Comments on: Coverage Maps for October 11

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:23:59 +0000

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.

By: Chucky

Chucky — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:14:55 +0000

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.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:46:59 +0000

My friend at Columbia says Notre Dame-UNC is on both channels (ESPN & ABC) in New York City. Can somebody please verify this?

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:51:32 +0000

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.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:52:35 +0000

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?

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:43:56 +0000

ABC SD and ABC HD show the same game too Michael.
Almost every HD channel is a direct simulcast of its SD channel.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:37:25 +0000

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.

By: Chucky

Chucky — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:54:37 +0000

In-market school trumps ratings. ABC has been close to the Big Ten for over 40 years.

By: Ty

Ty — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:24:22 +0000

I know that West Lafayette has RTV 6. I know ratings would be higher for ND in Indy than Purdue.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:24:19 +0000

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?