Fox’s broadcast of Saturday night’s Dodge Charger 500 from Darlington Raceway earned a 4.7 overnight rating and a 9 market share from Nielsen Media Research, Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Daily reports. NASCAR has not raced on Mother’s Day weekend in recent years, so the figures can’t be compared to the same weekend last year. The 4.7 rating for a race run during the usually weak Saturday night period is down 9.6% from the 5.2 Fox drew with last year’s March 21 Darlington race, which was run on a Sunday afternoon. But the figure is up 4.4% from the 4.5 overnight figures for this year’s Phoenix race, which was also run on a Saturday night.(NASCAR Scene Daily Newsletter)(5-9-2005)
