Oct 14, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min · 11 segments
It's safe to say not many people expected Kyle Larson to go on a generational run in the Chase after his inconsistent regular season. But motorsports reporter Jeff Gluck is here to figure out the…
Jeff GluckHost
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So I watched both these appearances and I wanted to pass along what I thought was sort of the interesting nuggets, I guess.
First of all, they keep referring to this now and Steve O'Donnell called this in the Wall Street Journal as well.
And for one thing that I thought was interesting, O'Donnell talked about meeting David Ellison during NASCAR San Diego weekend.
And David Ellison, if you haven't heard, is the head of the new merged company called Skydance.
So David Ellison now controls CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount, and And, um, O'Donnell had apparently asked Ellison, you know, if you were us looking at media rights, how would you see it? And David Ellison told him about what he views as a barbell approach where you have sort of this balanced thing between streaming cable and network, you know, as a barbell that you're lifting, I guess.
So, um, and that's also important because Skydance now has part of NASCAR's rights because TNT is now under Skydance and, And so O'Donnell actually told front office sports, he says, you know, offhand, he says, oh, I'm actually meeting with David Burson today, which is Wednesday in New York City.
because there's a possibility now that these companies, the TNT part of side of it and CBS side of it, they're both under the same umbrella.
There's a possibility, we don't know, but could NASCAR end up on CBS network for some of the TNT races in the future? So that's something to watch.
He was asked on both Squawk Box and the front office sports thing about how he views F1.
And O'Donnell sort of both brushed it off and, you know, acknowledges things that he likes from it.
Like he said, Oh, you know, NASCAR has got 65% of the American TV viewing audience and O'Reilly outdraws F1 in this country.
So, um, know he was saying motorsports wise f1's not really a threat to us but he's also he also said that there was things he could take from f1 like he really liked the building personalities outside of the drivers like the the team principal rivalries and he specifically mentioned the cool down room um where you get to hear the drivers talking uh after the race right he really likes that so could we see that in nascar somehow i don't know um O'Donnell also said that less technologically advanced racing was a plus compared to F1 because, quote, there's a yearning with AI and everything to kind of go back a little bit.
So I watched both these appearances and I wanted to pass along what I thought was sort of the interesting nuggets, I guess.
First of all, they keep referring to this now and Steve O'Donnell called this in the Wall Street Journal as well.
And for one thing that I thought was interesting, O'Donnell talked about meeting David Ellison during NASCAR San Diego weekend.
And David Ellison, if you haven't heard, is the head of the new merged company called Skydance.
So David Ellison now controls CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount, and And, um, O'Donnell had apparently asked Ellison, you know, if you were us looking at media rights, how would you see it? And David Ellison told him about what he views as a barbell approach where you have sort of this balanced thing between streaming cable and network, you know, as a barbell that you're lifting, I guess.
So, um, and that's also important because Skydance now has part of NASCAR's rights because TNT is now under Skydance and, And so O'Donnell actually told front office sports, he says, you know, offhand, he says, oh, I'm actually meeting with David Burson today, which is Wednesday in New York City.
because there's a possibility now that these companies, the TNT part of side of it and CBS side of it, they're both under the same umbrella.
There's a possibility, we don't know, but could NASCAR end up on CBS network for some of the TNT races in the future? So that's something to watch.
He was asked on both Squawk Box and the front office sports thing about how he views F1.
And O'Donnell sort of both brushed it off and, you know, acknowledges things that he likes from it.
Like he said, Oh, you know, NASCAR has got 65% of the American TV viewing audience and O'Reilly outdraws F1 in this country.
So, um, know he was saying motorsports wise f1's not really a threat to us but he's also he also said that there was things he could take from f1 like he really liked the building personalities outside of the drivers like the the team principal rivalries and he specifically mentioned the cool down room um where you get to hear the drivers talking uh after the race right he really likes that so could we see that in nascar somehow i don't know um O'Donnell also said that less technologically advanced racing was a plus compared to F1 because, quote, there's a yearning with AI and everything to kind of go back a little bit.
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