Menu
Download the app

SBJ subscribers – Enhance your experience with the revamped iOS app

Events and Attractions

Daytona Speedway Uses Fishing Event To Drum Up Interest For July NASCAR Weekend

Daytona Int'l Speedway officials hope to use a fishing outing with NASCAR driver Tony Stewart and pro angler Jimmy Houston and “other promotional events to put the Coke Zero 400 at the front of fans' minds" well before the Sprint Cup Series race on July 6, according to Jeffrey Cassady of the Daytona Beach NEWS-JOURNAL. The track's annual summer race has become “more of a regional affair.” DIS VP/Marketing Sean Belgrade said that 60% of those attending the July 4th weekend event “typically come from within Florida.” DIS officials, tourism professionals and hoteliers said that the race, which last year “drew an estimated 115,000 people, is too large and too dependent on late bookings and drive-distance visitors to not promote heavily in the final few weeks before the race.” Belgrade said that DIS for this year's race has booked singer Sheryl Crow for a pre-race concert and "sent NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne to make a promotional appearance earlier this week in the important drive-time Tampa market and got an early start on announcing hotels that will offer discounted room rates over the race weekend.” He added that driver Aric Almirola “will appear June 25 in Tampa, the second-largest source of Coke Zero attendees behind Orlando” (Daytona Beach NEWS-JOURNAL, 6/13). In Daytona Beach, Ken Willis notes Houston was “trucked in” yesterday for the promotion and the bass fisher's “presence made for a happier Tony Stewart.” Stewart said, “It used to be you'd show up, do TV, print media, maybe do something quirky. Nowadays, the tracks are finding ways to make it fun for us. To be able to come out here and fish with Jimmy Houston, that's a cool day” (Daytona Beach NEWS-JOURNAL, 6/13).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2013/06/13/Events-and-Attractions/DIS-fishing.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2013/06/13/Events-and-Attractions/DIS-fishing.aspx

CLOSE