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Super Bowl on Tubi (US only)

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#1 ·
I don't know how many of you have heard about TUBI streaming the Super Bowl this year. I'm wondering if Tubi will air it in Canada and the reason I have hope for this is because when I went on Tubi, they have a link in place for it in Canada and it says its available for streaming. Can anyone confirm? I know Bell owns the broadcast rights but likely not the Streaming rights which is owned by Fox. It will be in 4K too.
 
#5 ·
Coverage will be broadcast across TSN, CTV, CTV2 and the French-language RDS. Digitally, NFL action will also be accessible on the media company’s various digital platforms, as well as via the TSN Direct and RDS Direct subscription streaming services. The TSN Edge platform will also continue to provide official fantasy and betting content.

The renewal also includes RedZone, which had previously been exclusive to DAZN, the International Series and the new Monday night games being added for the 2022 season. Bell’s deal has been described as exclusive for linear broadcast, but DAZN’s digital deal is also up for renewal ahead of the new campaign.
Also: NFL and DAZN Group announce new 10-year deal for Canada starting in 2023

I see nothing that indicates Fox holds Canadian streaming rights.
 
#19 ·
I was going to say the commercials and halftime show but the halftime show is a rapper so I'll pass.

Also I wouldn't want to sit through all that football to see the commercials so I will find an alternative place to see them.
Satellite Debris on Global Vancouver will have some of them.
 
#24 ·
I remember people 10 years ago saying this: "Commercials? Whats that? Streaming all the way" Now it looks like commercials made a comeback. For me its the game don't care about the US ads or Canadian ads. if I you want to see the US Ads, watch Youtube the next day it will be filled with all the ads clips.
 
#27 ·
What ExDilbert said. Can you think of any other event/show besides the Super Bowl (whose commercials never lost their "wanna see" vibe) that has people saying, "I want to watch the commercials!"? There might be a couple each year for fans of an upcoming movie or event but that's not ads making a comeback.
 
#25 ·
The thing about the US Superbowl commercials is that they have become part of the entertainment. US companies spend large sums to produce some of the best and most entertaining commercials on TV and spend millions of dollars more to debut them aired during the Superbowl. Canadian companies want to replace them with their typical repetitive, dated, drab, boring, sometimes insulting commercials that detract from the event. Canadian broadcasters sometimes detract from the main event by extending break times and inserting extra commercials during game play as well. Removing the Superbowl commercials can detract from the event as they are often aired to align with game downtime and what would be dead air or filler from a couple of talking heads.
 
#30 ·
The thing about the US Superbowl commercials is that they have become part of the entertainment. US companies spend large sums to produce some of the best and most entertaining commercials on TV...
I used to think that 10 or 15 years ago. I even went to the web sites to watch the ads a few times, since we are out of range of U.S. OTA stations in Winnipeg. Then I realized they weren't that great, and those are the same commercials I skip on my PVR the rest of the year.

Last year my nephew invited the family to watch the U.S. feed and it seemed that most of the ads consisted of watching a well-paid celebrity showing up in an otherwise bland commercial. It turned into a game of "spot the celebrity." The highlight of my Super Bowl experience was the next night when I saw this bit on Jimmy Fallon.

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#28 ·
It’s rather odd that the Tubi App on my Apple TV actually has an inscription in it, ‘Home of Super Bowl LIX”. I’m surprised that there would even be any reference to this, knowing that I’m watching from Canada.
A few weeks ago, my Roku kept showing me ads to watch Babylon 5 - which I was keen to see. But it was US only, and led nowhere. People make mistakes.


What ExDilbert said. Can you think of any other event/show besides the Super Bowl (whose commercials never lost their "wanna see" vibe) that has people saying, "I want to watch the commercials!"? There might be a couple each year for fans of an upcoming movie or event but that's not ads making a comeback.
I certainly can't think of anything else that people might watch just for the commercials. Though commercials do seem to be making a bit of a comeback - at least in the number I'm seeing, between Prime and all these free streaming channels. Though a minimal amount of commercials is one thing. The FCC rules used to be less than 10 minutes of commercials per hour. And even when it got the the 12-minute point in the 1970s or so, it was bearable.

20 minute per hour though, I just can't handle.

I've no interest in watching that much gridiron football though just to watch some (good) commercials. Sometimes I pop in for the half-time show. I haven't heard who this year's is ..... hang on ... Kendrick Lamar? Fox is just trolling Canada aren't they. Oh well, not my favourite genre. I preferred The Weeknd.
 
#29 ·
I certainly can't think of anything else that people might watch just for the commercials. Though commercials do seem to be making a bit of a comeback - at least in the number I'm seeing, between Prime and all these free streaming channels.
Putting it that way, yes, some people are getting exposed to more commercials because they choose to pay less or nothing. Live sports events like the Super Bowl have the same amount, no idea how FAST channels like Tubi compare with old-style cable channels, and the other stuff generally has ad-free tiers. I'll put up with unskippable commercials during live sports events because that's just the nature of the beast but I'm not going back to the pre-PVR (or pre-VCR!) era with unskippable ads during pre-recorded shows.
 
#33 ·
Some companies use advertising as a form of brainwashing. They do this by using overly repetitive ads that saturate all forms of media that are relevant to the target audience. If a government did this we would condemn it as propaganda. It's use by government is also baked into many countries' laws and constitutions. Yet we allow its use by big businesses and rich individuals who use it to gain economic power and and political influence. The end result is the same.