NASCAR experienced problems as racing events went to a different location with each place establishing their own contract that leads to the races not broadcast by the same television station as the previous races. FOX and NBC contracted with NASCAR to televising their races at a cost of $2.4 billion, then four years, adding broadcast to 167 countries increasing their …show more content…
It is hard to imagine things being much worse (Smith, 2015).
NASCAR attract marketers due to their brand loyalty of their fans and they are likely to purchase some of the products that the sponsors make. The federal government put a ban on cigarette company promoting through TV and radio, so cigarette manufacturers turn to NASCAR with their $400 million budget creating the Winston Cup and was profitable for drivers, their sponsors, and the teams (Hall, n.d.).
The fan base that Jeff Gordon has was profitable for DuPoint when they sponsor his racing team, fans of Gordon started buying DuPoint product.companies saw the benefits of sponsoring the racing events. Television stations started to make bids to broadcast races. While advertising through NASCAR gives the business immediate product promotion leading to increasing revenues while advertising through NASCAR is lucrative the cost to sponsor car events is becoming expensive (Hall,