No, no story about cycling this time… it’s about the new commercial TV station (Talpa) that is broadcasting the football summaries on Sunday evening. They bought the TV rights for the football summaries earlier this year, outbidding the public TV station (NOS) which used to have the TV rights for as long as there has been football on TV. Nothing bad about that, we would just turn on a different channel when watching the football summaries on Sunday evening.

Well… changing the channel worked… but it will definitely take time to get used to the new show. They still show all the summaries, so that didn’t change, but as it’s a commercial TV station now, there were a couple of 7 minutes (!!!) commercial breaks… Totally killing the pace of the show… They always used to show all football summaries right after eachother, but now with the big waits me and my dad were kinda lost… What to do now? Well, get another cup of coffee… but that doesn’t take 7 minutes… Finally we ended up talking about some other things, which had nothing to do with football… weirdness!!! Normally we would only comment on flying tackles, beautiful goals, bad referees and annoying players for the hour the football summaries show took… So this was weird… Also because they mixed up the Sunday games, with the games played earlier that weekend, so stuff we had already seen. Annoying, as we just wanted see the “new” Sunday matches first…

But again, I think it’s just all about getting used to the new format… For more then 20 years I have been used to a certain format of watching the football summaries on Sunday evening, so it has to take time to change that feeling… I just hope they will cut back the commercial breaks a little bit… to get at least some of the pace back into the show… because like this it will take a hell of a long time to get used to it!

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