Comments on: ABC/ESPN Regional Map for October 17

By: wojacks

wojacks — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:33:01 +0000

Do we have a map for 10-24-09 as of yet? Need to see if ABC West Coast is airing Texas vs Mizzou at 6pm PST??? Thanks. And do they just make these hard to find so you’ll buy gameplan, me thinks yes.

By: Hymie

Hymie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:46:27 +0000

Rah, rah, sis, boom, bah–go TDJ.

By: RSR

RSR — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:00:25 +0000

@cdmcg: yeah, that’s bad too. I knew that was coming for certain viewers…that they would get ‘downgraded’ as some sort of homage to local broadcast windows.

I totally get regional broadcast rights, and commercial interests and so on. Give us access to the HD broadcasts, even if by subscription or PPV, and a lot of this discussion goes away.

Broadcast rights have barely caught up with technology that enables nationwide transmission. Now we have the HD aspect, which broadcasters are even further behind on delivering due to broadcast rights inertia.

It’s just frustrating that it’s legal and contractual hurdles, not the technology, that’s holding it back. All these games are already produced in HD and available to all the providers. Find a way to sell them to me!!!

By: cdmcg

cdmcg — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:35:58 +0000

At least they didnt dangle the hd broadcast of the game you want to watch and once the ok v texas game ends the black out the signal. I dont get why they were broadcasting the husker game in florida in hd and then shut it off.

By: RSR

RSR — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:34:08 +0000

great…so the noon game runs long, ABC runs a promo saying you can find your 3:30 game on x,y,z, but it’s still blacked out by directv!

By: RSR

RSR — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:09:12 +0000

I don’t really care which games the Mouse decides (is contractually obligated) to show where. What I want is access to the other games in HD. I’d be willing to pay for that–probably.

Snow in Happy Valley might make the Penn State game more enticing.

By: ron

ron — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:47:33 +0000

nobody is jealous of the big ten, its just that te big ten simpliy isnt as good as the acc or even the miserable Big East, let alon the SEC or BIG 12

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:41:33 +0000

It’s incredible how jealous people are of the Big Ten. At least it’s not the ACC.

Go Gophers!

By: Tim A.

Tim A. — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:19:09 +0000

It is really frustrating to always (F-ing ALWAYS) have to have the f-ing little 10 shoved down my throat. What in the f**k makes ESPN think us on the West Coast give a rodent’s back side about Penn State and Minn? Come on… I thought it was supposed to be split regional coverage. Just in case ESPN doesn’t know how to read a map, Nebraska and Texas are both farther west than Penn and Minn (okay, most of Nebraska is farther west than most of Minn). Why in the f**k do they think we want to watch another boring little 10 game? That conference has been largley insignificant for the last 50 years. Come on ESPN, get your collective heads out of your collective a$$es, and show us a game of interest. That Shefiled kid throws for about a million yards a game and Suh at Nebraska is probably the best player in college football right now. So T-Tech v Nebraska is the far better match-up this week. ESPN…once again…YOU SUCK!!!!!!

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:01:49 +0000

the amount complaining on this website every week is astonishing. the fact that most of it is based on completely wrong assumptions is just more staggering.

1. there is no 8 PM game on ABC this week because the #1 ABC team (Herbstreit and Musburger) will be doing the noon game nationally. That game is always played at noon every year, and they wont move it for ABC (good for the Red River Shootout!). So ABC gives in and changes it up and has a nationally televised game at noon eastern (not what ABC would want at all). It has nothing to do with Nascar.

2. what game would you like to have on in NY?? 2 unranked PAC-10 teams (yeah lots of demand for that in NY)?? middle of the road and bottom of the pack ACC teams facing off?? those games are junk!! Penn St and Minn are by far the best 2 teams playing out of all 8 that ABC has at 3:30, much less the best game that will be played. You could be stuck with a lot worse. and yes, there are more Penn St fans in NY than any of those other teams, get over it. The Big 10 is crap, but wait until you’re stuck watching the ACC like we are in New England. Then you’ll see really crappy.

ohh and thanks to the website for the all info. It was impossible to find week in and week out until this site came around.