Posted on 06/11/2020 1:33:24 PM PDT by napscoordinator
Based on the overnight TV ratings for Wednesday's Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway, NASCAR's decision to prohibit the display of the Confederate flag at its events and properties did not negatively impact viewership despite pushback from some of its fans. Quite the contrary.
Wednesday night's race at Martinsville, which started just a couple hours after NASCAR released a statement on its banishment of the flag, delivered massive numbers relative to comparable past Cup Series races.
The overnight ratings were up 104 percent "over the comparable race last season," per Fox Sports executive vice president Michael Mulvihill — a rating of 1.14 compared to 0.56 for the 11th race of the season last year, an event at Dover International Speedway presented on the same channel (FS1).
The ratings for Wednesday night's race at Martinsville also were up 16 percent over the last weeknight race on FS1, the rain-delayed event at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 28. The Wednesday night race at Darlington on May 20, the first mid-week Cup Series event since 1984, drew a rating of 1.22 on FS1.
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Oh Please! The announcement was just before the first race in ages.
Fake news... Lots of communists tuned in to create a phoney meme...
The AMA Supercross is finishing off in UTAH, its a great fight with Tomac and Webb.
So far anyway, no political correct horsesh@t yet, other than the silly mask and distancing rules.
The BLM car will be given a 50 lap headstart.
They lost me when blacklivesmatter had a car in the race. (The anchors seemed to point it out.)
Good idea, and the driver, Bubba Wallace might even have won the race if the rest of the cars had flashing red and blue lights.
Oh. Please. There is no data out on this. It’s a 5 year old’s Level of a big lie
Who knew there was a whole army of soi boys, snowflakes and SJW’s just dying to watch NASCAR? Or maybe this is just more MSM fake news BS. Hmm, I wonder which one it could be.
LMAO x 10.
My guess is that many tuned in just to see the BLM car eat a wall. As for myself, the France Family killed NASCAR for me years ago. Not going back, either.
A little early to determine this isn’t it?
If it loses, it is because of racism.
When they start racing electric cars the young crowd will jump right in it. Each Prius can tow a skateboarder. Wearing a helmet and a facemask.
People are starved for anything sporty
Just wait until one of these fools ‘takes a knee”
Like Bubba Boi
BTW isn’t Bubba appropriating White Culture?
“Remembering the first XFL. 13 million viewers the first Saturday night game. 3 million the second.”
Yeh but to be fair that first game was before they outlawed choke holds. LOL
*there’s a WWE joke in there somewhere*
You mean it didn’t?
What a bunch of Bovine Excrement.
The race they are comparing it to was a Monday afternoon running of a rainout race. Of course no one watched.
First of all, most people don’t even know what a “real” Confederate Flag looks like. Take one of those to a Race and see what happens.
Secondly, how many so called Confederate (Battle) Flags are flown at a typical NASCAR Race? The way this is being blown up you would think there were Thousands.
So stupid on so many levels.
I don’t remember the Confederate flag ever being at a NASCAR race.
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