Invoice Maher would like to observe NFL video games on linear TV, not on streaming. In Friday’s episode of his present Actual Time With Invoice Maher, the comic railed towards the NFL’s current push into streaming TV.
“Benefit from the Tremendous Bowl this weekend whilst you can as a result of it’s in all probability one of many final ones to be proven on broadcast TV, which is a disgrace as a result of streaming is ruining soccer, and that’s Taylor Swift’s job,” he quipped.
Maher stated he used to have the ability to swap between NFL video games by hitting one button on his distant management. “However on YouTube TV, I’ve to return to the house web page, go to ‘Sports activities,’ go to ‘NFL,’ then scroll throughout to seek out the second sport you wish to test on, [and] watch for the circle-y factor to settle down,” he stated.
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The HBO host thought soccer transferring to streaming would imply he wouldn’t have to take a seat by commercials. “No! Loads of commercials,” he stated. “Besides, in contrast to outdated TV the place I could have DVR’d the sport to observe later after it’s over and I might zip by the commercials, streaming purposely makes it so you possibly can’t try this. They don’t allow you to see what you’re fast-forwarding by, so there’s no strategy to inform the place the commercials finish and the motion resumes. The beginning of the third quarter, it’s more durable to seek out than the G-spot.”
Maher identified that it’s unattainable to discover a sport on streaming a full day after it has aired. “It’s simply gone, like an FBI agent who investigated [Donald] Trump,” he joked. “So what I’ve now’s the worst of all worlds: I’ve to observe it when it’s on, I’m paying for it, and I’m nonetheless watching commercials, and I can’t zip by them. Boy, isn’t it nice that issues are higher than the outdated days after we needed to sit by commercials and watch exhibits proper once they aired? Yeah, so a lot better. And lest you suppose that is solely a boomer bitching? No, I checked Reddit. Youngsters of all ages hate this s***.”
For the 2024 soccer season, the NFL gave unique video games to Netflix, Prime Video, Peacock, and ESPN+, in line with CBS Sports activities. Tremendous Bowl LIX, a minimum of, will nonetheless be viewable on broadcast TV, airing on Fox on Sunday, February 9, whereas streaming on the NFL app and Tubi.
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