Fox Sports to Provide Live Coverage from 7th Annual Car Auction
From the 7th Annual Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas Auction, Fox Sports will provide 23 hours of live coverage starting September 25 at 7 p.m.
Airing on Fox Sports 2 and Fox Sports Go, Elvis Presley’s ’67 Cadillac Coupe de Ville and Johnny Cash’s ’70 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow on the Block will be featured.
Lead by Bob Varsha, an eight-member team including Mike Joy, Steve Magnante, Rick DeBruhl, Justin Bell, April Rose, Ralph Sheheen and Tom Jensen, will kick off the auctioning from the Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas.
The auction will finish with a 10-hour live block on National Geographic Channel on September 27th at 2 p.m.
The Hagerty Fantasy Bid will allow viewers to compete in guessing the final “hammer” price prior to 16 chosen cars through three days of coverage.
In the first year, 50,000 bids were recorded through the interactive fantasy bid, topping more than 1.5 million in past years.
Television schedule is as follows (subject to change):
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September 25:
7 p.m. to Midnight on Fox Sports 2 & Fox Sports Go
September 26:
2 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Fox Sports 2 & Fox Sports Go
7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Fox Sports Go
8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Fox Sports 2 & Fox Sports Go
September 27:
2 p.m. to Midnight on National Geographic Channel & Fox Sports Go
For more information on the fantasy bid, click here.
To learn more about the auction, click here.