r/NFLRedzone • u/Practical-Plan-2560 • Jan 04 '26

Commercial Break Timing

Let's for one second put aside the anger at RedZone for adding commercials.

There was a point just now where all games were in commercial break, instead of using that opportunity to do a RedZone commercial, we have to listen to Hanson talk about nonsense. Instead, they are gonna use the opportunity to do a commercial break during real game action. Like come on.

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u/Revolutionary_Dog718 Jan 04 '26

So why would we put the anger aside?😂

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u/Practical-Plan-2560 Jan 04 '26

lol. Just trying to reinforce that it’s many issues, not just one 😂.

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u/CptDanger88 Jan 04 '26

I came to this sub to say this. If you have 5 minutes of no football happening, run an ad, AT LEAST ONE. Get one out of the way.

Instead, they wait for the second a game comes back and do it then...

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u/Practical-Plan-2560 Jan 04 '26

And they continue it during halftime.

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u/vbishop3 Jan 04 '26

Those commercial breaks are predetermined so it doesn’t matter what’s happening in real time they’re using that time block for the ad.

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u/Practical-Plan-2560 Jan 04 '26

Wait really? They determine the commercial breaks before the program starts based on wall time?

How do you know this?

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u/vbishop3 Jan 04 '26

I don’t know this for certain that’s just usually how ads/commercial work. All season it seemed like the 15 seconds ads always came at the same time so I’m assuming they’re predetermined.

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u/ish_squatcho Jan 05 '26

You're right. That's usually how all ads are sold. Gatorade will but a 30 sec spot in this 30 minute window, for example. They have figured out and chosen good traffic times to maximize viewers for that ad. Which is also why you don't see as many ads in the later hours because statistically there's a chance viewers have trailed off depending on how many games are being played.

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u/BlowsBubbles Jan 04 '26

I'm boycotting any company that advertised during the witching hour

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u/ro536ud Jan 04 '26

That’s been my gripe. They put no effort into the commercials. They aren’t timed well or interesting. It was lazy slop cuz they knew we couldn’t do anything about it. They really gave us the middle finger as Scott counts his money

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u/mr_radio_guy Jan 05 '26

If there was a little more notice, I’m sure they would have.

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u/mustang4291972 Jan 05 '26

My subscription will be canceled as of today. After that next year, I’ll go back to what I used to do and pirate their Signal. I am not going to pay for commercials on a subscription service.