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CFP Championship Game not on the radio in the Bay Area

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Question: Why was the CFP Championship game (Alabama-Clemson) not on the radio in the Bay Area? KNBR-1050 had the pre-game on 'live' and then abruptly pulled the plug at 5:15 pm just as they were shifting to play-by-play for the start of the game. I had to catch the game on a Fresno station until I made it home.

I've also noticed that local Redbox Bowl was not carried on local radio. One of the Wildcard NFL Playoff games was not carried. What's up with all this? I assume this is all about contracts...KNBR carries CBS, KGMZ carries ESPN. Still, the CFP game was a real headscratcher.
 
CTListener said:
I heard it on WUCS Hartford (97.9 ESPN), but the feed was indeed produced by Westwood One, as the announcers constantly told us. I don't think there's anything preventing Westwood One content from showing up on an ESPN Radio affiliate -- Sunday and Monday Night Football are carried on this station every week.
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Westwood One did not have the BCS Championship game. It was definitely ESPN Radio, with Sean McDonough and Todd Blackledge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Football_Playoff_National_Championship
 
TheBigA said:
Westwood One did not have the BCS Championship game. It was definitely ESPN Radio, with Sean McDonough and Todd Blackledge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Football_Playoff_National_Championship
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So says Wikipedia ...

OK, it's probable that i confused the championship game with one of the many Westwood one events carried on our local ESPN affiliate. The mystery of the Bay Area's CFP title game shutout continues. Maybe just not a strong market for college football?
 
KeithE4 said:
With 2 Pac-12 schools in the Bay Area, I doubt that seriously.
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The Bay Area doesn't consider it's self to be a good market for college football, most of the interest in Cal and Stanford comes from alumni. The game was an ESPN radio property, I listened to it on the same Fresno station adradio did, 940 ESPN (KFIG).

That's why I'm curious what KGMZ, was playing instead, was a Warrior game going on at the same time?
 
No Warrior game that night, and I wasn't listening on the radio, so the mystery continues. (I streamed the ESPN radio coverage, figuring I could stomach another Alabama-Clemson game if I didn't have to look at it. Between those two owning the college game and the Patriots turning thee NFL into a joke, I've lost a lot of my interest in football over the last few years).
Also, The Bay Area is indeed considered a terrible college football market, and it's been that way for decades, at least since the Raiders of the '70s and 49ers of the '80s and '90s won over the fans.
 
onairb2014 said:
No Warrior game that night, and I wasn't listening on the radio, so the mystery continues. (I streamed the ESPN radio coverage, figuring I could stomach another Alabama-Clemson game if I didn't have to look at it. Between those two owning the college game and the Patriots turning thee NFL into a joke, I've lost a lot of my interest in football over the last few years).
Also, The Bay Area is indeed considered a terrible college football market, and it's been that way for decades, at least since the Raiders of the '70s and 49ers of the '80s and '90s won over the fans.
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Then it could be that management opted out of a game featuring two teams from the South and took the ESPN Radio filler feed of sports talk. Did ESPN offer such a feed, though, on the night of the championship game?

Patriots fan -- since the early '70s, not a bandwagoner -- here. How exactly have they turned "thee NFL" (Shouldn't that be "ye NFL"?) into a "joke"?
 
CTListener said:
Then it could be that management opted out of a game featuring two teams from the South and took the ESPN Radio filler feed of sports talk. Did ESPN offer such a feed, though, on the night of the championship game?
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I think they have a feed of ESPN podcasts, I've heard that on 940 during games they didn't air in Fresno.
 
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