[BC] Along the lines of SB coverage

[Alan Kline]

------ At 07:33 PM 2/6/2006 -0500, The Most Honourable Scott Fybush wrote: -------
>The worst of it, from the looks of it, are the situations when Fox has 
>an East Coast local team's game at 4, which means the CBS affiliate in 
>town can only run one game that day, at 1, and must leave the network 
>after the 1 PM game and fill locally until 7.
>
>That, in turn, means that even if every other market in the east is 
>getting prime time delayed by as much as 53 minutes, the network still 
>has to provide a "regular" feed for what could be as few as one or two 
>markets. (I think.)

Ah, yes...I forgot about that.  CBS has done two, or even three different
primetime feeds for the New York origination--SD only.  They say they only
have facilities to do one HD feed, so stations not lucky enough to be on
the mini-net that gets the live HD prime feed have to record and turn an
overnight pre-feed of the HD programming--or, upconvert the SD to the 
DTV signal.

I don't envy the guys in Distribution on a football Sunday...

ak