Commercial breakdown of the Dickies 500

[kat2220]

Commercial breakdown of the Dickies 500:

Total number of commercials: 152 (in 2006: 159)
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 74 (in 2006: 85)
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 19 (in 2006: 23)
Start time to record race/commercial periods 11/04/07: 3:36 PM (in 2006: 2:41 PM)
End time to record race/commercial periods 11/04/07: 7:26 PM (in 2006: 7:30 PM)
Total minutes: 230 (in 2006: 289)
Minutes of race broadcast: 169 (in 2006: 214)
Minutes of commercials: 61 (in 2006: 75)
Number of movie star sightings: 1 (Vince Vaughn)
Number of missed restarts: 1
See the full report at CawsnJaws.com.

 

[Digger]

Commercial breakdown of the Dickies 500:

Total number of commercials: 152 (in 2006: 159)
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 74 (in 2006: 85)
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 19 (in 2006: 23)
Start time to record race/commercial periods 11/04/07: 3:36 PM (in 2006: 2:41 PM)
End time to record race/commercial periods 11/04/07: 7:26 PM (in 2006: 7:30 PM)
Total minutes: 230 (in 2006: 289)
Minutes of race broadcast: 169 (in 2006: 214)
Minutes of commercials: 61 (in 2006: 75)
Number of movie star sightings: 1 (Vince Vaughn)
Number of missed restarts: 1
See the full report at CawsnJaws.com.

These numbers are way unfair.

NBC covered the last 76 laps commercial free at Texas (maybe it was Atlanta), and moved the postrace to CNBC (not a channel that's not avaliable in one of the largest markets in the nation, hence ESPN Classic).

And their coverage was decent.