"because we don’t have an alternative"

Ads embedded on the playing field? Sure. Billboards visible or sponsor logos on uniforms? I get it. Actual commercials? This is a solved issue for decades, there are "alternatives" as others have pointed out. This is a "Boiling frog" situation.

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scotty79 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Ads embedded on the playing field? Sure. Billboards visible or sponsor logos on uniforms?

To be honest if I'm paying for no ads I'd be expect to have an option to blur that crap on inpaint it with AI.

Monitors and TVs should have this option.

	▲	chrismorgan 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A lot of the ads on the field and perimeter are themselves inpainted. And becoming more and more offensive over time, with animation and flashing and such as technical capabilities improve and viewers become accustomed and don’t revolt.

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bena 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No, there's nothing really to do. They aren't producing the feed, they're essentially hosting a stream from another broadcaster.

For instance, if you have Paramount+, you can watch sports broadcast by your local CBS station through it. That station is going to be running commercials, Paramount+ has no input on it. The most they can do is run ads over their ads.

I'm assuming there's something similar with Disney+. You can watch your local ABC broadcast or ESPN broadcast of a game, but you're just getting that broadcast as being currently aired.

But even for broadcasts wholly owned and controlled by a streaming platform, like Thursday Night Football on Prime, there are just times when it would be dead air. I don't entirely mind commercials in that instance. Nothing else is going on.

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itopaloglu83 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Let’s reverse the situation, they were able to add ads to sport events, so they can definitely remove ads and show the main event cameras if they wanted to. But they’re picking up showing ads indirectly through some other service.

	▲	bena 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Who is "they" in this situation? I noted that the streaming service, like Paramount+, would be able to overlay their own ads over the broadcasted commercials, but they won't have control over the cameras. That's on the broadcast station, they're the ones controlling the remote production. Paramount+ can only rebroadcast what my local CBS affiliate is broadcasting. I think only Netflix and Prime have deals to actually produce sports broadcasts.

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Kinrany 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ads consume attention, so I do prefer static. Then again, I don't know why people watch TV (at all) or browse without uBlock.

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bena 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Does uBlock work on commercials aired as part of a stream/broadcast? I don't mean where they interrupt the stream and insert an ad, I mean that it's part of the video produced.

I genuinely don't know and am asking out of curiosity.

	▲	Kinrany 22 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I wouldn't know, for the same reason: I don't see the point in watching a stream rather than something one specifically wants to watch.
	▲	eek2121 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Depends on the service.

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1317 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do like international broadcasters do for these things and opt out to your own presenters with analysis etc

	▲	bena 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm unsure. I believe I've seen Telemundo at certain events, but they could have deals to rebroadcast and they'd have the same options as Paramount+. They can run ads over the broadcast ads and swap the audio feed with their own. The broadcast feed should have at the very least; a video feed, a crowd/stadium audio feed, and the commentary audio feed. So they could just not rebroadcast the commentary audio and replace it with their own.

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ChrisRR 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I read it more as a contract issue rather than a technical issue