For NFL fans, RedZone Channel has been beloved in large part because it was, as we were always assured at the start of the broadcast, “Seven hours of commercial-free football.” The football is no longer commercial-free, and that makes RedZone Channel worse.

The league experimented with RedZone commercials on one Sunday last season, and despite widespread complaints from fans, this season the NFL has decided to put commercials on RedZone every Sunday.

The result: More money for the NFL, and a lesser experience for viewers.

After the NFL announced that RedZone would no longer be commercial-free, there was a concerted propaganda effort from the league office minimizing how much those commercials would interfere with the games. We were told it would be only four 15-second commercials, shown

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