Fox cut into the final 96 seconds of Sunday's matchup between the San Francisco 49ers and the Cleveland Browns, sending most of the country elsewhere.
Fans of the 49ers may have wished they hadn’t watched the end of Sunday’s 19-17 loss to the Browns. But most football fans across the country didn’t get to see the final 96 seconds of the game — whether they wanted to or not. The matchup in Cleveland ran so long that viewers in most markets outside of the Bay Area and Cleveland left the Fox telecast with 1:36 left in the game.
often receives criticism from sports fans when it sticks with the game it is currently broadcasting — most frequently in college basketball or college football — and push the next event on the schedule to a secondary network . It even once sent an NBA playoff game to a different channel to keep the feed on boxing. Still,
occasionally makes the cut-in call. It most recently did so Friday night, and received vocal complaints for leaving a high school football game in the final 30 seconds to show an NBA preseason game. It’s a no-win choice: Stick with the current game, even if that means some fans will miss the start of a game they’ve been waiting for; or cut away from a game fans have watched almost all of right when it’s getting good.
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