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Digger
Guest
I can't wait for this. Daytona, with only 16 minutes of commercial interruption.
FOX, ESPN, take notes.
FOX, ESPN, take notes.
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RCR4Life
Guest
To bad that 16 minutes will be the finish and all the action 
wilson89
Team Owner
hmmm so are they gonna pull a abc and do the side by side
last year all commercials were just semi-transparent not-quite-full-screen overlays.
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Digger
Guest
Commercials are done in a box in the corner of the screen, see below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shvANA_b_ZU
Interviews are done in the same screen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbd590nIjwU
TNT refers to it as "Wide Open Coverage." They also run all the stats and results at the bottom of the screen as well, thus not coming down the side of the screen.
wilson89
Team Owner
they should do this with all there races
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Digger
Guest
There's talk about doing it at Chicago.
TNT says it can only be done on Saturday night races, and on cable, because there's not as much market watching.
The reason IRL can do it is because commercial time doesn't cost as much and there isn't a large market you're reaching out to.
IRL gets maybe two million viewers for their average races. And that number's stood since 2005. It was less before. In short, Danica is the IRL.
I would love to see more wide open races, but that would mean TNT would have more races. That will take action from the fans at this point.
We can start here of course/