{"id":125704,"date":"2017-07-24T15:29:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T20:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=125704"},"modified":"2017-07-25T08:58:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:58:57","slug":"earnhardt-jr-to-nbc-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=125704","title":{"rendered":"Earnhardt, Jr., to NBC in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-120336\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EarnhardtDale-Jr.-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EarnhardtDale-Jr.-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EarnhardtDale-Jr.-431x287.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EarnhardtDale-Jr.-263x175.jpg 263w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EarnhardtDale-Jr..jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Dale Earnhardt Jr. will have a new way to voice his racing opinions next season &#8211; on television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">NASCAR&#8217;s most popular driver will join NBC Sports Group&#8217;s coverage of stock car racing next year and there may be more options once he climbs out of the car for good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">The agreement with NBCUniversal announced Monday will allow Earnhardt to pursue &#8220;a wide range of opportunities in the company&#8217;s media businesses, including movies, television, podcasts, and other areas&#8221; including football and perhaps even the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve always just drove race cars. So this is probably the first real job I&#8217;ve had in 20 years,&#8221; Earnhardt said on a conference call. &#8220;This is an incredible opportunity for me to start an entirely new career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"entry-content\">NBC said it was also partnering with Earnhardt on some of his other businesses, including Dirty Mo Media and Hammerhead Entertainment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Dale Earnhardt Jr. will have a new way to voice his racing opinions next season &#8211; on television. NASCAR&#8217;s most popular driver will join NBC Sports Group&#8217;s coverage of stock car racing next year and there may be more options once he climbs out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125705,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125704\/revisions\/125705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}