Monday Night Daytona 500 Fires Up Fox's Ratings

[landtuna]

According to a friend of mine here in Hartford FOX 61 aired it's entire 10PM & 11PM News following the race. The 11PM news ended just before 3AM.

Do you know if it was live or taped?  I'm guessing the station would have taped it for broadcast when the race ended.  Would have been interesting to know if any of the late-late-late news contained the results of the race.

[firepoint525]

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.

I believe Houston (like Nashville) is on central time.  So with that 1:00 a.m. finish time posted earlier (I'm guessing that that was eastern time), it would have been midnight by the time the race finished on central time.  In a situation like this, it seems that if a station still wanted to have a newscast, but didn't have either a sister station or at least a substation, they could have put their entire newscast online.   

[firepoint525]

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.

60 minutes for the 10 PM news. Maybe the news director Steve Schwaid was insistent on having news on, following the race.

We typically have an hour and a half of late local news on Fox 17, from 9:00 to 10:30, which to me seems excessive, but I'm guessing that they get to "have their cake and eat it, too," airing the first late evening newscast, and then going on to compete against all the others.

[DToTheJ]

I believe Houston (like Nashville) is on central time...  In a situation like this, it seems that if a station still wanted to have a newscast, but didn't have either a sister station or at least a substation, they could have put their entire newscast online.   

Affirmative... Also, airing the newscast on a subchannel is another option... WNYW's 5-2 subchannel is actually airing the same programming as 5-1... I should have thought to check during the 10 PM hour during the race if the news ran on 5-2...