The addition of commercials to NFL RedZone has already angered plenty of fans, and Mike Florio is not letting the issue slide.
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As Awful Announcing pointed out, the ProFootballTalk founder even used his NBC platform on Football Night in America to hammer home his point. In a piece he also published Sunday, Florio argued that while the number of ads might currently be "limited," they set a dangerous precedent.
"Despite the limited number of commercials, the presence of any ads opens the door for more," Florio wrote. "Four perhaps becomes eight, eight perhaps becomes more. And the consumer is the frog in the pot of water that is gradually getting hotter."
Florio also noted that RedZone is still a premium product, with plenty of people willing to pay for it, but that does not mean viewers are not getting a worse experience. Awful Announcing added that despite claims to the contrary, there were times on Sunday when RedZone's broadcast exclusively showed advertisements.
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For Florio, the issue is not simply about one or two extra commercial breaks. It is about the slippery slope of taking something fans loved for its unique format and gradually making it look like every other NFL broadcast.
RedZone built its reputation on promising seven straight hours of wall-to-wall action. The second you break that promise, even a little, you risk alienating the very audience that made the channel valuable in the first place.
For now, Florio says fans should expect more of the same — and probably more ads. "They're not going anywhere," he wrote.
That won't ease frustrations for a subscriber base that long bought into RedZone for one reason: uninterrupted football.
