{"id":451221,"date":"2026-02-03T13:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/451221\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:16:15","slug":"fox-nascar-announces-changes-to-broadcast-booth-for-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/451221\/","title":{"rendered":"FOX NASCAR announces changes to broadcast booth for 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOX Sports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/presspass\/blog\/2026\/02\/02\/full-throttle-to-history-fox-sports-races-into-record-books-with-unparalleled-23rd-daytona-500-broadcast-on-fox\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> on Monday major changes to its broadcast booth for the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/category\/nascar\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR<\/a> Truck Series season. Jamie Little, who served as the series\u2019 play-by-play announcer in 2025, will return this season, albeit in a shared role.<\/p>\n<p>Little will be on the call alongside Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano for the Feb. 13 season opener at Daytona International Speedway. From there, she will share play-by-play duties with Eric Brennan and Brent Stover. It\u2019s a call-up of sorts for Brennan and Stover, who both have experience calling races in the ARCA Menards Series. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFOX Sports embarks on its 24th\u00a0season of NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series coverage in 2026,\u201d FOX Sports said in a press release. \u201cLittle, the first and only female play-by-play announcer in NASCAR, calls the season opener from Daytona on\u00a0Friday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 PM ET on FS1, with analysis from Harvick and three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion\u00a0Joey Logano. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Josh] Sims, [Mamba] Smith and veteran broadcaster\u00a0Amanda Busick\u00a0report from pit road at Daytona. Veteran motorsports announcers\u00a0Eric Brennan\u00a0and\u00a0Brent Stover\u00a0also handle play-by-play duties in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR Truck Series booth will look different in 2026<\/p>\n<p>Little, the longtime pit road reporter, shared the play-by-play role with Adam Alexander in 2023 and 2024. Alexander then left the network for The CW, Prime Video, and TNT Sports. Little took over the full-time role this past season. She will continue to serve as a pit reporter during the Cup Series broadcasts. <\/p>\n<p>On that front, no changes. Mike Joy is back in the booth as play-by-play man. He will be joined by Harvick and Clint Bowyer for a third consecutive season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOX Sports announced on Monday major changes to its broadcast booth for the 2026 NASCAR Truck Series season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-451221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}