[NU Sports] Softball, Big Ten Network rant

[Sportsbiz]

What made it worse is that the game was supposed to be a "no-takeaway" game
in the local market as all Louisville games are.  That means that CBS is
permitted to do updates during timeouts only and is not allowed to switch
away from the game during game action to any other game for any other
reason.  Apparently, somebody in New York didn't get the message.
Mark

Mark S. Ament
sportsbiz at gmail.com
SportsBiz - The Business of Sports
Illuminated<http://thesportsbizblog.blogspot.com>
When it comes to sports, you know it's all about the money
Stay tuned for the exciting new SportsBiz coming your way soon


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Roger Bradshaw <bradshawrd at insightbb.com>wrote:

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