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 Saturday’s race. ABC was the broadcaster for this event.
Total number of commercials: 109
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 68
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 24
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:52 pm
End time to record race/commercial periods: 11:18 pm
Total minutes: 206
Minutes of race broadcast: 154
Minutes of commercials: 52
Number of missed restarts: 0 one very close call
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 2
Number of times a commercial for ESPN’s SportsCenter was shown in split-screen with the race broadcast: 3
Total race brdcst time 154 Total comm. brdcst time 52
See more and how many times selected drivers were focused on my 2009 Commercials page.(9-14-2009)
