As far as an sports event switching channels, i remember when ABC was
committed to the Kentucky Derby one year and the Busch race which was the
Auto Club 300 was still in progress. So ABC started their Derby pre-race
show, while ESPN carried the Busch race to its conclusion. In fact, ESPN
The NFL is pretty strict about the away market seeing the home teams game
in full- years ago, NBC gave up a game between San Diego and Kansas City to
CBS- so it could show its network news followed by a
World Series game, where as CBS could show it the Chargers-Chiefs game(and
it resulted in a
I think the rule is correct. Imagine the furor if FOX had stayed with the
Panthers-Saints game, and it went into overtime instead of cutting to the
Cowboys game in Dallas? there would complaints to no end in Dallas or what
if FOX had stuck with Raiders-Saints the first week instead of cutting
Watching the Panthers/Saints game i noted that FOX warned viewers in the
home markets of the late games that they owuld be cutting away from the
Panthers/Saints game soon(didn't happen here as we are in the Panthers home
market). I've never heard the in-game announcers metion that- NBC used to
It happens with college football too: Today, ABC had to start the
Nebraska-Indiana game on ESPN2 and the North Carolina-Miami game on ESPNU
because the NC State-Clemson game went into OT.
With the NFL, the networks are required to show the home team's game in its
entirety. However they can
TBS/TNT did the same thing last year for Mets/Dodgers in the NLDS.
-Stan
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daniel anderson wrote:
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> FOX has been using MLB Network when the first game runs late to cover the
> second game(FOX announcers and graphics) once the frist game is over, they
> move the second game to FS1
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Better than nothing, right? B
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TBS has been using TNT for ALDS-they've had a few runovers too.
On Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 9:43:46 PM UTC-4, daniel anderson wrote:
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> FOX has been using MLB Network when the first game runs late to cover the
> second game(FOX announcers and graphics) once the frist game is over, they
>
