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•New Hampshire TV Ratings: ESPN's live telecast of the Sylvania 300 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday, Sept. 25, earned a 3.1 household coverage rating, averaging 4,235,000 viewers, according to the Nielsen Company. The rating was up 19% from last year's New Hampshire race, which also aired on ESPN and earned a 2.6 rating. The telecast also saw double-digit growth in key audience demographics, including a 28% rise in the Male 18-34 demographic and a 20% rise in the Male 18-49 demographic. The audience also saw 33 percent of growth in the Persons 55+ demographic.(ESPN), see past TV Ratings for the season and past four seasons on the 2011 TV Ratings page.(9-27-2011)
 
See... Jr made the chase and his fans are coming back.

For years it has always amazed me how people will pay $100 for a ticket and as soon as Jr is out, most of the Jr fans leave.
 
I've been wondering if it's that Jr is in or that JJ is so
far behind. May be a combination of both?
 
19% is a huge increase, that's great news. I'm not so sure it has anything to do with any one or two drivers, I just think the sport as a whole is coming back.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Two reasons:

a) Junyer in the Chase and in contention after Chicago.
b) NASCAR Nonstop.

Like Smoke14 said, once Junyer is mathematically eliminated from it, ratings will fall.
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or the people get tired of 3X the commercials on the nonstop coverage.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Two reasons:

a) Junyer in the Chase and in contention after Chicago.
b) NASCAR Nonstop.

Like Smoke14 said, once Junyer is mathematically eliminated from it, ratings will fall.
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And on the other hand, when Jr is in the lead, the ratings will go thru the roof. :beerbang:
 
mike honcho said:
or the people get tired of 3X the commercials on the nonstop coverage.
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There were fewer commercials during NASCAR Nonstop than during the first half of the race.

As far as the number of commercials and time spent at commercials, remembering that ESPN is using the same RaceBuddy platform TNT uses, the New Hampshire race (without side-by-side) had way more commercials than ESPN's all around broadcast.

I'd rather hear "As you saw on NASCAR Nonstop" than hear TNT's favorite words, "While we were away."
 
Someone needs to slap TNT in the face with a reality check. When we watch races on TNT my wife says "We might as well mute the TV and call the race ourselves because we know more about what is going on with the race than they do." And she is right! TNT absolutely sucks! They make so many mistakes, obvious mistakes, it's like watching a show hosted by baseball announcers that are watching their first NASCAR race ever.
 
Jvan said:
I've been wondering if it's that Jr is in or that JJ is so
far behind. May be a combination of both?
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I think you're on it more than most everyone here. If this ratings trend continues, I'd guess it has more to do with the possibility of a driver other than someone named Johnson with a chance of winning the title. No offense to you Johnson fans out there but it's getting old. It's great to see others stepping up their game to dethrone the guy. If he somehow, and I don't doubt that he will, works his way back to the top of the pile then I think you'll see the television numbers settle down again.

It's great to see that you all give us Jr. fans so much credit for the ratings boost. Regardless of his position in the standings or on the track, on a given Sunday, I've never tuned out or away. You'd never see this Jr. fan get up and leave a race should he fall out. Which, by the way, you haven't really seen that happen all that much since shedding the DEI engine woes. Only nine DNF's since joining Hendrick in 2008. Heck, he had nine DNF's alone in his last season with DEI. Six of which were engine failures. You don't have to look it up. I already did. :D

I don't know how much the current network has to do with it. Even when we NASCAR fans don't like the broadcasting network, more than likely we watch it and then complain about it afterwords. Sure it's nice to see the 'NASCAR Nonstop' feature but is it really that big of a deal that people are tuning in because of it? I don't know. I didn't see or do that survey.
 
Thanks for the compliment, the only network thing that hasn't
bothered me in the second half of the season is knowing I can
hear the start of a race and DON'T have to hear "boogity, boogity,
boogity boys let's go racing! And it's also a releif NOT to view that
"Rodent Cam" in the lower right corner of the screen! Rant off.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
There were fewer commercials during NASCAR Nonstop than during the first half of the race.

As far as the number of commercials and time spent at commercials, remembering that ESPN is using the same RaceBuddy platform TNT uses, the New Hampshire race (without side-by-side) had way more commercials than ESPN's all around broadcast.

I'd rather hear "As you saw on NASCAR Nonstop" than hear TNT's favorite words, "While we were away."
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I supposed you counted them:confused:
 
KingGlamis said:
Someone needs to slap TNT in the face with a reality check. When we watch races on TNT my wife says "We might as well mute the TV and call the race ourselves because we know more about what is going on with the race than they do." And she is right! TNT absolutely sucks! They make so many mistakes, obvious mistakes, it's like watching a show hosted by baseball announcers that are watching their first NASCAR race ever.
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TNT---Ten Nitwits Talking
 
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