Saturday night’s Cup race at the newly named Echo Park Speedway was the first broadcast of this season for TNT. This followed Amazon Prime’s five-race run, wherein they relied heavily on side-by-side ads, instead of traditional break-away commercials. TNT’s approach to balancing commercials and race coverage reverted back to regular commercial breaks, and only utilized the side-by-side format a few times. For those fans who would like to know precisely how things shook out, here is this week’s breakdown.
Race and Commercial Breakdown of the 2025 Quaker State 400 Available at Walmart
Start time to record race/commercial periods: 7:00 PM
Stop time for rain delay: 8:00 PM
Restart time: 8:12 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods: 11:21 PM
Total minutes of complete race broadcast: 249
Minutes of race broadcast: 214
Minutes of traditional commercials: 35
Minutes of side-by-side commercials: 16
Total number of commercials: 117
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 60
Total number of traditional commercials (not split-screen): 84
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 53
Total number of ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast (split-screen): 33
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 18
Number of times TNT utilized ‘Side-by-Side’ commercials during the broadcast: 5
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