The song was also used by ABC in the 2010 NBA Finals when the presentation of the game reached the end of the third quarter and was phased out into a commercial break.

The song was featured in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the in-game classic rock station K-DST.

[13] It closed Petty and the Heartbreakers' performance at the February 2008 Super Bowl XLII Halftime Show,[14] encoda'ed with a long Mike Campbell guitar solo.

[14] The next morning, following the Patriots loss to the Giants, which ended their chance at perfection, the song was used during Super Bowl highlights on ESPN.

In 2017 after Petty's death, NBC used the song for the promo for its telecast of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.