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 last SundayÂs race at Kansas. Recording began at the Invocation of the race at 1:00 PM, and stopped at the waving of the checkered flag at 4:14 PM (all times are EST). Fox was the broadcast team for this event.
Total number of commercials: 118
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 66
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 60
Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 6 min. 15 sec.
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 1:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 4:14 PM
Total minutes: 194
Minutes of race broadcast: 142
Minutes of commercials: 52
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of Âmystery cautions (debris not shown): 1 during a commercial break; debris was referred to but not seen
Number of cowboy hat-wearin famous racers to give the call to start the engines: 1 Richard Petty
Number of ÂDigger appearances: 8
Number of wry driver requests during the race: 1 Carl Edwards asking for coffee or hot chocolate
Number of commercials shown split-screen during the broadcast: 4 Thank you, ÂTrue Grit movie, Pizza Hut, ToyotaRacing.com, Sprint, and Fox!
Total race brdcst time 142 Total comm. brdcst time 52
See more details, links and past races on the Television Commercial News page.(6-12-2011)
