(ignore the old TV)

an ESPN+ exclusive fight has literally nothing to do with the football

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    I actually struggled to identify what part of the screen was an ad, and I’m less able to be outraged about a TV channel displaying what content they will be broadcasting later than ads for unrelated products. Similar to how I’m okay with or even want to see movie previews before a movie, but I better not see a commercial for insurance or consumer electronics.

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    7 hours ago

    Have you watched a game of Association Football (or real football) lately? They digitally alter the ads on physical LED banners for different broadcast regions.

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    This is a weird take. That ticker telling you about scores and schedules for a whole bunch of different sports has been on ESPN forever.

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      While I understand their point, it’s like going to the channel with the stock market banner on the bottom and complaining it is taking up part of the screen, where I would almost say the other 90% of the screen is the ads.

      So many hours spent watching that as a child. It was either that channel or Bob Barker when I was on summer break

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    who still watches broadcast TV?

    ah sports… adults investing billions into children’s games. not surprised.

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        Nah, that is to keep potential clients interested.

        They keep adding rules to the sport to make it more “TV viewing friendly”, meaning more breaks to show ads. I mean, the superbowl is just ads with sport attached.

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          Look at the sports with systemic ad presence vs sports where it’s all “grass roots.” (The grass roots ones are mostly gone.)

          Most top sports are incredibly expensive to keep running and the ones that become infested with ads are the ones that stick around for us to enjoy. If you follow less popular sports you’ll consider yourself lucky to bring in ads and sponsors.

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          I thought sports was about wealthy, unscrupulous white men fighting each other over the right to have the most-talented black men go to work in their fields.

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    I can’t ignore the old TV.

    I’m honestly impressed there are still functional, floor-model rear-projection TVs.

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      It’s too heavy to ever get replaced. It’ll still be there after the house is long gone.

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      I clean out houses for a living, you’d be very shocked how many functional rear projection and CRTs are in use and get thrown out “because old”.

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    2 days ago

    I hate to be the guy to tell you, man. But, they’ve been doing this shit for like, 30 years man.

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    I’ve completely given up on watching broadcast TV. Recently they made a change in Germany, where you have to pay extra for cable TV. Which I won’t do so now I don’t have cable any more. I haven’t even noticed the difference.

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    Honestly I would take the little banner if it meant there was not comerical breaks. The fact that they do this on top of all the ads they also play at breaks is so over the top. I have been getting into European football and I find it so refreshing that they play 45 mins half straight through. It’s way faster games and there is not the disruption of comericals. In those games they have the banner, but I don’t mind it as much