom line is this, do
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  we get rid of the roble or do we fired up every once in a while?
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  Respond right here because that's the rally cry out there.
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  Everybody. My God, the Coke 600 was so good
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  on Memorial Day weekend. Now, listen, it's on the
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  schedule. But I mean, could they take it
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  off the schedule? I don't know.
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  People have already bought their tickets.
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  There's a lot of people that like that Roble.
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  Do we get rid of the roble? Now respond right here.
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  All right, everybody, 2 subjects today.
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  Why was racing in America viewership up so much over
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  Memorial Day weekend? And do we get rid of the Roval
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  or do we go, do we put it in there every once in a while?
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  You know, it looks to me like changing the schedule every year
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  is here to stay because you all like it.
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  All right, everybody have a great Thursday.