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Starting this fall, the NFL‘s 4:15 PM Sunday games will start at 4:25 PM, the league announced today. The move is designed to reduce the number of instances when stations have to cut away from the final minutes of the earlier game in order to show the later one. Fox and CBS alternate carrying the Sunday afternoon games. While Fox has a cushion built into its primetime schedule, which includes a post-game show and comedy repeats from 7-8 PM, CBS’ lineup starts at 7 PM with 60 Minutes. The start of its primetime always gets delayed when the network carries the late NFL game – nine weeks out of the 17-week regular NFL season — leading to late starts for all of its Sunday programs. I hear NFL floated the idea of the kickoff time shift to CBS a few weeks ago.
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The network has been already looking into contingencies to adjust to the change that will push the start of its Sunday primetime lineup even further back. Last season, CBS’ primetime delay on nights with a late game was about 27 minutes on average. It will likely increase this coming season. One possible scenario that the network is looking at is changing its listings for Sunday night when following a game to have 60 Minutes start at 7:15 PM. That would reduce the wait for viewers of CBS’ Sunday series, which would start closer to their announced times. The kickoff time change may lead to an extra episode of CBS’ 10 PM series getting pre-empted. For the past couple of seasons, that was CSI: Miami, this fall it will be The Mentalist.
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Just make it to 3:30 PM CT as the starting time for the late games and then start 60 Minutes at/around 6:30 PM and then adjust the schedule where you can air a 30 minute show instead of an hour show and then the newscasts can start on time at 10 PM CT
That’s only half-time for the early games.
Maybe CBS could cut 60 Min if the game goes on too long and just do a time filler postgame show until Amazing Race comes on. There problem solved and Mentalist wont be crying for a new timeslot by december.
Multiple generations of viewers expect 60 MINUTES on Sundays at 7/6c. Not only is it a cultural institution, it’s a gigantic source of profit for CBS.
They should move it to 8 and do NFL filler from the end of the afternoon game until 8 and then let it run as a regular 8-9 show. Then move Amazing Race to 9 and Have the Mentalist or something else at 10.
Did you forget about “The Good Wife” scheduled at 9pm?
The difference between 7:00 and 7:15 is negligible and viewers will adjust like they did for 11:30 to 11:35 shift the Tonight Show Made years ago.
The big win for CBS they won’t want to admit is the later starter time means more NFL games will carryover to Prime time for them back east giving them stronger national ratings and a good demo for their prime time per night viewer avg.
AGREED. Last year, I saw two different AFC on CBS 4:15p games end at 7:05p only to be dragged out by the meaningless post-game banter from Nantz and Simms until 7:15p. Starting their Sunday prime line-up on time in the fall will never happen. They definitely covet the late runs from football. Their viewers do not.
Why not just get rid of the stupid rule that broadcast networks are required to cut away from the game that’s in progress once the 4:15/4:25 game starts?
Leave it up to the station. Pats/Giants duking it out in OT? Leave the game on and let viewers miss the first 5 minutes of the Bucs/Panthers in England. Seahawks down 42-10 to the 49ers? Cut away to the start of the afternoon game.
Google “The Heidi Game”.
they need to move the Good Wife off Sundays bc people like me are pissed off when it doesn’t get taped properly bc of the delay. THis will for sure help Revenge.
Why doesn’t the NFL make the games move faster?
They used to end at around 2.5 hours, now it’s 3.5 hours or more.
The games are boring.
And it’s not an extra hour of ads that run, it’s all the stupid time wasting crap on the field.
Interminable timeouts while the clueless fools in the replay booth waste time on a decision that we all can see when the network shows the replays, that needs either to be upheld or overturned in under 20 seconds! But the fools in the booth take several minutes.
“The games are boring”
Seen the ratings? Most fans wouldn’t agree with you whatsoever.
“The games are boring.”
Obviously you’re not a golfer.
