Rolex 24 now streaming only. (drivers, road, chicane, tuning)

[Bruceski44]

NBCSports has bailed out of broadcast TV. The entire IMSA schedule will now only be shown on their app or peacock streaming service. The app is free to download, but requires authentification to use. All you have to do is sign on with your username and password used for your TV provider's account. Does anyone else have a problem with providing them all your login credentials? Live streaming is the same process.

The FAQs on the IMSA website also include this gem:
Q: Why is authentication being required?
A: Authentication supports our ongoing investment in sports programming for all of our platforms and is consistent with industry trends. Digital platforms require significant investment, and authentication allows us to capture the value of that investment, which in turn allows us to continue to provide cable/satellite/telco/live streaming service customers with high-quality sports coverage wherever and whenever they want at no additional cost. Of course, NBC Sports continues to make premier live sporting events and other sports programming available to all viewers on free over-the-air television through the NBC broadcast network.

I wonder how having my login credentials allows NBC to "...capture the value of that investment..."

Many networks are compelling viewers to sign up for their streaming service, but providing my login credentials is a giant step too far. There are many exciting changes underway in IMSA, from the new LMDH prototypes to the consolidation of the GT class. I've enjoyed watching the TV coverage in the past, and want to stay tuned, but this is ridiculous. To be perfectly clear, providing them my login credentials is a voluntary sacrifice of my privacy and potentially self-destructive.

https://www.imsa.com/domesticcoverage/

[leadfoot4]

I can't say that I've been a faithful viewer of IMSA racing on TV, but I did enjoy tuning in, several times a year. However, I'm NOT willing to go through all of that hassle, just to watch an hour or two's worth of racing, once in a while. Long story short, they've lost a viewer.......

[Bruceski44]

UPDATE:
Now presented live on NBC and USA.
STARTING 9:30 am ET 1/29

[castlechurch]

Works for me, I already subscribe to Peacock, so this is just one more reason to keep it.

[leadfoot4]

Originally Posted by Bruceski44

UPDATE:
Now presented live on NBC and USA.
STARTING 9:30 am ET 1/29

Yes..........I caught the last 25-30 minutes of the race, on a regular local NBC affiliate. I was just in time to see the Porsche team drivers go "Earnhardt and Waltrip" on each other, entering the back stretch chicane.....

[castlechurch]

It was a great race, the last hour or so was really exciting. Now looking forward to Sebring.

[NORTY FLATZ]

"Streaming" on NBC, right now.

Those Caddies are FAST.

But the Acura was faster...

[Bruceski44]

Resurrecting a year-old thread to spoil this year's race? Not cool.