NBC Sports wants 67 seconds between rounds

Evolve. Hockey implemented tv time outs, Football does, every sport has. People complain there's not enough television coverage of boxing, then refuse to compromise to ensure tv exposure. Stay in the past and watch he sport die, or evolve and walk into the 21st century and hopefully let the sport thrive. Or maybe just wait until all the old timers die off, then boxing might be able to be mainstream. smfh

 

television shows have 16 commercials an hour, and that's not factoring the commercials before and after the show on the hour.

 

don't know why NBC is fixated on broadcasting their lousy fights Live.... not that anyone very spectacular is going to be shown, or they'd be PPV

How about running an non-live, edit version (for random swearing that will happen), lumping a few rounds together, and show a good gob of commercials inbetween, just like how it happens on every other ****ing TV show? Is this inconceivable?

 

atsch I've every one of their fights so far this year. I guess not all of us can be fans I guess of boxing

 

lol, i wouldnt expect you would go out of your way for pettyness...
only you would flip a statement to make it as a personal attack

i watch their lousy fights just as i watch other lousy fights on tv - and if you wanna take the "lousy" reference as literal, that's your lousy problem lol

 

Exactly. With no other sport-hell, with no other program- can they do that.

Wait, really? :huh

 

:tong

 

Not a bad idea. I also think a standing 20 count should be ordered in case someone gets hit with a fluke jab that knocks their senses out.

 

If NBC wants the seven seconds, they can just do an over-run into the next round. Usually fighters take a couple of seconds to engage anyway, so you're not necessarily depriving viewers that much by cutting back to the action and allowing the commercial to run its course.

 

hey Miller,













**** YOU.




Sincerely boxing fans

 

Can't they tape delay it slightly? Like a minute?

 

damn near every relevant sport in the US has TV timeouts boxing needs to get with the program its 7 damn sec

 

:deal

 

Give them 70 if they want....This is huge for the sport.

 

But allowing 7 seconds will make boxing more attractive to all advertisers thus all broadcasters.
Of course there is. Allowing you a small gap allows you to be more flexible with what kind of commercials you can air thus allow you to negotiate better. Commercials are often bought in packages/bulk. If Nike is looking to air 6 60sec spots in a specific time slot and your program can't do it, then you just lose revenue. Now you have to find another advertiser, often with lower revenue.

Every American sport has a commercial break built in to the sport - NFL, NBA, NHL, college hoops/football (MLB does not need it as the sport is slow as **** anyway). And all of these sports are thriving. They create dozens and dozens of multi millionaires, not just 3 or 4 athletes.
Because of the broadcast revenue even college athletes are now being considered to be paid!

That is an option but you are competing with the internet. So speed is a factor.

And a "live" event is what the sports is entitled to. Many of the b-rate sports are taped events - womens softball, pool, poker, world's strongest man.

Come on, if you guys want boxing to compete with the big sports you need to offer something better than "taped" broadcast. I mean they tape bowling for crying out loud.