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The Sports Overruns and Pre-emptions Thread

anotherguyTN

anotherguyTN

I meant to start this thread earlier but am just getting to it, so I'll go with a couple of things I ran into:

The Texas A&M/Arkansas football game on CBS ran over by about 15 minutes but the postgame show ran to 7:30 ET, so that pre-empted scheduled local programming at 7 PM. Once again CBS should have scheduled the broadcast at least until 7:30. This also happened last week and will probably happen more until football season is over.

I also ran into problems in trying to watch the Memphis/Texas San Antonio game on ESPNU. They had technical problems both on Spectrum cable and on the ESPN app through the entire game and didn't come back until near the end of the game, which UTSA won on the last play.

Feel free to add to this thread.
 
Bloated college football games have been a problem for at least a decade, but since at least part of the reason for the bloat is increased demand (and availabilities) for advertising, the networks have no reason to feel any sympathy for the affiliates or the non-sports-fan viewers.
 
Sympathy and business seldom go together. :)

But the advertiser demand benefits affiliates, so there's no sympathy needed. And as someone who can count the number of times I watch sports annually on one hand, with plenty of digits left over, I don't need sympathy. I go on with life just fine.
 
The affiliates are getting better local selling opportunities than with other filler material. Heck of a lot easier to sell a local football package than junk. It’s a two way relationship. No one gets everything.
 
Don CT said:
What local ad inventory is there on the weekends for affiliates. If there is no national content most of them are just running infomercials. Who is tuning in to infomercials.
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I meant what the affiliates are running during their allocated advertising breaks during the network college football games, not the infomercials they run when they think they can make more money doing that than showing whatever the network is sending down the line. No affiliate is going to turn down Alabama-Georgia on CBS and run colon cleanser garbage instead. And the affiliates sell advertising on weekends that is earmarked for college football. So you're saying that if Alabama-Georgia is bloated to 4 1/2 hours by timeouts or overtime or both that the local stations would have nothing to put in the additional ad breaks they'd get? Highly unlikely, it would seem to me.
 
ESPN News gets its first partial College Football game of the season with Indiana vs Penn State, the Prime time ABC Game. This due to the Oregon vs. Stanford game going overtime.
 
The Georgia/Auburn game on CBS actually ended at 7 PM ET, and the post game show was only over by 15 minutes,and they went to local programming. But it still would make sense to schedule the post game show to 7:30 and not be pre-empting local programming almost every weekend. Also, since they were going to the Alabama/Texas A&M game at 8 PM anyway they should have stayed on the network.
 
anotherguyTN said:
The Georgia/Auburn game on CBS actually ended at 7 PM ET, and the post game show was only over by 15 minutes,and they went to local programming. But it still would make sense to schedule the post game show to 7:30 and not be pre-empting local programming almost every weekend. Also, since they were going to the Alabama/Texas A&M game at 8 PM anyway they should have stayed on the network.
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I wonder if the locals won’t give up the time to CBS.
 
in Dallas, due to severe weather coverage, parts of Sunday Night Football was seen in split screen with weather coverage from KXAS NBC 5 due to the severe weather outbreak, and on top of that, i'm sure the game was not seen in Oklahoma City as KFOR has their severe weather coverage and as well as KJRH in Tulsa, KTEN in Ada, OK/Sherman, TX and other NBC affiliates in the states hit hardest by Sunday Night's severe weather outbreak.

also the same storm system responsible for Texas & Oklahoma's severe weather outbreak also delayed the start of the second half when non-severe storms hit.
 
Don CT said:
The game itself was delayed for over an hour due to weather.
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I normally tune into Sunday Night Football, but I was held up for a few hours, and so I was surprised that when I tuned in at 9:30 MDT (11:30 EDT) that the game was still ongoing thanks to that weather delay.
Will_H_69_9 said:
in Dallas, due to severe weather coverage, parts of Sunday Night Football was seen in split screen with weather coverage from KXAS NBC 5 due to the severe weather outbreak, and on top of that, i'm sure the game was not seen in Oklahoma City as KFOR has their severe weather coverage and as well as KJRH in Tulsa, KTEN in Ada, OK/Sherman, TX and other NBC affiliates in the states hit hardest by Sunday Night's severe weather outbreak.

also the same storm system responsible for Texas & Oklahoma's severe weather outbreak also delayed the start of the second half when non-severe storms hit.
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Wasn't this also tried in 2019, with some grumbles?
 
ZantennaG1 said:
I normally tune into Sunday Night Football, but I was held up for a few hours, and so I was surprised that when I tuned in at 9:30 MDT (11:30 EDT) that the game was still ongoing thanks to that weather delay.

Wasn't this also tried in 2019, with some grumbles?
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yes, October 2019 North Dallas Tornado to be exact, the storm system hit during a Cowboys/Eagles game, which was a home game for the Cowboys, had it hit Arlington, the storm would caused a delay due to Stadium in tornado's path.

i was listening to WBAP's coverage last night and Brad Barton compared last night's storms to the October 2019 tornado outbreak and said that the tornado outbreak 2 years ago occurred on a Sunday night and during a Cowboys game saved a lots of lives were saved, compare to had it been on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday.
 
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