[RKDinOKC]

Wow, sure glad I didn't pay a bunch to watch it.

It is like the broadcasting profession is like everyone else. Nobody knows what they are doing anymore.

There is a reason NBC had their own commontators. NBC did not have control of the video feed or even camera shots. This was obvious from comments made about incidents and waiting for the video. Their own commontators did let them update viewer's on what happened during commercials.

Does ESPN actually cover ANY sort of auto racing themselves or just push feeds?

When I first started watching F1 I was recovering from surgery and on pain killers that made my attention span very short. At times I would fall asleep just waiting for the guide to scroll from channel 4 down to 58 so I could see what was on 58. Would wake up still holding the button down and the guide just scrolling away. There were very few shows I could watch, F1, WWF. and Jerry Springer. It was because they had very short commercial breaks. Everything else I would forget what I was watching during the commercial breaks and change channels or fall asleep.

Nowadays can't watch much on network TV, over-the-air or wired. End up falling asleep during the 10 to 14 commercials in a row. Even if very interested and enjoying the program. That is why Kodi, Hulu (no commercials subscription), cord cutting etc is so popular. It''s not so much the cost of the services, it's that you pay for the privilege of watching as much commercial content as programming.

Don't understand why they haven't figured out they can run sponsors logos in the corner like they do network identification and get rid of the commercial breaks altogether. When you pause, after a few seconds it goes to running commercials until you resume, call it an intermission pause. Run ads on the guide and program info screens. You could even team up with Google AdSense and have the ads focused by topics you are interested in. Maybe I should start a streaming service? Think it would be wildly popular compared to today's offerings.