{"id":117417,"date":"2025-09-03T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117417\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:00:07","slug":"scott-hanson-confirms-nfl-redzone-will-have-commercials-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117417\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Hanson confirms NFL RedZone will have commercials this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will no longer be seven hours of commercial-free football on NFL RedZone. <\/p>\n<p>A late-season experiment <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/nfl-sees-fan-backlash-after-showing-commercials-during-sundays-redzone-broadcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">with showing commercials<\/a> wasn\u2019t popular with viewers last year and host Scott Hanson <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/scott-hanson-apologizes-for-calling-redzone-commercial-free-when-it-wasnt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">had to apologize<\/a> for saying at the start of the broadcast that the show would be free of advertisements, but they are now here to stay. Hanson confirmed that during an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hanson said he will now start the day by saying that \u201cseven hours of RedZone football <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/1963286799872069762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">starts now<\/a>\u201d and called it a business decision that he was not part of making. RedZone\u2019s rights became the property of ESPN when the network acquired NFL Media earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>Hanson vowed that the change will not interfere with the goal of showing every significant moment in every game on Sundays. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to sacrifice <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/1963287323241578540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">any great football<\/a> for the business side of things,\u201d Hanson said.<\/p>\n<p>Some longtime RedZone watchers will likely feel that the change sacrifices one of their favorite parts of the viewing experience, but commerce has won out over any of those complaints. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will no longer be seven hours of commercial-free football on NFL RedZone. A late-season experiment with showing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-117417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}