[mythtv-users] Football and see schedule adjustments

[Daryl McDonald]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 4:15 PM, jrh <jharbestonus at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > 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.
> > _______________________________________________
>
> They could move them to the .2 channels (which sometimes happens for local
> sports).
>

If so, how does one recording the sport follow the move?

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