TNN Motor Sports (Johnsonverse)

TNN Motor Sports is a sports programming block on The Nashville Network since the network's launch in 1983. TNN Motor Sports specializes in coverage of motorsports of various formats, most commonly auto racing.
==History==
TNN Motor Sports began when the network itself launched in 1983. During that time, TNN started airing a motor sports and auto racing themed program during the racing season known as American Sports Cavalcade. American Sports Cavalcade was produced by a production company called Diamond P Sports. On the very first episode, the sport of swamp buggy racing from Naples, Florida, was featured. Diamond P produced all of TNN's motor sports coverage through 1992. Then, in 1993, TNN began working with World Sports Enterprises to produce their NASCAR coverage, and Group 5 Sports to produce their coverage of the ASA. Diamond P would continue to produce most of the rest of their motor sports coverage.
TNN has a self-operating and self-promoting sub-division called TNN Motor Sports, and has aired races produced by that division since 1991. Under the TNN Motor Sports umbrella, NASCAR series races (including those of the RCA Cup Series and Busch Series, as well as the Craftsman Truck Series) are the most prominently featured, but other racing organizations, such as USAC, IMSA and SCCA sports car series, ASA stock car series, USAC and World of Outlaws sprint car series, the NHRA drag racing series, AMA supercross and superbikes, and monster truck racing and truck and tractor pulling from TNT Motorsports were also showcased. Since 1991, TNN has aired the RaceDay magazine show on Sunday mornings, anchored first by Pat Patterson and currently by Rick Benjamin.
In 1995, the motorsports operations were moved into the industrial park located at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, where Johnson Industries (TNN's principal owner) had purchased a controlling interest in World Sports Enterprises, a motorsports production company, from WSE's founder Ken Squier.
Also by 2000, Johnson purchased the remaining interest in TNN. TNN's ties to WBC have allowed it to carry WBC Sports' run overs, which happened during a NASCAR Busch Series race at Texas Motor Speedway in 1999; the 1998 Pepsi 400 was also moved to TNN when the race was postponed from the traditional July date to October 17, 1998, as a result of the 1998 Florida wildfires. Other motorsports events during this era were broadcast under the banner of Motor Madness.
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