NA$SCAR and commercials

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

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 w you got way to much time on your hands!:D

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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....

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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:eek: :CRY: :LOL: :LOL:

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 )

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Originally Posted by flh4speed

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

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

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....

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

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

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!!

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

Waaa! :CRY: 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. :LOL:

Pat

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 :CRY: )
2) Rockets-Lakers (Rockets won 22nd in a row!)
3) Tiger won again!


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

Kitz

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Originally Posted by 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

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

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



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Originally Posted by Dave Severson

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

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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.

[QUOTE=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 :CRY: )
2) Rockets-Lakers (Rockets won 22nd in a row!)
3) Tiger won again!


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

Kitz[/QUOTE
And don't forget the Old Guys (Champions Tour) Dennis Watson won in a play off with Roberts And Bryant.

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Originally Posted by IC2

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.

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Think I'll call them up at Toyota and tell them I'll buy a Tundra if they agree to cut the number of commercials in half!!!!

What's more scary is that the average time the race was being shown was 3.65 minutes. (There were 22 "gaps" between commercials where the race was on screen. Total race time on screen was 80 minutes.)

Horsepower TV and Musclecar are worse, I think. I swear that they do 5 minutes of show, then five minutes of commercial. Of course, most of the "show" part of the show is commercials also.

Horsepower and Muscle Car( I miss LOU) have gotten worse,way too many commercials and nothing for the average rodder,they act like all us viewers have fat wallets and a dyno in the Garage they need to get real.

I looked in on one of those shows a couple of weeks ago - I really do not want to be shouted at by a car show host about all his "good work"(advertisement). There's much more not to like, but another forum worked them over pretty well tho had nothing to do with my not watching those shows.

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Originally Posted by IC2

I looked in on one of those shows a couple of weeks ago - I really do not want to be shouted at by a car show host about all his "good work"(advertisement). There's much more not to like, but another forum worked them over pretty well tho had nothing to do with my not watching those shows.

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I find these shows (Horsepower TV) to be alot like "This Old House" & New Yankee Workshop" , I'm sure alot of us could create objects d'art if we had every tool known to man. Yet, I'd still watch'em just to see the possibilities. I still enjoy them for what they are. Basically a commercial for Jeg's / Summit / Edelbrock / whoever.... And I think that's okay, it's an outlet to see some new technologies and techniques.

The only other things good to watch are NasCLONE and Drag Races.

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Originally Posted by JeffB2

Horsepower and Muscle Car( I miss LOU) have gotten worse,way too many commercials and nothing for the average rodder,they act like all us viewers have fat wallets and a dyno in the Garage they need to get real.

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I really liked the Musclecar show when Lou Santiago was on there. He did some great fabrication and wasn't just bolting on expensive parts. I also miss Stacey from Trucks for the same reason. He had/has another show called Gearz, but I have trouble finding that one.

It's a shame when what was a great show turns into an infomercial.

Pat

My wife wanted me to turn on one of her favorite tv shows a couple of nights ago. It was to start at 9 PM so she asked me to change the channel at about 8:58. I told her there was no point because of the commercials on the lead in. She didn't believe me until she sat through 10 uninterrupted minutes of commercials before the show actually started at 9:11. She was pissed. So in reality the average one hour show that used to be about 45 minutes long is now just 35 minutes in total. At this rate, I can see a TIVO in my future.:LOL: :LOL:

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Originally Posted by mopar34

My wife wanted me to turn on one of her favorite tv shows a couple of nights ago. It was to start at 9 PM so she asked me to change the channel at about 8:58. I told her there was no point because of the commercials on the lead in. She didn't believe me until she sat through 10 uninterrupted minutes of commercials before the show actually started at 9:11. She was pissed. So in reality the average one hour show that used to be about 45 minutes long is now just 35 minutes in total. At this rate, I can see a TIVO in my future.:LOL: :LOL:

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What some of the shows do is give you a 5 or so minute "update" from last weeks show. The one regular show that I do watch is Survivor. At least 5 minutes is wasted there with the "previously" BS before they go into the first 5 minute commercial. So - I just use my VCR and fast forward (too cheap to invest in TiVo with at least 4 VCR/DVD combos including one in the camper)