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#1 | NBC Indianapolis 500 - 3 hours of adverts with occasional racing? datum

Sun May 28, 2023 9:14 pm (Last edited: Sun May 28, 2023 9:21 pm)

America - How do you cope with this?
Advert, advert, advert, race, advert, advert,race bit, advert.
Is all your tv sport like this?
Looking forward to Le Mans 24hr and after Nurburgring 24HR without adverts I think you are being robbed of a full event.

Huge accident now, just hope the wheel hasn't hit anyone in the crowd.
Waiting for the replay update, fingers crossed for no injuries.

Loose wheel looks terrible on the one replay going into the crowd, now red flag!

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#2 | RE: NBC Indianapolis 500 - 3 hours of adverts with occasional racing? datum

Sun May 28, 2023 9:31 pm

Latest update - Loose wheel landed on a car in the car park and No Injuries, great outcome.

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#3 | RE: NBC Indianapolis 500 - 3 hours of adverts with occasional racing? datum

Sun May 28, 2023 9:52 pm

Yes, to your original question. If it's on a standard broadcast channel, no matter the sport, it's almost always loaded with commercials.

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#4 | RE: NBC Indianapolis 500 - 3 hours of adverts with occasional racing? datum

Sun May 28, 2023 10:19 pm (Last edited: Sun May 28, 2023 10:20 pm)

Zitat von duccrazydave im Beitrag #3
Yes, to your original question. If it's on a standard broadcast channel, no matter the sport, it's almost always loaded with commercials.

But, in theory, it's free.........

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#5 | RE: NBC Indianapolis 500 - 3 hours of adverts with occasional racing? datum

Mon May 29, 2023 12:12 am

Zitat von Dave H im Beitrag #1
America - How do you cope with this?
Advert, advert, advert, race, advert, advert,race bit, advert.

1. VCR/DVR and watch later when you can fast forward through the ads.
2. Just stop watching TV. They call it the �idiot box� for a reason.
3. You should see how bad the news coverage is.

I�m a Notary Public. RESPECT MY AUTHORITY!

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#6 | RE: NBC Indianapolis 500 - 3 hours of adverts with occasional racing? datum

Mon May 29, 2023 12:59 am

Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #5

1. VCR/DVR and watch later when you can fast forward through the ads.
2. Just stop watching TV. They call it the �idiot box� for a reason.
3. You should see how bad the news coverage is.

Same here.
I don't watch much TV anymore. I record almost everything so I can skip commercials.
I thought Netflix would be a good thing but I ran out of shows that interest me a year ago.
Stopped watching news several years ago.

Lee
2022 R1250RS White Sport
Iowa, USA

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#7 | RE: NBC Indianapolis 500 - 3 hours of adverts with occasional racing? datum

Mon May 29, 2023 5:24 am (Last edited: Mon May 29, 2023 5:26 am)

Boring race anyway, even if they didn't have ads. Same with NASCAR. Round and round we go, where we stop nobody knows.

Isle of Man...now THAT is a race worth watching.

And..."news"? They stopped broadcasting real news decades ago. It's all "influencing" now.

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#8 | RE: NBC Indianapolis 500 - 3 hours of adverts with occasional racing? datum

Mon May 29, 2023 11:53 am

Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #5
Zitat von Dave H im Beitrag #1
America - How do you cope with this?
Advert, advert, advert, race, advert, advert,race bit, advert.

1. VCR/DVR and watch later when you can fast forward through the ads.
2. Just stop watching TV. They call it the �idiot box� for a reason.
3. You should see how bad the news coverage is.

When I used to have sky sports and American football, that�s how I�d watch those games. Otherwise it�s 3hrs for about 15 minutes of action.

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#9 | RE: NBC Indianapolis 500 - 3 hours of adverts with occasional racing? datum

Mon May 29, 2023 12:35 pm (Last edited: Mon May 29, 2023 12:35 pm)

Thread moved to the Lounge.

I tend to listen to the radio for many hours a day whilst doing other stuff. Fortunately, we have the BBC so can watch or listen to a myriad of content without third party adverts, although they do promote their own content to a mildly annoying level. The current affairs coverage in Radio 4 is exemplary. Not just the news programmes but factual programmes like More or Less that fact check a lot of claims in the headlines or From Our Own Correspondent where journalists from far flung places give a local perspective to things like the recent election in Turkey that will inevitably affect all of us over the next 5 years.

I quite like listening to sport on the radio. Cricket especially is so much better on the radio as the gaps are filled with banter which the BBC has hoed over decades. Watch it on Sky TV and the gaps are adverts.

Of course, when I say radio, I mean an app on my phone.

I find it amusing that the BBC gets criticism from the right for being part of the woke liberati and as much bellyaching from the left saying they give too much air time to the populist right. I guess they might be somewhere near to being balanced as they have the audacity to fact check everyone equally.

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#10 | RE: NBC Indianapolis 500 - 3 hours of adverts with occasional racing? datum

Mon May 29, 2023 2:35 pm

As an old NASCAR commentator said- "Cautions breed cautions". I suppose you could add- "Red flags breed red flags". Mostly boring except for the last dozen or so laps- frantic desperation.
I recorded the race. I don't watch Indycar except for the 500. It amazes me that a full month of prep and someone couldn't get going at the start. I remember a race years ago where probably 3 cars dropped out on the parade laps!

Frank

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#11 | RE: NBC Indianapolis 500 - 3 hours of adverts with occasional racing? datum

Mon May 29, 2023 3:15 pm

Zitat von Duckbubbles im Beitrag #10
As an old NASCAR commentator said- "Cautions breed cautions". I suppose you could add- "Red flags breed red flags". Mostly boring except for the last dozen or so laps- frantic desperation.
I recorded the race. I don't watch Indycar except for the 500. It amazes me that a full month of prep and someone couldn't get going at the start. I remember a race years ago where probably 3 cars dropped out on the parade laps!

Frank

First of all, I'm not a race fan. But, I do miss ABC's "Wide World of Sports", the single non-Base/Foot/Basketball sports broadcast on US TV in the 60s and 70s. The Indy 500 always featured Chris Economaki. Who he was, I don't know, but the name sounded good. Then, for the rare European race, you had Jackie Stewart with the accent and the theme music from Casino Royale (original). None of the cars had anything to do with the Pintos and Vegas we were being offered from Detroit, but it showed a world beyond the one I knew.

Of course, some weeks, the main event was the Professional Bowlers Tour, usually from Akron Ohio...

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#12 | RE: NBC Indianapolis 500 - 3 hours of adverts with occasional racing? datum

Mon May 29, 2023 5:55 pm (Last edited: Mon May 29, 2023 6:01 pm)

Wide World of Sports...great show...Jim McKay.

I have to amend my statement about Indy 500 being "boring". Back in earlier times (1970's), we used to watch because you could count on something wild happening, like a spectacular crash. Then Swede Savage's horrific crash put an end to the anticipation of crashes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzYUZFQr-K4

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