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- ↑ 1982 Winston Cup Twin 125's race 2 part 2 of 2 on YouTube
- ↑ 1983 UNO Twin 125s on YouTube
- ↑ 1983 UNO Twin 125 Qualifiers on YouTube
- ↑ 1984 UNO Twin 125 Qualifiers on YouTube
- ↑ Feb 14, 1982 - The 1979— Daytona 500 was a classic race, and it happened to be the first one televised live, start to finish, by The network could hardly ... and made a deal with the USA cable network to furnish the qualifiers for cablecasting Fri day night. doing this, in effect, satisfies the inter ...
- ↑ Feb 16, 1984 - The trucks which pulled Into Daytona International Speedway last week were all not necessarily those containing the cars of the NASCAR drivers ... The USA Network will show the two 125 mile qualifying races Friday night at 8 but that Is under an agreement where the cable network ...
- ↑ Mar 29, 1982 - ... ... th Nabisco Dinah Shore Invitational Sports has signed a pact with video evangelist Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcast Network for the Dinah ... the right to tape them for replay later which has been in the business of cable since it split coverage of the Daytona 500 with USA Cable ...
- ↑ Apr 10, 1982 - an undisclosed fee for two days of broadcast rights USA had so little to do with the telecasts that it had just one of its own people on air ... as he stated it has worked Ratings for the Daytona 500 improved Bait the viewer with cable hook him with the network broadcast not saying I ...
- ↑ 1985 NASCAR North at Bryar - Intro on YouTube
- ↑ "Jayski's® NASCAR Silly Season Site - NASCAR Sprint Cup News Page". Archived from the original on 2013-11-16. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
- ↑ Kelly Crandall (November 2, 2021). "NASCAR announces networks and start times for 2022". Racer.