Dale Earnhardt Jr. Joins Warner, Amazon for NASCAR After NBC Exit
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Dale Earnhardt Jr. is changing vehicles. The legendary racer will leave NBC Sports’ NASCAR team, where he has held forth as a color commentator since 2018, in favor of lending his expertise to both Warner Bros.
Discovery and Amazon. The two companies struck new pacts with the racing league last year in agreements that spread NASCAR properties around the media landscape.
NASCAR remains with both its current rightsholders, NBC and Fox. At Warner, Earnhardt will serve as an on-air commentator for TNT Sports’ exclusive coverage of five NASCAR Cup Series races each Summer, airing in consecutive weeks on TNT and the B/R Sports Add-On on Max.
He will also contribute to a new Bleacher Report series distributed across the outlet’s social and digital platforms. The new series, co-produced with Earnhardt’s Dirty Mo Media, will have him interview special guests while driving each of TNT’s five NASCAR Sprint Cup Series tracks with them in the passenger seat.
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