[BC] Along the lines of SB coverage

[Robert Meuser]

You're on the eAST cOAST. wHY DO YOU CARE????

DANA PUOPOLO wrote:
> The NFL should worry less about TV coverage of their games and worry more
> about incompetant officials!
> 
> Yesterday's Super Bowl was one of the worst officiated games I ever saw! Pop
> Warner judges could have done a better job then the jokers they used
> yesterday! Did any of you actually see how BAD their rulings were?
> 
> By all rights, Seattle should have won that game. EVERY call went against
> them, most of them piss poor!
> 
> It almost makes me wonder who paid them off to officiate that way.
> 
> Terrible officials who should all be fired!
> 
> -D
> 
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 04:16:17 PM PST
> From: Alan Kline <akline at netins.net>
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Subject: Re: [BC] Along the lines of SB coverage
> 
> My guess is that the NFL doesn't want the early game beginning before 1PM
> EST,
> since that translates to 10AM on the Left Coast.  That being the case,
> they're
> trying to squeeze two games, with all of their commercial and post-game
> bloat,
> into a 6-hour period.  That's barely enough under normal circumstances, but
> if the late game goes to OT, forget it.
> 
> They do try--the late games generally kick on-time, around 4:15 Eastern.  The
> audiences will stay with the early games until their conclusion, except in
> the
> home markets of the teams of the late game(s), in months ending in the letter
> "R", or if one of the late game teams has yellow in their jerseys.  Then,
> it's
> hard to tell.
> 
> For the AFC Championship, CBS *promised* that coverage would conclude by 
> 6:30/5:30 Central, so East and Central stations could do an early local news
> before "60 Minutes".  Our management knew better, and we didn't even try to
> plan
> a newscast.  Our plan was to go back to the network after the game, for the 
> CBS Evening News.
> 
> The game didn't end until after 7:00 Eastern...
> 
> Now, if the prime-time programming is something that CBS *really wants* to
> start
> on time, they get pretty creative.  For the "People's Choice Awards", they
> had
> *three* different versions of "60 Minutes" ready to go, depending on the
> length 
> of football coverage.  There was a 60-minute "60 Minutes", a 45-minute "60
> Minutes",
> and a 30-minute "60 Minutes".  That way, they could get into the award show
> reasonably close to 8PM EST.
> 
> Then, there are the evenings when the late game runs close to the "drop-dead"
> time
> of 7:53:28 EST--after that time, net would fill until 8, drop an hour of
> prime, and
> prime ends on-time.  I've seen NFL coverage run to 7:53:15--and then prime
> runs in
> full, 53 minutes late.
> 
> I don't mind, though--I'll take the overtime any way I can get it...
> 
> And in fairness to the networks, NFL game days must drive them nuts. The
> networks are
> split so many different ways for regional coverage, the NFL contractual rules
> are so
> Byzantine, and it's tough to please everybody all the time.  The only thing
> that's
> more of a nightmare is the first weekend of NCAA "March Madness"...
> 
> ak
> 
> 
> ------ At 10:46 AM 2/6/2006 EST, The Most Honourable Xmitters at aol.com wrote:
> -------
> 
>>Hello:
>>
>>While on the subject of the Superbowl, maybe some of you TV types can answer
> 
> 
>>this. During FB season, CBS is constantly late airing 60 Minutes to the point
> 
> 
>>where I have stopped watching that show. That's OK with me if a game runs
> 
> over 
> 
>>on occasion because of the character of FB, but why does it happen every 
>>bloody Sunday? What is the reason that the game could not start say, 30
> 
> minutes 
> 
>>earlier? Often 60 Minutes is late getting on the air only by 15 to 30
> 
> minutes. 
> 
>>This delay would help a lot.
>>
>>Now is there a legitimate logistical nightmare to starting early, or is it 
>>simply the arrogance of the football franchises not wanting to play nice with
> 
> 
>>the TV networks?
> 
> 
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