[NU Sports] Softball, Big Ten Network rant

[Roger Bradshaw]

Last night here in Louisville, they preempted part of the end of the Siena-Louisville game to switch between the other games that were concluding (MSU-USC, Marquette-Missouri). During that time, Louisville went from being down 2 to being up 5 but we saw none of it here. The station (WLKY) was besieged with calls immediately ran a scroll saying that they had no control over this, it was a decision by CBS Sports in NY, and asked fans to direct all anger to a provided phone number and email address. Hard to understand why CBS made this decision (or at least did not leave it to the local market's discretion) but I suspect there were few in this market that were hoping CBS would switch away from the nailbiter UofL-Siena game to either of the other two games.

Roger Bradshaw

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Jim Bendat
Sent: 03/21/2009 3:55 PM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Softball, Big Ten Network rant

Just like the Raiders-Jets "Heidi Game" in 1968.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Maycock <tkmaycock at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Mar 21, 2009 12:34 PM
>To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
>Subject: [NU Sports] Softball, Big Ten Network rant
>
>
>So we're watching the NU-Michigan softball game. It's tied up 5-5 in the sixth, game is going on, and the BTN decides to switch to ... wait for it .... women's gymnastics. I kept waiting for them to realize they had made a mistake and switch back, but at least by the time I gave up, they had not. 
>
>I have no problem with them broadcasting gymnastics, but they weren't even showing competition, just the 3 broadcasting hammerheads yakking about something or other. You couldn't skip that to show us the end of a tied game between the two top-ranked teams in the Big 10? Hello?????
>
>Spoiler alert......
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Fortunatley, NU put a run on the board in the 7th to win the game. But it would have been nice to see it happen rather than read about it on the interwebs. 
>
>Tom
>
>_______________________________________________
>nwu-sports site list
>nwu-sports at tssi.com
>http://romaine.tssi.com/mailman/listinfo/nwu-sports

_______________________________________________
nwu-sports site list
nwu-sports at tssi.com
http://romaine.tssi.com/mailman/listinfo/nwu-sports