[mythtv-users] Football and see schedule adjustments

[jrh]

> On Oct 4, 2015, at 2:18 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
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They could move them to the .2 channels (which sometimes happens for local sports).