2017 update: ESPN published a study of the 2017 playoffs, which have been dragging. 2015: thanks to new pace of play rules, the average length of a baseball game dropped by 6 minutes from 2014. That means there’s nearly 5 times as many commercials now than 50 years ago.
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The latest WSJ study found that fully 42 minutes and 41 seconds of between-inning inactivity would be purely commercial time on TV broadcasts. A 1952 TV broadcast showed about 13 minutes of action but just 9 minutes 45 seconds of commercials. But, the amount of action has stayed roughly the same. Baseball games have been increasing in length (thanks in part to the eighteen annual 4-hour marathons between the glacial Boston Red Sox and equally glacial New York Yankees) over the years.
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So I started looking far and wide for “Ball in Play” studies for the 5 major professional sports to compare and contrast the TV viewer experience.
I got to wondering just how many frigging commercials do they really show in NFL games these days? This pursuit led to the larger issue: How often is the ball actually in play in an NFL game? How often are the fans just sitting there watching crowd shots or replays or pictures of cheerleaders or head coaches looking constipated? So I can’t be casting too many hypocritical stones against my football-following brethren (this is a Baseball-focused blog after all). Ironically, the same distinct lack of action complaint is easily seen in baseball broadcasts. I’ll ask “Hey, what time is the 8:00 game?” And instead of the answer being obvious … the answer is 8:15 or 8:30 or whenever they’ve now pushed the late Sunday night game thanks to the 4:00 games running late (you know, since they now start at 4:15 or 4:25 or whenever they’re slated to start). Every time there’s a time-out, a break in play, after every challenge, there’s more commercials. Notice how games used to be slated for 1pm and 4pm on Sundays? Now they’re 1pm and 4:15pm, or maybe even 4:25pm, with seemingly all that extra time now devoted to commercials. But in the past few years or so, slowly my patience for watching an entire NFL football broadcast has ended. I’ve never been the biggest NFL fan, despite living in a distinctly football town here in Washington DC. I’m always looking for more and better information and am all ears if you have links to these kinds of studies. Over the years I have updated this post with additional information, resulting in adjusted numbers from the original. That’s not the point here.Įditor Post-publishing Update: this was originally published in July of 2013. If you love football, then you’ll sit there for hours on end. If you love Cricket, you’ll sit there for 5 hour test matches where there’s fractions of periods of real action. This is about LIVE ACTION stats and the viewing experience. Note: if you’ve found this and want to make a comment about how football is such a more exiting sport than soccer, or think this is some sort of anti-football post … then you’re missing the point. NFL footage © NFL Productions LLC.How much live action actually occurs in each major sport? All other NFL-related trademarks are trademarks of the National Football League. NFL and the NFL shield design are registered trademarks of the National Football League.The team names, logos and uniform designs are registered trademarks of the teams indicated.
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