Last year, Sprint Cup Series events ranked among the top two sports of the weekend on television 20 out of 36 points event weekends, with an average of 4.1 million households and 5.8 million viewers tuned into each NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event.
On June 1, Sprint announced it was reducing its voting interest in Clearwire to 49.8 percent from about 54 percent previously by surrendering Class b voting shares.