On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:01 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:49 PM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Best as I can tell, CBS broke perhaps once early during the outage, >> mainly to get their own facilities reset or otherwise able to broadcast. >> When the lights went, their audio feed went as well. >> >> Not sure that answers your question. Based on the lack of notable >> commercials in my area (DC) for halftime, I don't think early 3rd quarter >> is prime ad space. >> > > I will go back after the game and check my DVR, but we thought they broke > 2 or 3 times for commercials during the outage, and it seemed like through > the 3rd quarter we saw repeats of less than stellar ads from the first > half. >
I did re-watch the video from the outage - I found that they broke three times for commercials during the 33'37" (by my stopwatch) interruption. Here is the tick-tock from my notes: - During a replay between the 2nd and 3rd down for the 49ers after the Raven's returned the halftime kickoff for a TD, the announcers sound abruptly cuts out (and we will not hear anything from them for another 29'16"). - We get 35" of verbal silence, though we do hear ambient noise from the stadium. Then the producer (or is it the director?) shows us a nice shot of the bank of lights in the roof; on one side they are on, the other they are off. Without anyone saying anything, the image gives us pretty much all we need to know (and will ever know for the rest of the game) about what has happened. - Still without any words, CBS goes to commercials at 1'12" after the outage. These appear to be premium ads (in order, Ironman, Century 21-Wedding; Blackberry; E-Trade Baby, a CBS promo for Blue Bloods, and the NFL Disclaimer - At 3'35" they take us to sideline reporter Steve Tasker for the first actual words since the outage; he does a pretty good job telling us what has happened and what he can see, and reports that it is light enough inside so that there is no safety concern. - 1'12" after going back to Tasker, they go back to commercials. This is the break where it seems to me CBS was giving some bonus spots out (Subway Blooper reel, which it sure seemed like it was at least the second time we saw that, or was it just so bad it felt that way?); Bud Lite: "Lucky Chair" (ditto); an NFL Evolution spot - After 2'6" for the commercial break, back to Tasker and then Solomon Wilcox on the other sideline, who both do a pretty good job, all things considered. - After 1'39" of the sideline guys, they go to James Brown and the Studio cast (their studio show has been done from the field all day) - After 3'35" of the studio gang, the third and final commercial break of the outage. This is very brief - 32" and consists of a promo for CBS comedies - Back and without commercial breaks until action starts for 20'46", and CBS stays mostly with the studio group, punctuated by reports from the sideline reporters and finally Nance and Simms in the broadcast booth at the 29'16" mark since the outage started. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
