Saturday, July 07, 2007

Turner Creates Ad Spots for Nascar Telecast


Turner Sports and TNT will make a bit of television history this Saturday night (July 7) when the network introduces its Wide Open Coverage concept during its telecast of Nascar's Pepsi 400 that will include only limited onscreen commercials created exclusively for 9 advertisers by Turner.

Turner has experimented on a few ocassions with the no commercial break concept for live sports telecasts, but actually working with its advertisers and their agencies to create all of the commercial spots for each of the advertisers is something never done before.

The sponsors of the telecast will include Autozone, DirecTV, Ford, Goodyear, Miller Brewing Co., Pepsi, Principal Financial, Sprint, Subway and Toyota.

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT MEDIAWEEK.COM

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