Hi everyone. Yes, it's true. Channel 2 is not airing CMA Fest this year. The other ABC affiliates are still airing CMA Fest this year. The reason Channel 2 isn't airing CMA Fest this year is because ESPN1 will be simulcasting the Falcons/Broncos football game on Channel 2. I know the Atlanta Falcons are Atlanta's home football team, but come on, ESPN1 doesn't have to go the extra mile to simulcast a football game on the home team's ABC affiliate. Just air the game only on ESPN1. Yes, I am aware that "ESPN on ABC" used to be ABC Sports. It was back in 2006 that MNF (Monday Night Football) moved from ABC to ESPN, only on ESPN1. My point is if you're going to air MNF on ESPN, air it only on ESPN1. Please don't simulcast it on one of the team's home ABC affiliates. This isn't the days when TV was just analog anymore. We have digital today, and there's also the Internet-only ESPN3 at WatchESPN.com. WatchESPN is also available as an app for your smartphone and tablet PC. WatchESPN is even available on Xbox 360 consoles. Of course, the WatchESPN site isn't the same as it used to be. They used to let you watch games of any sport online for free all the time. Now, that free time is limited to only daytime, overnights, and weekend mornings. The other times they're airing coverage of sports games, you have to have a cable subscription with the participating cable companies, Xfinity being one of those cable companies, so you can log in with your account username and password to watch online. For those of us Atlantans who like country music, our only chance of ever seeing the 2012 CMA Fest will be if GAC (Great American Country) re-airs it at a later date. They re-aired last year's CMA Fest on GAC last year well after ABC aired it. Anyway, that is all for now.
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Channel 2 Not Airing 2012 CMA Fest: Country's Night to Rock This Year
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Where do you think channel 2 will make more money? Airing a lame excuse for wanna be country singers to prove they are not country, or airing a sports team with a tremendous following in Atlanta?
AMFMRadFan said:Hi everyone. Yes, it's true. Channel 2 is not airing CMA Fest this year. The other ABC affiliates are still airing CMA Fest this year. The reason Channel 2 isn't airing CMA Fest this year is because ESPN1 will be simulcasting the Falcons/Broncos football game on Channel 2. I know the Atlanta Falcons are Atlanta's home football team, but come on, ESPN1 doesn't have to go the extra mile to simulcast a football game on the home team's ABC affiliate. Just air the game only on ESPN1. Yes, I am aware that "ESPN on ABC" used to be ABC Sports. It was back in 2006 that MNF (Monday Night Football) moved from ABC to ESPN, only on ESPN1. My point is if you're going to air MNF on ESPN, air it only on ESPN1. Please don't simulcast it on one of the team's home ABC affiliates. This isn't the days when TV was just analog anymore. We have digital today, and there's also the Internet-only ESPN3 at WatchESPN.com. WatchESPN is also available as an app for your smartphone and tablet PC. WatchESPN is even available on Xbox 360 consoles. Of course, the WatchESPN site isn't the same as it used to be. They used to let you watch games of any sport online for free all the time. Now, that free time is limited to only daytime, overnights, and weekend mornings. The other times they're airing coverage of sports games, you have to have a cable subscription with the participating cable companies, Xfinity being one of those cable companies, so you can log in with your account username and password to watch online. For those of us Atlantans who like country music, our only chance of ever seeing the 2012 CMA Fest will be if GAC (Great American Country) re-airs it at a later date. They re-aired last year's CMA Fest on GAC last year well after ABC aired it. Anyway, that is all for now.
Is the game being simulcast on Denver's ABC affiliate, KMGH, as well?
bpatrick, to answer your question, I checked the listings online for ABC affiliate KMGH, and it turns out they're still going to air CMA Fest. Here's something odd in the Denver market. The MNT (MyNetworkTV) affiliate KTVD will be airing coverage of the Falcons/Broncos game. MNT is owned by FOX, not ABC. Now KTVD itself is owned by Gannett, the same people who own NBC affiliate KUSA along with our 2 stations back home here in the Atlanta market: 11 Alive (NBC) WXIA and MyATLTV (MyNetworkTV) WATL 36.
The NFL's broadcast policy dictates that any cable broadcast of their games (whether it be on ESPN or NFL Network) must be simulcast on over-the-air TV in the participating team's home markets (or in the case of the Packers, their games are also simulcast on Milwaukee OTA TV, and in Manchester, NH, in the case of the New England Patriots). The local stations in the home markets have the right to bid on the games, and in this case, WSB paid for the right to carry the Broncos-Falcons game for the Atlanta market, as did as KTVD in Denver.
Hearst is a part-owner in ESPN, and usually their TV stations have the first right of refusual in carrying Monday Night Football (and some the Hearst stations do take advantage of that, such as WISN in Milwaukee, and I believe even KMBC in Kansas City does as well; Baltimore's WBAL passed on last week's Bengals-Ravens game, instead the game was on CBS O&O WJZ). NFL games on TV are virtually guaranteed money and ratings winners, and for WSB, they'll probably make more in ad revenue carrying tonight's game than the CMA special.
The CMA Fest will air on WSB on the afternoon of September 23rd, at 12:30pm; I at least would have though that they could shifted the CMA Fest to its Me-TV subchannel, but I guess ABC wouldn't allow it.
Hearst is a part-owner in ESPN, and usually their TV stations have the first right of refusual in carrying Monday Night Football (and some the Hearst stations do take advantage of that, such as WISN in Milwaukee, and I believe even KMBC in Kansas City does as well; Baltimore's WBAL passed on last week's Bengals-Ravens game, instead the game was on CBS O&O WJZ). NFL games on TV are virtually guaranteed money and ratings winners, and for WSB, they'll probably make more in ad revenue carrying tonight's game than the CMA special.
The CMA Fest will air on WSB on the afternoon of September 23rd, at 12:30pm; I at least would have though that they could shifted the CMA Fest to its Me-TV subchannel, but I guess ABC wouldn't allow it.
Bengalsfan said:...... or airing a sports team with a tremendous following in Atlanta?
Let's not be making crazy, unsubstantiated, and mostly untrue statements here . . . . .
Atlanta's lack of support for local pro sports teams is legendary.
But still likely better ratings for the game than country music 'fan appreciation' activities. Atlanta no longer has the country music luvin' audience that it once had.
Kilbasa123 said:Bengalsfan said:...... or airing a sports team with a tremendous following in Atlanta?
Let's not be making crazy, unsubstantiated, and mostly untrue statements here . . . . .
Atlanta's lack of support for local pro sports teams is legendary.
But still likely better ratings for the game than country music 'fan appreciation' activities. Atlanta no longer has the country music luvin' audience that it once had.
Yep, numerous aspects are trying their damnedest to divorce themselves from the Southern traditions of many things.
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