NA$SCAR and commercials

[IC2]

Do you get the idea that the weekly NA$CAR race is run on TV solely for the commercials? Well this is yesterday's Bristol race:

Beginning at the invocation and ending at the checkered flag - total race broadcast time 138. Total for the race with commercials being broadcast, time 58. That folks is 42% of the time that you are watching the "race" you are being subjected to real close to half of your time to commercials. That was broken down into 127 commercials by 63 different entities. This doesn't include the other crap crawling along the screen - and that was 32(or more).

This is a good website to check out these statistics: http://www.cawsnjaws.com/article/380...-food-city-500

[Dave Severson]

Not a cheap event to put on the tube.... Heck, all of TV is going that way but it seems they are really nailing anything sports related....As with anything, it's controlled by the reality of economics......well, maybe a bit of greed thrown in....

[flh4speed]

dave w you got way to much time on your hands!

[IC2]

Not a cheap event to put on the tube.... Heck, all of TV is going that way but it seems they are really nailing anything sports related....As with anything, it's controlled by the reality of economics......well, maybe a bit of greed thrown in....

Dave - I can't disagree with you about economics but with a commercial ending at lap 32 and another beginning at lap 39 is a bit ridiculous. At ~15 seconds a lap (new tires), we saw 7 laps which translates to ~1 minute 45 seconds racing between 3 more minutes of commercials. That was when I turned on the VCR and taped the rest.

A regular "1 hour" TV show is now 41 minutes without a full screen commercial, and even those 41 minutes have crawlers doing some advertising. That's 34% advertising.

My answer - I don't watch TV except for some races, maybe a football or baseball game and some news. At my age, my attention span is too short plus terminal CRS has taken my interest away

As Newton J Minnow said a bunch of years ago (1961) - TV "...you will observe vast wasteland" ( http://janda.org/b20/News%20articles/vastwastland.htm )

[IC2]

dave w you got way to much time on your hands!

Until the @#$% snow disappears and the temp goes to 50* - you got that right

[Dave Severson]

I don't like them either, but I do occasionally like to sit and watch a race so I guess it's got to be tolerated...... Heck, used to watch all the races that were on the tube....maybe that's why I don't anymore....

[bluestang67]

Even in a 1 hour show they have 20 minutes of commercial .

[dangeroustoy]

My observation has been that the event coverage on FOX is worse than others... I can't remember which network it was that last season that actually showed a small box in the corner of the screen that showed the races while the comercials were running so that you did not miss the race!

Dave Brisco

[robot]

I tivo the race so the commercials can be jumped. Then, you can watch the race in a low fast-forward speed and play it in normal speed when the action gets interesting. This condenses the normal race into a manageable program. If it is a really boring race, I watch the last 20 laps and fast forward thru the commercials. Right now, Fox is running six 60-second commercials at some of the breaks!

TIVO is the greatest invention since perforated paper on a roll!!

[dangeroustoy]

One thing I did notice this weekend...

You have to admit that many of the commercials running during NASCAR are some of the the best!!!

I have become a huge Lauren Wallace fan!!!

Dave

[Stu Cool]

Waaa! Geez guys you are getting to watch a race live, or nearly live for free! Or for whatever you pay for cable or satellite at least. If you went to the track figure out how much that would cost you, plus you would still miss parts of the race when you went to pee or buy one of those $8-12 sammiches or a glass of beer. You gotta pay the price of admission somehow, I guess commercial are it. Remember not too long ago there might have been 2-3 races a year on TV tops, and no Internet, so you did not even know who won unless your local paper might carry the results the next day. And like someone said, watching those cars go round in circles when nothing is happening is boring anyway, and you know if something good happens during commercial they will replay it eleventy seven times from every angle when the commercial is over. I usually DVR record the NHRA drag races for the same reason. Then I can skip over the stuff I don't want to watch and finish a 3 hour show in half the time. Less couch potato time taking away from my projects.

Pat

[kitz]

At least this past weekend there was many other things to watch in parallel;

1) UT-Kansas (my Longhorns lost yet another Big 12 championship )
2) Rockets-Lakers (Rockets won 22nd in a row!)
3) Tiger won again!


............ I ain't watchin' no stinkin' commercials!

Kitz

[Dave Severson]

One thing I did notice this weekend...

You have to admit that many of the commercials running during NASCAR are some of the the best!!!

I have become a huge Lauren Wallace fan!!!

Dave

I think he's the man!!! Sure would be good to get him under contract now!!!! Think he's the one!!!!! Those commercials making having to put up watching the rest of them!!!

[colorado815]

Commercials? that is what my dvr is built for. Check into the c-time for the Sup. Bowl. And BIG $$$$ per min there.

[IC2]

I think he's the man!!! Sure would be good to get him under contract now!!!! Think he's the one!!!!! Those commercials making having to put up watching the rest of them!!!

They are among the best - but we need to see some new ones soon

But then there are the Toyota Tundra impossible situation commercials every 3.5 minutes that almost make me scream.