It is not just sponsors. It is across the board.
You have more people who are 'waiting on payments' before they can do business. Before, you could close out things fairly easily and not have this 15-45 day waiting game of people trying to get their money together, or waiting on payments.
It is not completely their fault. When people do not pay them, they can't pay me. When it is done on a big enough scale, i.e. sponsors, then you start seeing a rippling effect going through the industry to start effecting everyone.
Yes. I find it annoying. But as someone else had said, sign of the times with the economy.
