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Plex team …

I like the Live TV feature but I hate the commercial placement during LIVE sporting events (specifically the MotoGP channel).

Please, please, please don’t play the commercials while there are MOTORCYCLES ON THE TRACK. Literally defeats the purpose of tuning into the channel.

Otherwise, it is a decent feature I have started using more recently … AS LONG AS THE COMMERCIALS DON’T GET OUT OF HAND.

Thanks.

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Just curious, how would this work? Aren’t there always motorcycles on the track during a race? Or are there multiple races and you would only consider acceptable to have ads between races?

Forgive me if it seems a näive question. I’m more familiar with F1 and NASCAR (and similar) where the races are continual, from start to finish.

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Not at all. Happy to explain.

  • MotoGP has 2 supporting classes at each race (Moto3 & Moto2).
  • Over the course of a weekend, each class has multiple practice sessions (3). The MotoGP class gets an extra warm up session on Sunday mornings before all the racing starts.
  • All 3 classes have 2 qualifying sessions (Q1 and Q2).
  • MotoGP has a Sprint Race on Saturdays and a Full Race on Sundays.
  • Moto3 & Moto2 have a single Full Race on Sundays.

So, 9 practice sessions, 6 qualys, 1 warm up (MotoGP) and 4 races in total. So yeah, it can seem like there is constant racing going on.

Inserting commercials between sessions is totally fine. I’m a captive audience while waiting for the next session/race to start. It just seems like whoever is doing the schedule for commercial insertion doesn’t understand that ads become intolerable when they interrupt live action (even when the “action” is just a formation lap or a warm up/cool down before or after the race/session because as any F1 fan would know, things can and will happen in, on before or after actual sessions. There are enough breaks to get commercials in and not to need to do that.