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Commercials cutting into programming

This is probably the 7th time this week that I've seen Verizon commercials interrupt normal programming on NFL network. They're always in pairs with the first one being a local commercial (with particularly bad production values) and the second being a FIOS commercial. The last one just happened at 9:47 PM EDT in the middle of the Thursday Night Football game. It's incredibly annoying.

I don't normally watch NFL network but this seems to happen very consistently. It's going to be a big problem if this happens when teams I care about are playing.

Is this normal or is something wrong? Is anyone else seeing this?

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dogboy2

It just happened again, 10:26pm. Ridiculous.

Eagles2k12

Ticking me off too right in the midde of plays

Eagles2k12

Do u also get telemarketers and people calling asking to switch urtility companies? Like clockwork they call

dogboy2

...and it happened again. 10:38pm. Missed the play but saw a nice Volkswagen. I also know which politician is raising property taxes. Don't know if Manning completed the pass.

Dupermon

What is Verizon going to do about this? It is very annoying to have a live sports broadcast interrupted by political (or any) commericials. I'm sure the NFL network will have something to say to Verizon.

jeff_underscore

Sort it out Verizon! That is not acceptable in the least. Happening every week on Thursday Night football.

ajtaylor

Got off the phone with Verizon after being disconnected (on hold for 20 minutes). They blamed the NFL Network for the commercials. Try to say they have nothing to do with the commercials. No one wants to take responsibilty for this lousy situation.

jeff_underscore

Yea, right. like the NFL network wants to interrupt their own game. Ugh. No solution incoming I guess.

Planet19

I guess this has been going on for a while now. And Verizon does not seem to know about it or simply doesn't care. It's the most annoying thing. Does anybody have a direct number we can call to express our disatisfaction on the subject? Because obviously nobody from Verizon FiOS is reading these posts.

gmen77

These ads are all local ads, being sold by whoever is selling ads in the area. I've asked friends who have Comcast, Time Warner, etc., nobody else is having this problem. It's ridiculous.

doropallo

I guess I'll send an email to the NFL and tell them I can't watch their games because FIOS chops it up. See what they say.

specialp

Not only this, but sometimes they come on SUPER LOUD and scare the crap out of me. At 1015 a Local NIssan dealer commercial came on so loud I had to shut off MNF!

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