For those of you NASCAR fans that like stats and love to hate commercials, here is the breakdown for Sunday’s race. Began recording the times at the Invocation of the race at 1:00 pm/et and stopped at the waving of the checkered flag at 4:12pm/et. TNT was the broadcast team for this event.
Total number of commercials: 117 Total number of companies or entities advertised: 57
Number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during race broadcast (split-screen): 0
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 39
Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 3 min. 30 sec.
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 1:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 4:12 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 192
Minutes of race broadcast: 134
Minutes of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 58
Minutes of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials (split-screen): 0
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 1
Total race brdcst time 134 Total comm. brdcst time 58
See other 2014 races, and links to full reports on the 2014 TV Commercials page.(6-10-2014)
