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, and stopped at the waving of the checkered flag at 4:07 PM (all times are EST). TNT was the broadcast team for this event.
Total number of commercials: 118
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 64
Number of times TNT utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during this broadcast: 0
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 38
Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 4 min.
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 1:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 4:07 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 187
Minutes of race broadcast: 132
Minutes of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 55
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 1
Total race brdcst time 132 Total comm. brdcst time 55
For past races, links to full reports go to the 2014 TV Commericals page.
