DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Broadcast times for the 2009 season have been announced, beginning with FOX’s broadcast of the Budweiser Shootout on Feb. 7 at Daytona International Speedway.
Sprint Cup Series points races will be seen on either FOX, TNT, ESPN or ABC. In addition, two non-points events — the Gatorade Duel at Daytona and the Sprint All-Star Race — will be broadcast by SPEED.
FOX will broadcast the first 13 Sprint Cup points races, beginning with the Daytona 500 on Feb. 15 and ending at Dover International Speedway on May 31.
TNT will broadcast the next six events, beginning with the Pocono 500 on June 7 at Pocono Raceway and ending with LifeLock.com 400 on July 11 at Chicago.
ESPN and ABC will broadcast the final 17 Cup Series events. ESPN will broadcast six, beginning with the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard on July 26 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and ending with the Sept. 6 event at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
ABC completes the season with 11 broadcasts, beginning with race No. 26, the cutoff event for the Chase for the Sprint Cup — at Richmond International Raceway on Sept. 12. ABC also will air the entire 10-race Chase. The season ends with the Ford 400 on Nov. 22 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
The Nationwide Series season will be broadcast on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2. ABC will broadcast four events, ESPN will broadcast five and ESPN2 will broadcast 26. ESPN2 opens the season with the Camping World 300 on Feb. 14 at Daytona. New to the 2009 schedule is a race at Iowa Speedway, held on Aug. 1 on ESPN.
ESPN2 also will broadcast the season-finale Ford 300 on Nov. 21 at Homestead.
• The Camping World Truck Series returns to SPEED for a seventh consecutive season, beginning with the season-opening NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona on Feb. 13. SPEED will broadcast 23 of the 25 races.
For the third consecutive season, FOX will broadcast two Truck Series events. The first will be at Auto Club Speedway on Feb. 21. The race is part of a NASCAR double header involving the Nationwide and Truck series (the Nationwide race will be televised on ESPN2).
FOX also will broadcast the Truck Series’ Kroger 250 at Martinsville Speedway on March 28.
