NBC Sunday pregame show starts at 6pm cst and the game starts at 7:40pm cst I think they should start the games at 6:45pm or 7pm cst. Some games are over at 11pm to 11:20pm cst a lot of people have to work the next day and people can not stay up that late to watch the games and then the news can start earlier. Another thing I do not like is these NBC Sunday night games seem to have to most comercials of any pro football games.
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NBC Sunday Night Football Games Should Start Earlier
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Frank DeFord had an interesting commentary on NPR's Morning Edition this week about the starting times of World Series games. Apparently, the idea is to let people in the West (less than a quarter of the population) see the start of the game. As a result, the three out of four people in the rest of the country (more than half in the Eastern time zone) either have to stay up late to see the end of the game and go to work sleep deprived or bail out before the game is over. DeFord asked the reasonable question: If forced to choose, would you rather see the beginning of a game but not the end, or the end but not the beginning?
For football games on Sundays or Saturdays (or baseball games), people not being home from work when the game starts is not an issue. But making people stay up late on Sundays to see how game ends still is an issue.
Another issue for Sunday night football is apparently the league or NBC have made some kind of deal to make sure the NBC game does not start before the late afternoon national game on either CBS or Fox ends. In this context, apparently somebody realizes that people would rather see the end of one game than the beginning of another (and the commercials shown early in the NBC game). And the ending time for games keeps getting later and later, as football games keep getting longer. And the start of late afternoon games keeps creeping back in time, too.
For football games on Sundays or Saturdays (or baseball games), people not being home from work when the game starts is not an issue. But making people stay up late on Sundays to see how game ends still is an issue.
Another issue for Sunday night football is apparently the league or NBC have made some kind of deal to make sure the NBC game does not start before the late afternoon national game on either CBS or Fox ends. In this context, apparently somebody realizes that people would rather see the end of one game than the beginning of another (and the commercials shown early in the NBC game). And the ending time for games keeps getting later and later, as football games keep getting longer. And the start of late afternoon games keeps creeping back in time, too.
Wasn't the same complaint used about ABC Monday Night Football? If I recall correctly, when they temporarily moved it from 9pm to 8pm EST for a while in the 80s, ratings didn't budge. Every viewer they gained back east was lost in the West. And that was when the PTZ (and especially the MTZ) had fewer people.
It might work, but it won't work on some Sunday's because NBC will be showing the last few cup races on nbc and (like the fall Texas race) it'll cause a BIG! Mess. As long as those NASCAR races are ion NBC, not happening.
To me the Sunday night game running late isn't as bad as the Monday or Thursday night games running late.
It's on Sunday night, so nobody's really racing to get home to watch it; it's perfect at the time it is and there's no way the NFL wants to get into a disaster situation where a CBS or Fox afternoon game runs into the SNF timeslot; I remember the 49ers-Rams tie on Fox a couple years back got to 8:25pm, just before starting lineups on NBC, and how big a relief it was to them that the NFL hasn't carried out college tie rules yet, where a winner is declared no matter what.
As for the NASCAR/NBC situation next year, after September most of the NASCAR schedule moves to NBCSN besides a few highlight races in the afternoon, so issues between them and SNF should be of the usual cuts to Football Night which won't annoy many.
As for the NASCAR/NBC situation next year, after September most of the NASCAR schedule moves to NBCSN besides a few highlight races in the afternoon, so issues between them and SNF should be of the usual cuts to Football Night which won't annoy many.
Also, I think most NASCAR races start at 2 PM ET at the latest during this part of the season, and are usually given four-hour time blocks, so they'd need to run really long to cut into FNIA at 7.
Yes most of the chase races in September and October are going to be on NBCSN so that won't have too much of an impact on Football Night in America, now in early to mid November all but the Thanksgiving week that's where you might want to run Football night in America on NBCSN and switch it to NBC at 7pm ET because the last 3 sprint cup races on the schedule (Texas, Phoenix, and Homestead-Miami) and I would suspect that those 3 races on NBC will start at 2pm ET, so it might end in time for FNIA to start it might not, there might be some cases where they can squeeze in driver interviews then toss it to FNIA and there might not be any driver interviews. Early to mid November will be very interesting for NBC next year.
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