{"id":1553,"date":"2025-10-20T21:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2025-10-20T21:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:22:02","slug":"fans-outraged-over-nfl-redzones-increase-in-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/sports-media\/fans-outraged-over-nfl-redzones-increase-in-commercials\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans Outraged Over NFL RedZone\u2019s Increase In Commercials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seven hours of commercial-free football with Scott Hanson, remember those days? What once was a beautiful thing, is now a distant memory for NFL fans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After experimenting with some commercials towards the end of last season, the NFL announced that the popular RedZone channel would no longer be a commercial-free product entering the 2025 campaign. Instead, the NFL added four separate 15-second commercial breaks, which added up to a total of one minute in length of the seven hour broadcast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although NFL RedZone was seeing an increase in commercial inventory, the league made a promise to its viewers through Hanson that they would not miss a single touchdown from every game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Fans sound off on increase in commercials\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So far, they have held true to that promise. However, the commercial breaks have increased substantially, with viewers starting to take notice. There are some reports of fans seeing as many as 10 commercials during Sunday\u2019s RedZone broadcast, up substantially from what the league was doing at the beginning of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Remember when NFL RedZone had 2 commercials and they said that\u2019d be it\u2026 and people believed it? I\u2019ve seen at least 10 commercials today.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Lindgren (@John_Lindgren) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/John_Lindgren\/status\/1980028838492196981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NFL redzone went from 2 commercials the first week to at least 8 or 9 today <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nooticing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#nooticing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 2-3 (@watsonwillwin) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/watsonwillwin\/status\/1980043166964457585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WAYYYY TOO MANY COMMERCIALS!!! <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/redzone?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#redzone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff (@jeffjeff360) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffjeff360\/status\/1980029018016809179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Why happened to the RedZone we once knew and loved?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is where the issue lies for fans of NFL RedZone: the product only gets worse with the commercials. Since 2023, fans have been paying $14.99 for RedZone through the premium package on NFL+. Although the viewers are having to sit through commercials, they aren\u2019t gaining anything better from what they had previously in the product.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Michael David Smith of <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/nfl-adds-more-commercials-to-redzone-channel\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ProFootballTalk<\/a> notes, this change has a significantly negative effect on viewers\u2019 habits of how they consume the channel, \u201cWhat the NFL has done to RedZone is fundamentally different than the commercials during a regular game. Football fans are well accustomed to commercials after scores and changes of possession, and fans can accept that those breaks are part of the game. RedZone was always \u2014 always \u2014 billed as something different, something \u201ccommercial-free,\u201d something hard-core fans should be willing to pay a premium for because it\u2019s nothing but football.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added, \u201cNow it\u2019s not. Now it\u2019s football and commercials, with the number of commercials only increasing and the football therefore decreasing. It may mean more money for the NFL, but it\u2019s a raw deal for the fans who subscribe to RedZone.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Is it ESPN&#8217;s fault?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One common misconception is that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/sports-media\/top-college-football-pregame-show-heads-for-volunteer-state\/\" target=\"_self\">ESPN<\/a> has something to do with this, as they are in the process of purchasing NFL Media. This is incorrect. Even after the purchase of NFL Media by ESPN is complete, NFL RedZone will still be produced by NFL Media. It is the choice solely of the NFL, not of ESPN, to have the increase in commercials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With that said, it is hard to imagine that NFL RedZone will ever go back to being commercial-free ever again, whether it is run by NFL Media or ESPN.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven hours of commercial-free football with Scott Hanson, remember those days? What once was a beautiful thing, is now a distant memory for NFL fans. After experimenting with some commercials towards the end of last season, the NFL announced that the popular RedZone channel would no longer be a commercial-free product entering the 2025 campaign. 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