or


[06/06/11 - 06:12 AM]
TNT Returns to the Track with Extensive Multiplatform Coverage of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Beginning on June 12 at Pocono Raceway
Additional NASCAR coverage is set for June 19, June 26, July 2, July 9 and July 17.
[via press release from TNT]

TNT Returns to the Track with Extensive Multiplatform Coverage of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Beginning on June 12 at Pocono Raceway

TNT RaceBuddy on NASCAR.COM adds additional cameras and two mosaic options

TNT to debut Inside Trax, Returns with popular Pride of NASCAR series and Wide Open Coverage

TNT and NASCAR.COM are set to wave the green flag on the network's 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series coverage debuting on Sunday, June 12 at Pocono Raceway with enhanced features and more interactivity on television and online to provide fans with the most comprehensive multi-platform NASCAR experience possible. This year, TNT RaceBuddy on NASCAR.COM will return with twice as many camera views as last year including two mosaics for fans to choose from. Also, the network will debut Inside Trax, offering fans exclusive audio and video from select crew chiefs and their teams each race. Wide Open Coverage returns for TNT's marquee primetime race in Daytona on Saturday, July 2 and will feature the first-ever NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway in primetime on Saturday, July 9.

TNT RaceBuddy on NASCAR.COM returns to provide live companion coverage online with an expanded application. This season, fans can choose from a total of ten camera views, twice as many as last year,including two Mosaics. Eight individual camera angles includefour In-Car Driver Cams, up from one cam last year, two Battle Cams highlighting head-to-head competition between drivers, a Backstretch Cam and a Pit Road Cam. The two Mosaic Views allowfans to view four streams at once. Returning features to the site include the DVR Function, an Enhanced LIVE Leaderboard and RaceView's position tracker: Fans can also connect throughout the race on Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo! Messenger and MySpace in a seamlessly integrated social media experience

Turner Sports' coverage of NASCAR will debut innovative new linear and digital features that will bring fans all the exciting action at the track, including:

Inside Trax: TNT will mic-up select crew chiefs and their teams throughout the Summer Series providing fans with inside access to the sounds and strategy of NASCAR.

Live online video chats on NASCAR.COM: For the first time this year, TNT NASCAR analyst Kyle Petty and Rutledge Wood's ongoinglive video chat series "30 Minutes You Will Never Get Back" will invite TNT announcers to answer questions from the fans. Each Friday, fans can submit questions via Twitter or Facebook to have their questions answered on the show. TNT NASCAR analyst Larry McReynolds will join Petty and Wood on June 10 in Pocono.

TNT returns its marquee announce crew with analysts Petty and Wally Dallenbach joining play-by-play announcer Adam Alexander in the booth for each race. Veteran reporters Ralph Sheheen, Marty Snider and Matt Yocum will be joined by Chris Neville, a ten-year veteran motorsports reporter, on pit road. In addition, Lindsay Czarniak will once again host the network's 60-minute pre-race show, Countdown to Green delivered by Pizza Hut, with Petty and McReynolds joining her on the TNT rig along with special guests each week.

"In our 28th consecutive year of televising NASCAR's premier series, we are looking forward to enhancing the viewers' experience through our unrivaled portfolio of linear and digital assets," said Jeff Behnke, Turner Sports executive producer. "With our six races featuring the increased audio presence of Inside Trax and the continued growth of RaceBuddy, we are committed to bringing NASCAR fans in-depth coverage of the sport they love."

The green flag will drop on TNT's coverage beginning June 12th in Pocono, followed by six consecutive weeks of exclusive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series coverage with races in Michigan (June 19), Sonoma (June 26) and Loudon (July 27), and primetime Saturday night races in Daytona (July 2) and the first-ever NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kentucky(July 9). Also featured throughout the six race series:

Pride of NASCAR: The popularseries celebrating NASCAR's rich history will return for its 10th year with in-depth profiles of six racing legends. This year's series launches in Pocono with a feature on the late legendary crew chief Harry Hyde and also feature A.J. Foyt, Barney Hall and Rex White.

TNT Off-Track Robotic Car (TORC) presented by Toyota:McReynoldsbreaks down pit crew car strategies and provides a unique look inside the engine of a custom-built race car.

