Quote Originally Posted by 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....
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 )