Superbowl blackout

yeah, that could be, although i was actually meaning that they sold, for example, enough for a four hour game, and it was playing out that the game was only going to last 3 1/2 hours.

 

I see.

If people are going to continue to watch the TV while there is a black out why wouldn't they be also watching the TV during the other hours that invariably are devoted to 'Super Sunday'. Would they not be showing adverts regardless?

I thought you generally workshopped a thought and dismissed it if it's doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
A planned power outage to show more commercials? Does not compute.
Seems a very convoluted premise this.

 

i don't know the stats, but i suspect that the viewership is much higher during the game itself than during the pre/postgame shows. i know i personally watched most of the game, and none of the pre/post stuff. especially after the game, i quickly changed the channel in order to avoid having to watch the bastard ravens celebrating; i suspect a lot of people whose team didn't win had no desire to watch the postgame celebrations.

besides, again this is pure speculation, but i would assume that ad space is sold separately for the game itself and for the rest of the gameday programming. i think a company that pays millions to air their commercial during the game damn well expects their commercial to air during the game.

no, i don't honestly believe that this was the cause of the blackout; i'm basically discussing theory here.

 

I don't know if the adverts were different during the blackout. Reserve commercials. If companies were willing to pay the same rate and were happy they managed to get their adverts on during the game (albeit during downtime) - so be it. Not really something worthy of a conspiracy, imho.

A bad theory. But fair enough.

 

my guess is that viewership wouldn't have dropped significantly during the blackout. a lot of people who watch the game don't really watch it for the game anyway. it's largely a social event where people get together and watch the game in groups; i doubt if most such groups switched over to honey boo boo or whatever during the blackout. and watching the superbowl specifically for the commercials is still a big thing too, and i don't see those people caring much about whether or not football was being played between the commercials.

plus, there wasn't a specific length of time given for the blackout, so people would stay on that channel so as not to miss the game starting back up.

 

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I think you said they didn't play any more adverts than they would have done anyway. I'm not sure how it works, so don't know if you have commercials like here - every 15-20 minutes or as I thought, every 10 minutes.
If nothing actually changed in the scheduling of the commercials - just there would be more people watching them, who may have enjoyed them more than the game - it seems a win win.

 

they didn't play ads at a greater rate than they would have anyway, but by extending the game and playing the ads at the same rate, there were more total ads played.

as far as spacing of the commercials, it's not really a set time period. during the game, it could easily go 15 minutes or more without an ad during a long drive, but for example when a team scores, they could have the scoring play, then a commercial break, then the extra point play, then a commercial break, then the kickoff, then a commercial break, then stay on for a while on the following drive. it probably averages out to every 10 minutes or so, maybe even slightly more often.

during the blackout, i think they took a commercial break probably every 5-10 minutes or so.

of course, it's also hard to say how many commercials are airing based on spacing of breaks, because sometimes they'll cut away from the game for a single ad, and other times they'll cut away and show commercials for 5 minutes straight.

 

So some years even with out an outage they could play more? It seems a rather commercialised enterprise this Superbowl malarkey

I can't really expand upon the conspiracy, tbh.

 

They definitely lost some viewers in the eastern time zone, where it was late and a lot of people had to be at work early Monday morning. The score was so lopsided that it looked like the game had already been decided, so it seemed like a good time to say 'screw it'.

The network could run the same commercials multiple times, but they didn't have extra new ones stored in case of a longer game. I noticed in the fourth quarter they ran a lot of promo spots for other CBS shows, probably because they ran out of paid commercials.

 

Interesting.

 

Lol I thought the conspiracy forums would be buzzing with all the people who supposedly could care less about the Super Bowl after the power outage.

First off, they showed the biggest comeback in Super Bowl History yesterday when the 49ers were coming back and it was 10 points, less then two touchdowns. Secondly, there have been some lop sided Super Bowl Scores. Lastly, in team sports and particularly in football, teams/coaches often make adjustments, players gather their composure and there are momentum shifts, this phenomenona happens from little league through the pros. When you're talking about the two best teams in the league, It's likely to be a close game.

 

Traditionally the super bowel is a one sided game. Most of them have been over at half time. It's more about the distraction of the game, then who wins.

The whole thing to me is a perfect example of what is wrong with this country. The most popular player on the winning team is a mentaly unstable murderer who cheats by using banned drugs to gain an unfair advantage. He gets caught using a banned substance and basically says God is on his side and if your not then your being tricked by the devil. He twists religion around to suite his own ends. Then you have the fact that a little over a decade ago he is involved in a murder but because he can make a tackle it is overlooked. This is the man that kids in little league will be told to look up to, it's pathetic. The sports media here has a serious man crush on him and always has. There is a serious problem with the football culture in America.

 

That's the crown jewel summary of American culture.

Someone should engrave that on a piece of platinum and affix it to the Washington Monument.

 

I'm beginning to believe that too pressedrat!

 

I wonder about that too.

 

^ Yah that is an interesting theory, especially since Metlife stadium is about 1,300 miles away from where the Superbowl was played.

 

Well, when I did an internet search for "where is the superbowl being played?" it mentioned that stadium. So I went with that. I do not follow football, so I was hoping that the internet knew more than me on the subject.

 

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