NFL Starting Times Shifted Giving Sunday 10 More Minutes Of Football
Double header NFL football games will no longer overlap. The NFL announced today that it will be shifting the 4:15 games back 10 minutes to make sure that fans don’t have to miss the beginning of one game, or the end of another.
Double header games, aired on CBS and Fox, started at 1 pm and 4:15 pm last season. The NFL found that 44 games had to be interrupted for another broadcast to start.
“In researching the kickoff time shift, the NFL analyzed games from the 2009-11 seasons and found that 44 games required part of the audience to be switched to a mandatory doubleheader game kickoff… With a 4:25 p.m. ET kickoff time, that number that would have been reduced by 66 percent to only 15 games.”
According to Deadspin, the NFL broadcast rules required Fox and CBS to switch to the opening kick-off of a game instead of broadcasting the end of the previous games. The networks would then be forced to give updates throughout the beginning of the later game.
By shifting the NFL starting times, the league hopes to give fans an uninterrupted viewing experience. The new schedule will affect about 40 games this season.
The NFL continues:
“Approximately 40 games over the full 2012 season will be impacted by the 10-minute kickoff time shift — with half of those moves coming in games played in Mountain or Pacific time zones with 1:25 p.m. or 2:25 p.m. local starts.”
Are you happy about the new NFL schedule? Are you excited for 10 more minutes of football?
Tags : nfl, nfl broadcast, nfl game times, nfl schedule, nfl starting times
Posted: June 29, 2012
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Jun 29, 2012
YESSSSSSSSS!
Jun 29, 2012
Woo-hoo! that's what I'm talkin' about! I hated having to miss the end of a crucial game, etc. Thank U 2 NFL!
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Jun 29, 2012
Oh hell yeah!
Jun 29, 2012
The bookies where losing money that's why they switched the time…………….if you couldn't bet on NFL football……….it would have run its course by now………the mafia controls what goes on in the NFL…….
Jun 29, 2012
Big deal…..such geniuses! just move the late games to 4 30pm! oh wait, that would make to much sense….
Jun 30, 2012
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Jun 30, 2012
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Jun 30, 2012
I like schedule, I missing football games! Let's go Jets!
Jun 30, 2012
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Jul 1, 2012
BULLCRAP!
Jul 1, 2012
I think it is okay, but I know people who get really upset when 60 minutes does not start on time.
Jul 1, 2012
OH THANK YOU NFL! Now we all can watch our own teams and Peyton Manning!
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Jul 1, 2012
How about 15 minutes of less commercials?
Jul 1, 2012
How about 15 minutes of less commercials?
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