Looking for a way to prevent competitors commercials in my restaurant

[finchml250]

I own my own restaurant and I was wondering if anyone knew how to set my televisions up so that when a sports game goes to commercial for example, instead of showing the commercial I have my own pre-recorded commercials/advertisements for my store to come on.

I have seen this in places before so I know there must be some way. Any help is appreciated.

[hech54]

Are you even allowed to show a televised "sports game" in your restaurant? Somehow I doubt that.

[Cornucopia]

There are a number of "licensing options" for sports bars, dance nightclubs, etc. to show certain channels or events (at a fee attractive to the show producers). So it's quite possible to completely legally show stuff -even as an attraction/incentive.

You could look up "time delay" devices (like they use to bleep out swear words on the networks) to manually swtich to your own content. Or you could get a pc that had software that detects scene change (with fade-downs & fade-ups) and automatically switches to different material for pre-determined amounts of time...

Scott

[Noahtuck]

Good luck with live broadcasts!!!
Or even realtime OTA broadcasts!!

I have seen this in places before so I know there must be some way. Any help is appreciated.

They either paid the local cable company or tv station for the ad time or were showing pre-recorded content after inserting their own advertisements in the allotted space or had someone live delaying the broadcast's and inserting the commercials (which i doubt for some local bar or establishment) as it would be too much work and would be to expensive.

Things like that don't just happen by magic or with the use of some "magic bullet" program on the fly within a few seconds.....

[AlanHK]

You could look up "time delay" devices

Creates interesting possibilites for those betting on games and races.