February 6, 2006

As you know, last night was the Superbowl. Everyone knows that people watch the the Superbowl, but WATCH for the new commercials. So there we were about 21 of us waiting to see the new ads when spanish commercials come on. People started yelling, complaining and checking to see if it was being shown on another network aside from ABC. Nope. A couple of times, a real Superbowl commercial would come on only to be cut off 5 seconds later to show spanish commercials that are old as hell.

It seems that the PR cable company must have made some deal to black out the american commercials in favor of showing old Medalla Light, Coors Light and car commercials. I'm guessing that people who have Direct TV or another cable provider were probably able to see the ads, but anyone in the metropolitan area with OneLink Communications cable were screwed. It really did suck. This is the first time they've done this with the Superbowl, but not the first time something like this has happened.

OneLink is just the newest company to buy out the old cable company. Before them, we had Adelphia...but as you might have heard, the CEO of that CA based company got into some legal trouble and so on. Adelphia once blacked out all the pre-fights on this one boxing pay-per-view ticket and only showed the main match. People were furious and they got a lot of sh*t for that.

Also, sometimes the local channels will buy the rights to big shows like the Oscars. When they do that, they block the ABC, CBS or NBC signal for those hours and transmit the show on their channel. So this blacking out commercials or buy of showing rights isn't new here. But it sure did suck.

So I saw no Superbowl ads. :(