In a message dated 8/1/2006 10:05:26 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
tboyer@... writes:

Wonder if this was driven by TV networks, which want to be able to schedule
games in 3-hour blocks. Of course they could also have accomplished that by
cutting 5 minutes of TV timeouts instead of cutting action.




it was TV. but not to change the size of the slots. its to make the current
game fit into the existing slots. the first game has been running way past
3:30 and it has been getting worse.

and if you are in a sports bar and your game is coming up on a certain
channel you won't see your game till the game in front of it ends. i am sure
others have experienced what i am talking about.

bobbyd




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