For those of you NASCAR fans that like stats and love to hate commercials, or wonder how often your driver was focused on, here is the breakdown for Saturdays race. ESPN was the broadcast team for this event.
Total number of commercials: 76
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 61
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 47
Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 4 min. 5 sec.
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:32 pm
End time to record race/commercial periods: 11:09 pm
Total minutes: 217
Minutes of race broadcast: 166
Minutes of commercials: 51
Number of missed restarts: 0 three close calls
Number of AT&T commercials abruptly cut into to come back to a restart: 1 Thanks, ESPN
Number of mystery cautions (no debris shown): 0
Total race brdcst time 166 Total comm. brdcst time 51
See full report, driver focus and more on 2009 TV Commercials page.(8-24-2009)
