Coverage Maps for October 11
ABC, ESPN and the Big Ten Network have released coverage maps for the regional games his coming weekend. ABC and ESPN will repeat their reverse mirror coverage again this week for the 3:30 game and Big Ten wil regionally broadcast the 12 PM game on their networks.
At 3:30 ABC will broadcast three college football games. Two of these games will be available in high definition. One of these games will be available to you. Despite advertising full high definition coverage of college football this year, only two of the three games that ABC is broadcasting will be in high definition. Hopefully the one being broadcast in your area is in HD. Be sure to check the map below to see which game is available in HD in your area.
Also at 3:30 ESPN will broadcast a college game which will reverse mirror the one airing on ABC, meaning no one will receive the same game on both ABC and ESPN. Check the ESPN Map to see which game is to be shown to them. Note, however, that only one game is being broadcast in HD.
Finally, Big Ten has released their map for their noon coverage of NCAA Football. They will be broadcasting two games in high definition, so be sure to check the map below to see which one you’re getting.
ABC Coverage Maps
ESPN Coverage Maps
Big Ten Coverage Map
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October 8th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Someone please explain to me the purpose of the HD only blackout.
October 8th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Because of the reverse mirror, Zap. Only of one the feeds can be in HD due to limited bandwidth.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:39 am
BS…people in the Indianapolis area have to stomach Purdue vs. Ohio St. on ABC in HD, instead of ND vs. UNC. I bet more people here would rather watch ND than Purdue. Now I have to watch crappy SD on ESPN for ND.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Purdue is in West Lafayette, which gets its ABC from Indianapolis. That’s why central Indiana will see the Boilermakers on WRTV-6 and the Fighting Irish on ESPN.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Can someone tell me this, does ESPN HD and ESPN show two differnt games? Same with ABC HD and ABC? I am in Texas and want to see the ND game? Will I need to get gameplan this weekend?
October 9th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I know that West Lafayette has RTV 6. I know ratings would be higher for ND in Indy than Purdue.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
In-market school trumps ratings. ABC has been close to the Big Ten for over 40 years.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
no Michael the ESPN SD and ESPN HD game are always the same, just the out of market game will only be on ESPN SD only and blacked out on ESPN HD because ABC HD is using the HD feed.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
ABC SD and ABC HD show the same game too Michael.
Almost every HD channel is a direct simulcast of its SD channel.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I’m not a bandwidth expert, but the explanation that ESPN doesn’t have enough bandwidth doesn’t make sense to me.
When a game is blacked-out on ESPN-HD they show ESPN-News-HD on ESPN-HD (or maybe that just what what my cable provider does). Why don’t / couldn’t they black-out ESPN-News-HD (or classic-HD or U-HD) instead of ESPN-HD during games?
October 9th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
thats something your provider does to fill in the gaps during games. Comcast doesn’t; out of market games are blacked out on ESPN HD / ESPN2 HD when there’s an in-market game on ABC HD. Also we have ESPNews SD full time and Comcast still hasn’t reached a carriage agreement with ESPU.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
My friend at Columbia says Notre Dame-UNC is on both channels (ESPN & ABC) in New York City. Can somebody please verify this?
October 12th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Texas-Oklahoma was running late. ESPN showed the start of ND-UNC, then switched to Purdue-Ohio State once the Red River Shootout ended. ABC joined ND-UNC after a NASCAR promo and a 5-second station break.
When Purdue-OSU was over ABC switched that network to ND-UNC. Same for Arizona State-USC.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
ESPN decided to block out the Purdue-Ohio State game and not show it at all (not even on another channel or even Gameplan). I live in Chicago and they decided to show Notre Dumb once again. I’m sick and tired of ND getting higher priority over any other Big Ten game. I was ticked off!!!!!!!! Thanks for nothing eSPIN.