NASCAR.COM Post-Race Show: Hosted by Czarniak and featuring all of TNT's announcers, the exclusive online post-race show will wrap up all the day's action with highlights and special interviews.

TNT Million Dollar Fan Challenge:A weeklyevent on NASCAR.COM that gives fans the opportunity to win up to $1 million each week of TNT's coverage by selecting in precise order the drivers they think will be the top-10 finishers in each race, with the opportunity to adjust their line-up through 25% of the race.

NASCAR.COM Ultimate Tailgating Vehicle: The UTV, sponsored by Coors Light and featured on NASCAR.COM, will be on-site and shown on TNT telecasts during the Summer Series package.

TNT's marquee primetime race in Daytona with the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona powered by Coca-Cola will feature the return of Wide Open Coverage in which the network provides continuous race coverage free of national commercial breaks and featuresmore unobstructed race action than that of a standard telecast by using a letterbox widescreen format. In place of the national ads, the telecast features a variety of animated sponsor messages, unique branded content and distinct on-screen graphic elements. Over the past four years, TNT's Wide Open coverage has only missed 9 total laps of green flag racing including zero laps missed over the past two years. 20

11 NASCAR on TNT Summer Series:

ALL TIMES EASTERN (ET)

SUNDAY, JUNE 12

Noon - 1 p.m. Countdown to Green delivered by Pizza Hut

1 - 5:30 p.m. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Racing from Pocono (Pocono Raceway)

SUNDAY, JUNE 19

Noon - 1 p.m. Countdown to Green delivered by Pizza Hut

1 - 4:30 p.m. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Racing from Michigan (Michigan International Speedway)

SUNDAY, JUNE 26

2 - 3 p.m. Countdown to Green delivered by Pizza Hut

3 - 6:30 p.m. Toyota / SaveMart 350 (Infineon Raceway)

SATURDAY, JULY 2

6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Countdown to Green delivered by Pizza Hut

7:30 - 11 p.m. Coke Zero 400 at Daytona powered by Coca-Cola (Daytona International Speedway)

SATURDAY, JULY 9

6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Countdown to Green delivered by Pizza Hut

7:30 - 11 p.m. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Racing from Kentucky presented by KFC (Kentucky Speedway)

SUNDAY, JULY 17

Noon - 1 p.m. Countdown to Green delivered by Pizza Hut

1 - 4:30 p.m. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Racing from New Hampshire (New Hampshire Motor Speedway)

Turner Sports, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., is an industry leader in televised and online sports programming, airing championship level sporting events on TBS, TNT and truTV, and managing some of the most popular sports sites on the Internet. Turner Sports' television line-up includes the NBA, Major League Baseball, the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship, NASCAR and professional golf. The company's digital portfolio includes SI.com, NASCAR.COM, NCAA.com, PGATOUR.COM, GOLF.com and PGA.com, as well as an accompanying collection of mobile websites and connected device apps. Turner Sports and the NBA also jointly manage NBA Digital, which includes NBA TV, NBA.com, NBA LEAGUE PASS, NBA Mobile, the NBA Game Time App, NBADLEAGUE.com and WNBA.com.

TNT, one of cable's top-rated networks, is television's destination for drama. Seen in 100.5 million households, the network is home to such original series as The Closer, starring Emmy� winner Kyra Sedgwick; Rizzoli & Isles, starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander; the Peabody Award-winning Men of a Certain Age, with Ray Romano, Scott Bakula and Andre Braugher; Leverage, starring Timothy Hutton; Hawthorne, with Jada Pinkett Smith; Memphis Beat, with Jason Lee; and Southland, from Emmy-winning producer John Wells (ER); as well as the upcoming Falling Skies, starring Noah Wyle, and Franklin & Bash, with Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer. TNT also presents such powerful dramas as Bones, Supernatural, Las Vegas, Law & Order, CSI: NY, Cold Case and, starting in 2011, The Mentalist; broadcast premiere movies; compelling primetime specials, such as the Screen Actors Guild Awards�; and championship sports coverage, including NASCAR, the NBA and the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship. TNT is available in high-definition.





