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 4:16 PM (all times are EST). TNT was the broadcast team for this event. This was their last NASCAR race, as next season Fox and NBC will be the only networks airing races.
Total number of commercials: 114
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 46
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: 30
Total amount of time these brief promos take during broadcast: app. 4 min. 45 sec.
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 1:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 4:16 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 196
Minutes of race broadcast: 137
Minutes of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 59
Number of missed restarts: 0
Number of ‘mystery cautions’ (debris not shown): 0
Total race brdcst time 137 Total comm. brdcst time 59
See past races, links to more detailed reports on the 2014 TV Commercials page.
