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Old Fri Mar 19, 2010, 12:28am
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my new all-time low is the "Two pits and a chesty". Gag!!!
That one's not new, either. I just hate how many more media timeouts there are.
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Old Fri Mar 19, 2010, 12:38am
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That one's not new, either. I just hate how many more media timeouts there are.
That is probably a year old. And I hate it BTW. I think it is stupid. But then again anything associated with the X-Game type sports are stupid if you ask me.

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Old Fri Mar 19, 2010, 07:55am
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that is probably a year old. And i hate it btw. I think it is stupid. But then again anything associated with the x-game type sports are stupid if you ask me.

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Old Fri Mar 19, 2010, 12:47pm
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that is probably a year old. And i hate it btw. I think it is stupid. But then again anything associated with the x-game type sports are stupid if you ask me.

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Old Fri Mar 19, 2010, 12:56pm
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There are a lot more ads in the evening games. But I just turned the tv off after about 10 mins of ads a while ago. They go back for a second and back to ads. happened about 3 times. lame. Yesterday before the evening games the coverage was great.
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Old Fri Mar 19, 2010, 08:37am
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That one's not new, either. I just hate how many more media timeouts there are.
Wasn't aware there were more media times-out. Maybe they were longer, but I don't think there were any additional media T-O's. Also, coaches tend to use more T-O's in the tourney.

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Old Fri Mar 19, 2010, 11:01am
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I ignore the commercials by flipping channels, too. Last night was good for that. I got to watch some NHL and also Cheech Marin on Jeopardy. It was a celebrity episode and he stomped Anderson Cooper.
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I ignore the commercials by flipping channels, too. Last night was good for that. I got to watch some NHL and also Cheech Marin on Jeopardy. It was a celebrity episode and he stomped Anderson Cooper.
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Old Fri Mar 19, 2010, 05:29pm
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Old Fri Mar 19, 2010, 05:28pm
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Me too, but I was actually watching a fight, Matt Cooke versus Shawn Thornton, when all of a sudden, a hockey game broke out, Bruins versus Penguins. The fight was more exciting than the hockey game, so I changed back to the basketball game.
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Old Sat Mar 20, 2010, 01:08am
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Wasn't aware there were more media times-out. Maybe they were longer, but I don't think there were any additional media T-O's. Also, coaches tend to use more T-O's in the tourney.

I don't watch commercials, I'm a channel flipper. Last night it was Sober House w/Dr. Drew.
I paid more attention to the one game I was most interested in today. I noticed that the under 16-minute media timeout was taken in the first half. Then around 13:37, Louisville is absolutely hemorrhaging (down 22-4), Pitino calls timeout, and CBS cuts to a 3-minute commercial. Apparently for NCAA Tournament games, the first called timeout in each half becomes a full-fledged media timeout, although that's also supposed to be the case for regular season games for the first called timeout in the second half.
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Old Sat Mar 20, 2010, 01:30am
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yeah there was a TO called by a team and the announcer even said something about it being under 4 minutes media timeout in the first half but it was a Team timeout. Goes to ads. Play resumes and seconds later an out of bounds call. TV timeout. In those cases they should just make the team TO's the tv ones.
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yeah there was a TO called by a team and the announcer even said something about it being under 4 minutes media timeout in the first half but it was a Team timeout. Goes to ads. Play resumes and seconds later an out of bounds call. TV timeout. In those cases they should just make the team TO's the tv ones.
What aggravates me (or would if I didn't have the DirecTV package) is how CBS goes to another game, but just *gotta* get in a series of commercials first. Then they go to the other game and it's time for a media timeout. MORE commercials.

At least with the DirecTV package, I can watch the other game instead of watching the commercials once a game ends. Of course, there are other annoyances -- I have to watch one of the games on my local CBS station, which does "live look-ins" and will break away from the game I'm watching. Happened during the Wisconsin game yesterday. I'm in Wisconsin and was forced to watch the end of ANOTHER game I could simply tune to (the games are on 702-705) if I wanted to. In order to watch Wisconsin during these live lookins, I have to tune to the mix channel, which shows 4 screens in one. Those here without the package have to listen on the radio or wait till they come back.
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yeah there was a TO called by a team and the announcer even said something about it being under 4 minutes media timeout in the first half but it was a Team timeout. Goes to ads. Play resumes and seconds later an out of bounds call. TV timeout. In those cases they should just make the team TO's the tv ones.
The problem with this is the ad packages are sold with all the timeouts in mind; media and team timeouts. It's not like they only sell ads for the TV timeouts.
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Old Fri Mar 19, 2010, 05:44pm
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That one's not new, either. I just hate how many more media timeouts there are.
I don't think there are. It looks like the standard under 16-, 12-, 8-, 4- minute media timeouts. BTW - I personally have never seen the under 15-, 10-, 5- minute media timeouts. Anyone here ever see that format used before?

What CBS seems to be doing is using the called timeouts at the end of games to put in quick 15 and 30 second ads. Other broadcasters don't seem to do that.

And help me out here, since I can't seem to find an answer. What happens if an entire media timeout period goes without a suitable stoppage in play? That media timeout just goes away?
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