  [june 2011]  
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
   


· SHOWATCH
(series past and present)
· DEVWATCH
(series in development)
· MOVIEWATCH
(tv movies and mini-series)




[04/20/18 - 09:15 PM]
"Grey's" Goes for 15 - ABC Renews Its Longest-Running Primetime Drama for a Historic 15th Season
"'Grey's Anatomy' has a special place in my heart and millions of viewers feel the same way," said Channing Dungey.
[04/20/18 - 01:08 PM]
Noah Emmerich Has Been Cast as "Dan Peleg" in "The Spy"
"The Spy" is a Netflix limited series exploring Eli Cohen's (Sacha Baron Cohen) role as a spy for Israel in Syria in the early 1960s.
[04/20/18 - 01:04 PM]
Sarah Jeffery Returns as Audrey in "Descendants 3"
Directed by Emmy(R) and DGA Award-winning Kenny Ortega, "Descendants 3," a Disney Channel Original Movie, begins production next month for a 2019 premiere.

[04/20/18 - 11:01 AM]
Disney Junior's "Muppet Babies" Grows to New Series Highs
Disney Channel further spins the numbers for Friday, April 13.
[04/20/18 - 10:58 AM]
"Detroiters" Returns for Season Two with Back-to-Back Episodes on Thursday, June 21 at 10:00 P.M. ET/PT
The Comedy Central series stars real-life best friends and Detroit natives Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson as small-time ad men in the Motor City.
[04/20/18 - 09:22 AM]
MTV and Gunpowder & Sky Announce New Series "Too Stupid to Die" Premiering June 2018
"'Too Stupid to Die' is the right kind of show and characters who fit our coming of age strategy that's driving MTV's growth," said Chris McCarthy.
[04/20/18 - 09:05 AM]
Mobile Game "Broad City: High Score" Available for Download Today
Fans can navigate their way through New York, playing a series of rapid-fire, skill-challenging mini-games inspired by hilarious moments from the show.
[04/20/18 - 08:33 AM]
Thursday's Broadcast Ratings: CBS Holds Off Surge from ABC, "Scandal" Finale
The Eye wins the night among total viewers and adults 18-49.
[04/20/18 - 08:07 AM]
"The Great American Read," A New Multi-Platform PBS Series, Reveals List of America's 100 Favorite Novels
The series, hosted by television personality and journalist Meredith Vieira, launches with a two-hour episode on Tuesday, May 22 at 8:00/7:00c.
[04/20/18 - 08:06 AM]
"Friday Night Lights" Now Streaming on Hulu
Fans can now head to Hulu to watch every episode of the acclaimed series, and relive their favorite moments from Coach Taylor & Tami, as well as all of the Dillon High School football team.
[04/20/18 - 08:02 AM]
Season Three of "David Tutera's Celebrations" Returns with All New Episodes Friday, April 27 at 10PM ET/PT on WE tv
With new hires to watch over, and new celebrity clients including Zendaya, Heidi and Spencer Pratt, and Buddy Valastro, the event planner extraordinaire has his hands full.
[04/20/18 - 07:27 AM]
Video: Light Up This 4/20 with Season 2 of IFC's "Brockmire"
The show's season premiere, "The Getaway Game," is now available to watch on various platforms in advance of its linear debut.
[04/20/18 - 07:19 AM]
Video: Netflix Unveils Trailer for "Safe," As Michael C. Hall Returns to Television in Harlan Coben's Crime Thriller
After his teenage daughter goes missing, widowed surgeon Tom Delaney (Michael C. Hall) begins unearthing dark secrets about the people closest to him.

[04/20/18 - 06:00 AM]
ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" to Host Special "Avengers: Infinity War" Week, April 23 - April 27
The guest lineup includes the film's stars: Robert Downey Jr., Tom Holland, Zoe Saldana, Pom Klementieff, Paul Bettany, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hiddleston, Dave Bautista, Mark Ruffalo, Danai Gurira, Chris Hemsworth, Josh Brolin, Sebastian Stan, Chadwick Boseman, Karen Gillan, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Elizabeth Olsen and Winston Duke.
[04/19/18 - 06:48 PM]
FOX Sports Ushers in 25th Season of NFL Coverage with Its Strongest Broadcast Schedule Ever
FOX's strong 2018 regular season schedule features 35 NFC divisional matchups - 10 from the NFC South, nine each from the NFC North and NFC West, and seven from the NFC East.