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Delayed/incomplete sporting events

Going back to an earlier comment regarding locally-televised NBA games being aired on tape-delay...

It really wasn't too uncommon, and in particular the teams based in the Mountain and Pacific time zones, that those games aired on tape-delay, especially if one of those were playing a team from the Eastern time zone.

I can attest that in Los Angeles, that both the Lakers and Clippers (to a smaller extent, since they didn't start televising all 82 regular-season games annually until 2009) did tape-delay weeknight Eastern road games, but would air live if it was a Saturday/Sunday contest, regardless of the daypart. With the Lakers, because of the Chick Hearn radio-TV simulcast, the broadcast was also delayed on radio. I can't remember the particular year, but KLAC-AM (the Laker radio flagship from 1977 to 2009) started airing all of the games live, but KCAL (the then-TV flagship, '77 to 2012) would still delay certain games but eventually started airing every game live that was on their schedule. Once we entered the Internet age, and especially with all of the league game packages at people's disposal, you couldn't no longer get away airing games on tape-delay, at least with the sports that really most to many.
 
KHJ/KCAL-9 probably put East Coast away games of the Los Angeles Lakers on a tape delay basis to put the games on in local prime time (with, I'd guess, an airtime of 7, 7:30, or 8 P.M. PST) instead of airing live at 4, 4:30, or 5 P.M. PST, when many fans would still be at work or coming home from work.

On the other hand, some people might not have tuned in if they had watched a local 6 P.M. PST local newscast and wound up seeing/hearing something like this in a sports report: "The Lakers are literally getting killed in Boston tonight, trailing the Celtics 99-58 after three quarters. Lakers star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar fouled out late in the third quarter....".

But if viewers heard on that 6 p.m. PST local newscast: "After three quarters in Boston, the Lakers have a 99-58 lead over the Celtics, with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar having scored 36 points so far...", viewers might have tuned in Channel 9 when the showing of the taped game began.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
KHJ/KCAL-9 probably put East Coast away games of the Los Angeles Lakers on a tape delay basis to put the games on in local prime time (with, I'd guess, an airtime of 7, 7:30, or 8 P.M. PST) instead of airing live at 4, 4:30, or 5 P.M. PST, when many fans would still be at work or coming home from work.

On the other hand, some people might not have tuned in if they had watched a local 6 P.M. PST local newscast and wound up seeing/hearing something like this in a sports report: "The Lakers are literally getting killed in Boston tonight, trailing the Celtics 99-58 after three quarters. Lakers star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar fouled out late in the third quarter....".

But if viewers heard on that 6 p.m. PST local newscast: "After three quarters in Boston, the Lakers have a 99-58 lead over the Celtics, with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar having scored 36 points so far...", viewers might have tuned in Channel 9 when the showing of the taped game began.
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At least until they started airing all of their games live, Channel 9's tape-delayed Laker telecasts that originated from the Eastern time zone began airing no later than 6pm, Los Angeles time. If I remember correctly, the only times that they would have forced to air a game live was if a NBA cable partner also airing that same game live coast-to-coast (even if said cable partner had its feed blacked-out in the local market during the game).
 
nomadcowatbk said:
the 1980 Miracle on Ice aired on tape delay, and pre-empted by church in Memphis
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The Friday night medal-round game against the USSR was on a 3 1/2-hour delay on ABC (and slightly edited at that). As far as I know, it aired on every ABC affiliate.

The Sunday game against Finland for the gold medal was an added telecast by ABC, at 10 a.m. CT, and the Memphis station, WHBQ, didn't try to get out of its contract for some paid religion.

GM Alex Bonner to the Memphis Commercial Appeal: "ABC has carried hours and hours of Olympic coverage, so we just felt like we should carry the church program. It's a situation where we can't win either way. I'm sure we'll be getting some more complaints from our Olympic viewers, but we'd also get some from our Baptist viewers if we didn't carry the church service."

No Memphis station affiliated with various ABC Radio networks carried that special coverage either.
 
I would have told them that if they carried the church service they risked losing their affiliation. O have the game moved to 1pm EST/12PM CST.
 
danderson6500 said:
I would have told them that if they carried the church service they risked losing their affiliation. O have the game moved to 1pm EST/12PM CST.
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ABC tried to have the U.S.-USSR game switched with Sweden-Finland (the other Friday medal-round game) and the IOC said no. They would have said no again, and just delaying both games two hours wouldn't have worked, because the closing ceremony was in the Olympic Ice Center that evening.
 
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