Commercial breakdown for the Food City 500 at Bristol:

Total number of commercials: 138 Total number of companies or entities advertised: 64 Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 28 Total number of companies or entities advertised in brief promos or crawlers: 27 Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 2 min. 30 sec. Items of interest this week: ABC missed more than one restart during the Busch race of Saturday. At one point during Sunday’s race, Fox returned from commercial and did an app. 25 seconds of promos, nearly missing one restart. Just as the cameras focused on the track, the green flag flew and the cars surged forward. Close one. So far this year, have not recorded Fox missing one restart. Start time to record race/commercial periods: 2:11 P.M. End time to record race/commercial periods: 5:45 P.M. Total minutes: 214 Minutes of race broadcast: 154 Minutes of commercials: 60 See full report at CawsnJaws.com.(3-26-2007)