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Monday Night Daytona 500 Fires Up Fox's Ratings

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsideth...0-the-voice-lead-the-pack-smash-up-a-bit.html

The race barely beat "The Voice" in terms of viewers in the 8 PM hour, while Carson Daly's "American Idol" clone prevailed in the 9 PM hour. Meanwhile, the Fox rating for the 10 PM hour was not available. That was around the time there was a two-hour "red flag" today due to a driver setting off a jet fuel fire. I'd have to think there was strong viewership for Fox after 10 PM. FWIW, "Hawaii Five-O" won the 10 PM hour* for CBS.
 
I'm thinking NASCAR isn't as popular on TV as some people think. Particularly on a workday evening when the race was delayed by non-stop crashes.

NASCAR's product has slipped greatly over the past decade or so and every time they fiddle with the race process or the cars it seems to get worse. Plate racing is by itself unworthy and boring but the worst part is it causes everyone to bunch up in a pack and inevitably leads to multi-car incidents. Not only does this deplete the field and take out drivers that fans want to follow but the race takes forever to run. Last night's race took six hours flag-to-flag. Way too long and way too late at night, even in the Mountain time zone. Even without JPM's faux pas it would have been close to five hours.

An article in Yahoo.com this morning eluded to NASCAR perhaps considering following the success of the NFL's MNF and putting some of their races on Monday in prime time. They better start early and they better not run over three hours. A 500 mile race is not a good candidate for prime time on a weeknight.
 
I thought that big fire was interesting for about 15 minutes.........and then it got old.

It sure took them awhile to get a reporter on the track to talk to the drivers standing around.
I went elsewhere after that and didn't return.
 
I was mildly annoyed when House was preempted for this Nascar nonsense. Sure, House isn't as good these days, but it's still better than watching cars with stickers making left turns for hours on end.
 
firepoint525 said:
Even that would have been better than watching the race crews pouring Tide detergent on the spill (during the race delay) to soak it up!
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A technical correction -

Tide (or any similar detergent) actually breaks up oil in the same way it dissolves hamburger grease from your favorite BBQ apron. Car leaving oil spots on your concrete driveway? Grab some Tide. It will leave your driveway smelling nice too! ;D

To "soak oil up" the track people would have used cat litter or a generic product we used to call "speedy dry" which is made from crushed sea shells (and has several brand names).

I think I remember the announcers saying that most of what ran down the track was diesel fuel from the safety truck's ruptured tank and jet fuel (kerosene) from the blow dryer tank.
 
firepoint525 said:
Apparently, the local FOX affiliates' reporters and anchors got the evening off from reporting the news.  I certainly took the evening off from watching them!
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WTXF in philly did a newscast after the race, but it was 30 minutes long I think. That was a mistake, during a newscast at a time that no-one was watching. FOX 29 is so screwed up, overall, with the picture formats of its standard definition programming (having four sides of black surrounding the screen) and its lower rated newscasts. I hardly watch the station anymore. I use to for many years.
 
Plate racing is by itself unworthy and boring but the worst part is it causes everyone to bunch up in a pack and inevitably leads to multi-car incidents. Not only does this deplete the field and take out drivers that fans want to follow but the race takes forever to run. Last night's race took six hours flag-to-flag.
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That's your opinion. There are others who enjoy 'plate racing' because the racing is much CLOSER, which is more EXCITING. Also, some fans enjoy watching crashes (multi-car incidents). Some fans are happy when drivers that they don't like are taken out of races.
 
landtuna said:
firepoint525 said:
Even that would have been better than watching the race crews pouring Tide detergent on the spill (during the race delay) to soak it up!
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A technical correction -
Tide (or any similar detergent) actually breaks up oil in the same way it dissolves hamburger grease from your favorite BBQ apron. Car leaving oil spots on your concrete driveway? Grab some Tide. It will leave your driveway smelling nice too! ;D
To "soak oil up" the track people would have used cat litter or a generic product we used to call "speedy dry" which is made from crushed sea shells (and has several brand names).
I think I remember the announcers saying that most of what ran down the track was diesel fuel from the safety truck's ruptured tank and jet fuel (kerosene) from the blow dryer tank.
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But did you sit there and watch FOX during this two-hour delay? My guess is that you did not. I don't give a rip what they used. I changed channels (hey, I was expecting the 9:00 p.m. local news!), and saw the Tide footage the next day.
 
