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 Sunday’s race. TNT was the broadcast team for this event.
Total number of commercials: 108
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 78
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 35
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 3:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 6:40 PM
Total minutes: 220
Minutes of race broadcast: 161
Minutes of commercials: 59
Number of missed restarts: 0 although there was one very close call
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 0
Number of lead news anchors to sing the National Anthem: 1 Robin Meade
Number of announcements that Kyle Busch will really drive that pink bunnies, kittens and baby seals No. 18 Toyotas: 1
Number of road course Foot Cams: 2 Robby Gordon; Kasey Kahne
Number of messages sent by Foot Cam: 1 ‘Hi Dad’ on Kasey Kahne’s fire shoe
Number of demonstrations of how to drive with a hood up in front of your windshield: 1 by Denny Hamlin
Total race brdcst time 161 Total comm. brdcst time 59
See driver breakdown and link to full report, see my 2010 TV Commercials page.(6-22-2010)
