Football fans are not happy with NFL RedZone this season.

The central selling point for the NFL Media product used to be that it was “Seven hours of commercial-free football.” However, since the switch to ESPN, the Sunday viewing plug has been bombarding viewers with ads.

While the NFL initially claimed that commercials would be limited on RedZone and essentially go unnoticed, that is no longer the case. Four short ads were promised during the seven-hour broadcast in Week 1. However, Sports Business Journal has pointed out that 16 of them aired in Week 13.

Half of them offered audio of a commercial in one box while a game was shown in another box. The other half took up much of the screen in banner fashion, with the action people paid to see limited to a smaller section of the screen.

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