For those of you NASCAR fans that like stats and love to hate commercials, here is the breakdown for Sunday s race. This was the last race of the 2013 season. Began recording the times at the Invocation of the race at 3:02 PM, and stopped at the waving of the checkered flag at 6:25 PM (all times are EST). ESPN was the broadcast team for this event. Total number of commercials: 110 Total number of companies or entities advertised: 52 Number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 64 Total number of companies or entities advertised: 36 Number of Side-by-Side commercials during race broadcast (split-screen): 46 Total number of companies or entities advertised: 30 Number of times ESPN utilized Side-by-Side commercials during this broadcast: 9 Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 23 Total number of companies or entities advertised in brief promos or crawlers: 16 Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 2 min. 55 sec. Start time to record race/commercial periods: 3:02 PM End time to record race/commercial periods: 6:25 PM Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 203 Minutes of race broadcast: 173 Minutes of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 30 Minutes of Side-by-Side commercials (split-screen): 23 Number of missed restarts: 0 Number of mystery cautions (debris not shown): 1 Total race brdcst time 173 Total comm. brdcst time 30 See past races, links, more info on the 2013 TV Commercials page .