Two things would help:
1) Keep the game clock running, for pete’s sake. I can’t understand why it takes 2 minutes to play 20 seconds of football, even when it’s a blowout score.
2) Instead of starting the later game 10 minutes later, why not make the early game start 10 minutes EARLIER so it gets done on time? In fact, why not shift the games a half-hour earlier in the first place so that prime time gets started on time? With the money that the networks are shelling out on football, they’ve earned the right to demand something.
@Christopher – West Coast. Games already start at 10AM there. And as another reader posted, the networks don’t mind NFL in Prime Time – has a wonderful affect on their ratings!
Dear God YES to your point #1, Christopher.
An NFL game has 60 minutes of playing time on the game clock.
Reputable statisticians have shown that the actual amount of time that the ball is in play is only 11 minutes a game.
So 11 minutes of actual play in a 60-minute long game.
And then the networks inject 75 minutes of filler, commentary, and replay on top of that, and then stuff the bird with another 75 minutes of commercials.
So 11 minutes of actual play becomes a monstrously-long 3.5 hour long telecast.
Unbelievable.
A) Change the rules of the game so that teams have to play for more than 11 minutes out of 60. At least 30 minutes out of 60 should be game play. Shorten the play-to-play delay. Increase the penalties for delay of game. Do what you have to so the game isn’t a bunch of guys standing around for 50 minutes a day.
B) Get rid of the fluff talk and replay, replay, replay from the commentators. Just show us the game, and the commercials which make the money. Nobody cares about the commentators, or the sideline reporter, or the gasbags at halftime, or whatever. The game, the commercials. That’s it. That’ll make the broadcast a nice 2 hours long.
Make these two changes, and pro football on the networks is watchable again.
The rule changes in this thread are hysterical. Please learn the game. Otherwise you are in the vast minority if you think people are worried about shows like the Good Wife being delayed.
Who gives a damm about football? Why don’t they play these games early??? Just don’t make me miss my epsiodes of the Mentalist.
Football is a money spinner for the networks so as much as regular primetime viewers don’t like it, it will always come first (no matter how highly rated or critically acclaimed their primetime lineup is). Whichever shows air on CBS’ Sunday night there will always be fans complaining about the delayed starts, so they’re never going to please anyone. It’s not ideal for us viewers, but the money at the bottom line makes it good business sense for the networks – Sports fans are never going to not watch football, and as it’s a live event their advertising slots are more lucrative.
Ask Morgan & Wong how following football worked out for them…
It’s a bigger deal than people think — viewers, especially older skewing CBS viewers will get frustrated when their shows aren’t on when they’re supposed to be. And if it happens enough times, they’ll abandon the show completely.
Football is the next best thing to chocolate.
In the same way that the Nielsen started to capture “live+7″ data to use DVR stats, they just need to agree to combine primary + sub-channel ratings for the same program airing the same day. Then ABC & Fox can put the regularly scheduled programming on a digital sub-channel that adheres to a set schedule.
Nielsen also needs to stop giving ratings data to the wrong programming based on the quarter hour slicing. It’s 2012, you can segment your data into 5 minute (or smaller) segments!
…and that’s how CSI Miami got unfairly cancelled..Still a better show than the orginal CSI or CSI NY. football killed it!
I agree that the time slot killed CSI Miami. And it will kill The Mentalist. It is awful here on the East Coast when that last show starts at 10:30 or 11.
Why even schedule a “real” show at the 10pm time slot during football season? Why not run an Undercover Boss type show? Hell, bring back Extreme Makeover Home Edition.
A show that people don’t have to follow story lines and it isn’t a big deal to miss. And then they still have a show in place for the earlier Mountain and Pacific time zones.
No more refs stalling with their heads under a hood examining every detail. BORING!!!! I find myself watching clips from Youtube of Steelers-Raiders matchups when football was fun. Not this crap.
Do you also bet on the results of the Youtube clips?
how about less commercials . there’s so many now that they slow down the pace of the games , make them more boring and longer