Invoice Maher would like to look at NFL video games on linear TV, not on streaming. In Friday’s episode of his present Actual Time With Invoice Maher, the comic railed in opposition to 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 search out the second recreation you need to verify on, [and] look ahead to the circle-y factor to settle down,” he stated.
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The HBO host thought soccer shifting to streaming would imply he wouldn’t have to take a seat by means of commercials. “No! Loads of commercials,” he stated. “Besides, not like outdated TV the place I could have DVR’d the sport to look at later after it’s over and I might zip by means of the commercials, streaming purposely makes it so you’ll be able to’t do this. They don’t allow you to see what you’re fast-forwarding by means of, so there’s no approach to inform the place the commercials finish and the motion resumes. The beginning of the third quarter, it’s tougher to search out than the G-spot.”
Maher identified that it’s unattainable to discover a recreation 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 look at it when it’s on, I’m paying for it, and I’m nonetheless watching commercials, and I can’t zip by means of them. Boy, isn’t it nice that issues are higher than the outdated days after we needed to sit by means of commercials and watch reveals proper once they aired? Yeah, so significantly better. And lest you assume that is solely a boomer bitching? No, I checked Reddit. Children 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 accordance with CBS Sports activities. Tremendous Bowl LIX, not less than, 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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