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And They're Off! Football Once Again Delays CBS' New Sunday Primetime
Yes, there's nothing like having a TV series debut at 9:51 PM on a Sunday night to draw a loyal audience. It should not surprise anyone that now that the new season is finally underway, CBS' first first run Sunday in months was subject to an almost half hour delay, thanks to a football over run.
Yes, I'm well aware the NFL garners far more viewers than any single CBS show possibly could. But for the next five months, if you DVR anything off of The Eye Network on the last day of the weekend, you'll have to leave at least an extra 30-60 minutes of time in order to see the end of the show you might want to watch.
I'm not sure what the Canadian affiliates who carry the delayed shows did. But if they started their versions on time, they lost the simulcast advantage.
For non-NFL fans, it's one of the most annoying issues people like me face, as we try to keep up with the musical chairs of "what insane time does it start this week?"
I can't wait until February and the post Super Bowl time of year.
Until then, what a way to run a network schedule every week! Sometimes I wonder why they bother. Just move the game into primetime and be done with it.
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There is also the factor that TSN cuts coverage of Nascar to switch to football already in progress like what happened yesterday.
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maybo wrote:
Oh, settle down, RA! 🤣
I figured that would be the reaction! And you're probably not wrong. It's just that this is such an irritant every single year and it goes on for months and months. Plus it wastes a lot of disk space!
If a single NFL game ever ended on time, even once, I'd have to call Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Although I doubt even old Robert would believe it!
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I could care less about the nfl.
The teems closest to the border never even make it to superbowl, and the superbowl has become a battle between far-left and far-right with the sillies on the far-right making thereown halftime show.
I'm not a big fan of bad bunny, and I don't speak spannish, but the music was good and way better than the rappers and other halftime shows.
i Also cant beleev how much more popular the nfl is here and how few people watch the better legue, the cfl.
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All this US football on Canadian TV. Does anyone even watch it?
After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.
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Yes, it's a huge draw or else they wouldn't show so much of it. (Which I wish they wouldn't!)
But there's no doubting its popularity. Consider: it's new, its live, and no one knows how it will end. Plus it brings in big ad dollars, which over-the-air TV stations in particular really need these days as audiences for conventional television shrink.
So to my chagrin, there will probably only be more of it for those stations lucky enough to get the rights.
It's even worse on the radio. Turn on the Fan 590 or TSN 1050 when they've gone to their U.S. programming and I can guarantee you 99% of the time, they'll be talking football, either NFL or college. Even if there's baseball playoffs, or a new NBA season going on. And forget about anything regarding the NHL. It's mostly wall to wall football.
I may not like it. But it's a fact of broadcasting life these days.
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NFL football has a global following. It’s also big in Mexico and in many other countries. Not as much as what we call soccer, but it’s still up there.
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I just DVR the Seattle stations.
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I'm not sure how the various Canadian streaming platforms handle it, but I use YouTube TV on this side of the border and never have to think about overruns.
If I tell it to DVR Tracker, it records Tracker whenever it starts. I'm assuming it's either someone human at YouTube TV tracking the overruns on the networks, or they're getting timing data getting straight to them.
Either way, it hasn't been anything I've needed to think about for the last few years - it just works.
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I'm not sure how the various Canadian streaming platforms handle it, but I use YouTube TV on this side of the border and never have to think about overruns.
If I tell it to DVR Tracker, it records Tracker whenever it starts. I'm assuming it's either someone human at YouTube TV tracking the overruns on the networks, or they're getting timing data getting straight to them.
Either way, it hasn't been anything I've needed to think about for the last few years - it just works.
Sounds great. But I'm not sure if we can get YouTube TV on this side of the border, given simsub rules and all that. Does anyone know?
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I'm not sure how the various Canadian streaming platforms handle it, but I use YouTube TV on this side of the border and never have to think about overruns.
If I tell it to DVR Tracker, it records Tracker whenever it starts. I'm assuming it's either someone human at YouTube TV tracking the overruns on the networks, or they're getting timing data getting straight to them.
Either way, it hasn't been anything I've needed to think about for the last few years - it just works.Sounds great. But I'm not sure if we can get YouTube TV on this side of the border, given simsub rules and all that. Does anyone know?
It's US-only, unfortunately, and I can't even use my subscription when I'm in Canada.
But I'd be surprised if Rogers/Bell/etc don't offer something similar for their streaming DVR services.