[mythtv-users] Football and see schedule adjustments

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Dean Collins <Dean at cognation.net> wrote:
> Well its hardly CBS’s fault that the NFL runs long.

Well, that is clearly up for debate.  There are those that
believe all broadcasters should add in a few hours of
padding after every live game that is not time limited
and fill it with "useless commentary" (is that redundant?).
However, that goes against the commercial realities that
no company would pay for commercials on the "useless
commentary" shows (and the broadcasters are not in
this to intentionally lose money).

There are also some that believe that if 60 minutes is
scheduled to start at 7pm, it should start then.  And
that goes against the contracts that CBS has signed
with the NFL (after the Heidi game fiasco the NFL
changed future broadcast contracts to require that
the broadcasters show the games until the end,
special circumstances excepted of course).

AFAICT, the only way this works is if all sports programs
move to PPV channels.  Which sort of happens now, and
may expand with the realities of the prices that the sports
times want to be paid.