The real reason they changed the clock rule.

[Brains]

There's a reason I very rarely watch a game live. I skip all of them. You knew the commercials were going to increase. Ever since a DVR was invented, I've cut commercials out if my life. Of you complain about them, that's on you.

If I don't have my dawg (Miami, obviously) in the fight, I can barely watch. I try to watch the next Miami opponent during their game that immediately proceeds our matchup. Even that has gotten to the point where I rarely watch for more than a quarter and a half.

College football is circling the drain. The product gets worse every year.

 

[DTP]

That dude ain’t getting playing anymore and besides that there’s 31 other teams that had no shot.

 

[Tad Footeball]

More power to ya but I could never intentionally watch a live game late. I have enough angst with all the differences of only seconds in HD vs standard and between all the streaming services and cable. It already makes any text you get during a game a potential massive spoiler.

 

[Brains]

The problem for us the viewers is that only 2 types of television are watched live by anyone; sports and news. Everything else is taped (DVR) or streamed. So all the advertising is now in sports and news. No more 1/2 hour sitcoms or Law & Order for advertising dollars. So now those 2 types of television are completely run by networks/advertisers and they have become increasingly difficult to watch. Sports because the games became too long, and news because each network caters to its advertisers with its news content.

Going back to @aelmiami’s point, money is the root of evil, and maybe some good as well.

There are way easier solutions, like turning halftime into all commercials, shirt sponsorship, and picture-in-picture ads. But they refuse to do that for some reason in either CFB or NFL.

 

[Brains]

Somebody has to pay the bills. Its the TV money. So that means more commercials.

There are tons of other ways to pay the bills besides "more commercials."

 

[DTP]

This all falls back on the networks who overpaid for TV rights just assuming they could charge whatever they wanted for ad time. It didn’t work out that way so now they need to sell more ads to make up the difference.

 

[gogeta4]

You mean to tell me you guys dont want to see more commercials from the Tac Shaver or the Copper Neck Gaiter on the Acc Network?.

I swear 4 good i believe pretty soon the acc network may literally have some commercial ad on there of a dude selling c*ke thats how desperate they seem to be for commercial ad dollars.

 

[FtLaudCaneFan]

Going to a game that's on the ACC Network is the absolute worst. It feels like you're just sitting around waiting to watch some occasional live football highlights.

I absolutely hate losing 1/9 th of my football picture to the ridiculous crawl at the screen bottom. I notice ESPN is now doing it. I want my full screen back!!!!

 

[DTP]

I swear 4 good i believe pretty soon the acc network may literally have some commercial ad on there of a dude selling c*ke thats how desperate they seem to be for commercial ad dollars.

What channel is airing these ads again?

 

[Lupusg]

Big 10 and SEC signed huge deals. Fox And espn didn’t sign those contracts to lose money. These two conferences probably has more to do with this.

 

[Colombie]

I believe that feature is only for Primetime Anytime recordings.

I can hop/ skip commercials in quick fashion no matter what channels I record.
Yes, Primetime Anytime recordings hop over the commercials quicker with just one click of the button instead of four or five clicks but that is not much of an issue to me.

 

[mossmadness]

In a world where you perhaps are worried about huge competitive differences and a few teams dominating so much year after year due to stacking recruiting classes, creating a smaller sample size of plays that will facilitate upsets, kinda makes sense.

But what’s the point of upsets it to get them you need a sh*ttier viewing product?

 

[HurricanesR1]

I can hop/ skip commercials in quick fashion no matter what channels I record.
Yes, Primetime Anytime recordings hop over the commercials quicker with just one click of the button instead of four or five clicks but that is not much of an issue to me.

I do the same

 

[Home Slice]

So far, the average game is just as long. Just there’s more commercials and less actual football. These TV networks wrote checks for broadcast rights they couldn’t cash so they had to find a way to cram more advertisements into their 3.5 hour window.

I know a lot of folks are going to the game this weekend. Count how many times the official wearing red comes out onto the field. That’s when the broadcast is on commercial break.

It sucks!

 

[The canesman]

I watch as much commercial free tv as possible. Rather record and skip the bull****. As for live sports commercials ruin the game. It’s good ole American capitalism.

 

[AgOnceinJax]

Going back to @aelmiami’s point, money is the root of evil, and maybe some good as well.

Actually, the quote is: "THE LOVE of money is the root of all evil". Money itself is not good or bad, its neutral. However what greedy men do with and for money is something else.

 

[AtlAtty]

There are way easier solutions, like turning halftime into all commercials, shirt sponsorship, and picture-in-picture ads. But they refuse to do that for some reason in either CFB or NFL.

If everyone knew halftime was all commercial, no one would watch halftime. The only way for advertisers to have their ads seen is to work them into the context of the game. If I was an advertiser I want my ad airing at the most important time of a game. That is often hard to predict because games are unpredictable. Look, I hate it as well, but so long as networks make their money off ad revenues, this will continue.

 

[Brains]

If everyone knew halftime was all commercial, no one would watch halftime. The only way for advertisers to have their ads seen is to work them into the context of the game. If I was an advertiser I want my ad airing at the most important time of a game. That is often hard to predict because games are unpredictable. Look, I hate it as well, but so long as networks make their money off ad revenues, this will continue.

I put additional revenue streams in there as well. They are just not budging on doing it this way. When viewership continues to collapse (as it will), they will be forced to change.

Emulating baseball is a surefire way to continue to circle the drain.

 

[ssvir]

So far, the average game is just as long. Just there’s more commercials and less actual football. These TV networks wrote checks for broadcast rights they couldn’t cash so they had to find a way to cram more advertisements into their 3.5 hour window.

I know a lot of folks are going to the game this weekend. Count how many times the official wearing red comes out onto the field. That’s when the broadcast is on commercial break.

I hate that red official.

 

[AtlAtty]

I put additional revenue streams in there as well. They are just not budging on doing it this way. When viewership continues to collapse (as it will), they will be forced to change.

Emulating baseball is a surefire way to continue to circle the drain.

You are correct. This is dinosaur advertising. Frankly I’m shocked that advertisers still buy ad time on Tv at all, whether sports, news or anything else.
it feels like they are stuck in 1985 and looking for the only safe harbor to air commercials.