Julius May said:
firepoint525 said:
Apparently, the local FOX affiliates' reporters and anchors got the evening off from reporting the news. I certainly took the evening off from watching them!
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WTXF in philly did a newscast after the race, but it was 30 minutes long I think. That was a mistake, during a newscast at a time that no-one was watching. FOX 29 is so screwed up, overall, with the picture formats of its standard definition programming (having four sides of black surrounding the screen) and its lower rated newscasts. I hardly watch the station anymore. I use to for many years.
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How long is their newscast on a normal night? I'm with you on this one; they should have just thrown in the towel and called it a night.

During past World Series (and/or baseball playoffs leading up to them), our FOX affiliate has moved their 9:00 p.m. news over to one of their sister stations. They probably didn't have enough of a "heads up" to do that this time.
 
firepoint525 said:
landtuna said:
firepoint525 said:
Even that would have been better than watching the race crews pouring Tide detergent on the spill (during the race delay) to soak it up!
Click to expand...
A technical correction -
Tide (or any similar detergent) actually breaks up oil in the same way it dissolves hamburger grease from your favorite BBQ apron. Car leaving oil spots on your concrete driveway? Grab some Tide. It will leave your driveway smelling nice too! ;D
To "soak oil up" the track people would have used cat litter or a generic product we used to call "speedy dry" which is made from crushed sea shells (and has several brand names).
I think I remember the announcers saying that most of what ran down the track was diesel fuel from the safety truck's ruptured tank and jet fuel (kerosene) from the blow dryer tank.
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But did you sit there and watch FOX during this two-hour delay? My guess is that you did not. I don't give a rip what they used. I changed channels (hey, I was expecting the 9:00 p.m. local news!), and saw the Tide footage the next day.
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Since this forum isn't specific to cars or NASCAR I posted simply to clarify what they were using.

FYI, I did watch the entire race, including the safety truck incident but as is my normal process I was doing other things on the computer while the TV played up in the corner. NASCAR isn't, by itself, interesting enough to keep me glued to the screen.
 
I would have liked to see what aired after the race Monday night on WNYW, but I had just about checked out at that point (race ended just after 1 AM local time)... I'm guessing WNYW might have pre-recorded the news that night for airing whenever the race coverage was finished. They once did that the night of a baseball playoff game (from Phoenix, if I recall correctly) that ended at around 2 AM ET.
 
If they had done that here in Nashville, they likely would have been competing with our NBC affiliate, who at least used to, re-air their 10:00 p.m. news at about 1:30 or 2:00 in the morning. Maybe with the overnight programming that NBC offers now, they no longer feel a need to do that.

But I'm still thinking that FOX affiliates (particularly in the eastern and central time zones) should have just thrown in the towel on doing a newscast on Monday night (can't say "Monday evening" because it was too late by then!), unless they had a subchannel to which they could have moved it. Long story short, if FOX 17 isn't on with news at 9:00, I'm switching to the rebroadcast of channel 5's 6:00 newscast on their subchannel.
 
I know my employer (Houston's Fox O&O) threw in the towel and dumped the newscast altogether. I was somewhat surprised the network didn't allow the stations to air at least a portion of their newscast during the delay, at least 30-mins. I think there would have been plenty of time to alert the stations on either end that the network was going back to the race.
 
Tim-In-Houston said:
I know my employer (Houston's Fox O&O) threw in the towel and dumped the newscast altogether. I was somewhat surprised the network didn't allow the stations to air at least a portion of their newscast during the delay, at least 30-mins. I think there would have been plenty of time to alert the stations on either end that the network was going back to the race.
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We'll soon see the day when Fox26 begins their morning news at midnight anyway ;D
 
firepoint525 said:
How long is their newscast on a normal night?  I'm with you on this one; they should have just thrown in the towel and called it a night. 

During past World Series (and/or baseball playoffs leading up to them), our FOX affiliate has moved their 9:00 p.m. news over to one of their sister stations.  They probably didn't have enough of a "heads up" to do that this time.
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60 minutes for the 10 PM news. Maybe the news director Steve Schwaid was insistent on having news on, following the race.
 
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