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[DragoonKain]

If you aren't an NFL fan, you won't care about this, but for NFL fans, this channel was basically a gift from the heavens. It's a show that switches back and forth between every game on every Sunday with no commercials, so you don't miss any touchdown or any action. Well, it was a channel owned by NFL Network, which recently was purchased by Disney/ESPN, so naturally... for 2025 and onward there will be commercials!

Which essentially defeats the entire purpose of the channel. Because there are a ton of games going on at once, it at a very frantic pace needs to switch back and forth between games at rapid speed. Anyone who watches this channel knows if you even leave the room to take a piss, you could miss multiple big plays and such. Now they will be cutting to commercials throughout the broadcast.

It's been a long time since I've seen a collective group of fans of any one thing unanimously so outraged. NFL is king in America, NFL fans love this, and they are livid. We'll see if ESPN pulls a Cracker Barrel and caves, but as it stands right now, this once-great channel will now have commercials, and of course it's going to drastically affect it. I don't see how it couldn't. And it's a premium service that you pay extra for, so it feels extra dirty to add commercials to it.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

They must hate their audience. For the service RedZone provides, I'm sure most would rather take a price hike than intrusive ads.

Are they stopping the action to show ads? Or will they be splitscreen with the games still on screen?

 

[DragoonKain]

They must hate their audience. For the service RedZone provides, I'm sure most would rather take a price hike than intrusive ads.

Are they stopping the action to show ads? Or will they be splitscreen with the games still on screen?

Stopping the action. It was said that these won't be ad overlays, but actual full cuts to commercials.

 

[Hari Seldon]

They have an addicted audience that will put up with anything, so why not? It is not like people will stop watching or gambling.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Y'all don't want to see sports betting commercials every 7 minutes?

 

[12Goblins]

NFL and commercials, name a more iconic duo

 

[Hari Seldon]

The Mouse is on the war path.

 

[Avid Reading Horse]

Didn't care for RedZone, probably would have loved it were it around in my fantasy football heyday. I used to subscribe to Sunday Ticket, but with the way they shit out rights to random games to random ass streaming services I'm done with giving them another dime. Salaam my StreamEast Egyptian brothers, your sacrifice shall not be forgotten and the globalists will one day be defeated. Pretty sure I'll still be able to find a stream of uncertain legality on a weekly basis.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I don't know about Redzone, with direct tv there's commercials on every channel.

 

[AJUMP23]

I use to love redzone. Commercials are a terrible addition.

 

[reinking]

The Mouse is on the war path.

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[TDiddyLive]

Stopping the action. It was said that these won't be ad overlays, but actual full cuts to commercials.

"And during the break this AMAZING interception followed by 11 broken tackles leading to a 109 yard touchdown to win the division!!!! A play so spectacular it will be replayed for all time as the greatest play ever! People will be telling their grandkids where they were when they saw this live. Well, I will. You at home didn't see it live. So you can't say shit to anybody."

 

[12Goblins]

Y'all don't want to see sports betting commercials every 7 minutes?

Omg who let you out of ur cage? Are you making NFL thread?

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Omg who let you out of ur cage? Are you making NFL thread?

I can't, in good conscience, make the NFL thread. I can, in bad conscience, participate in the NFL thread but only because I'm from Buffalo and we have a top 3 team in the league. Should the season script drive Buffalo out of the top 3, I will avoid all NFL content.

You go make the thread, but make sure it's sponsored by FanDuel.

 

[natjjohn]

I don't think ESPN owns red zone yet to make these decisions.

Isn't going to be picture-in-picture style like racing/golf.

Still sucks but I think will be able to see what is happening.

I'm still going to be ponying up the money for it though! (Think most people still will; any drops would associate with the economic uncertainty in America aka republican president/legislative control=economic downturn. Been happening consistently for decades no reason to think not happening again.

 

[natjjohn]

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Personally I don't think this is a big deal at all.

1, they already have those ads on the screen that shrink the size of the actual game they are showing. I'm not naive enough to think commercials will replace the ads we already have, but it's not as if Redzone didn't have ads/commercials already.

2, NFL games are full of a fuck ton of commercials. There's no way this is remotely close to the amount of commercials the games have.

3, it's not like they can't just catch you up on what you missed during a commercial break. You already don't actually see every touchdown live because they are flipping through so many games.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

All the more reason to switch to piracy

 

[Unknown Soldier]

The Mouse is on the war path.

I think all the streams went down for like 1 hour tops and then they were back online

But let them think they "shut down" Streameast, we don't want them to find out about the 20 new mirrors that popped up instantly

 

[Lunarorbit]

Yeah fuck that. Youtube and basically every streaming service starts out completely fine until revenue starts to dry up and then they add this.

The greed of the nfl knows no bounds. 1 minute of ads will become 5 minutes until it's 30 minutes. 17 game season will become 18. More and more games go over seas. Places like Saudi Arabia will host an NFL game and 1000s will die make a stadium.

Its all bullshit

 

[AJUMP23]

That is what they say this year but as they see opportunity to grow revenue they will add more commercials, and then add games in a box while they run commercials and still claim you miss no action.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

This man pretends he never heard of boiling the frog

Every year they'll keep adding a few more minutes of commercials

In 5 years there will be 3 hours of commercials and 30 minutes of actual football just like regular games

 

[Unknown Soldier]