On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]>wrote:
> This AP > piece<http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/collegesports/missouri_valley_conference_officials_qhAGqDd3aY4DNXaCi1kWhK#axzz2NBc2raaH>(h/t > NY Post) suggests the Valley game was a time buy by ESPN, and I would > guess CBS policy treats this the same way as, say, a syndicated game on a > local affiliate. The respective schools' hometowns got to see the end. > I don't think the issue is whether CBS had the right to cut to their main game; the point is, it was a stupid thing to do, as it basically was a giant "fuck you" to most of their viewers. Probably more than 90% of the viewers checking out the Michigan game were just college BB fans, not Michigan or Indiana fans. Thus most viewers would have rather seen the end of the MVC game rather than the start of the Michigan game. CBS is trying to convince fans that it cares about NCAA hoops, but this shows the opposite. I suppose they had some kind of contractual obligation to switch to the Big 10 game, but that is just more of the same middle finger. They knowingly set up a situation in which they were going to have to switch out of the end of the first game. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
