Pat Cook said:
CNN and Sports Illustrated tried CNN-SI a few years back -- it lasted about six years before folding in 2002:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN_Sports_Illustrated
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TBS, TNT, truTV, CBS - NCAA March Madness
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CNN and Sports Illustrated tried CNN-SI a few years back -- it lasted about six years before folding in 2002:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN_Sports_Illustrated
I still can't believe Time Warner Cable hasn't given us in Upstate NY truTV in HD. The parent company of Time Warner Cable owns truTV so how hard is it to get HD. Up until now there really hasn't been a reason to have them in HD, since most of the programming they run is older 4:3 content anyways. But now we have Syracuse playing on truTV and as of now I only get in in SD. Hopefully Time Warner will get some complaints and add it before Friday.
Anybody else find it weird that truTV now has sports. The other Turner networks have had sports before. TNT has had NBA games for years, and TBS's involvement in sports dates back to its Superstation days when it was WTBS. With their recent comedy rebranding I would have thought they wanted to get out of sports. And then you have truTV which seems like it would be the last place for live sports.
Anybody else find it weird that truTV now has sports. The other Turner networks have had sports before. TNT has had NBA games for years, and TBS's involvement in sports dates back to its Superstation days when it was WTBS. With their recent comedy rebranding I would have thought they wanted to get out of sports. And then you have truTV which seems like it would be the last place for live sports.
Pat Cook said:What gets me is why CBS College Sports isn't being used while TruTV is.....
I don't like the fact that they're tying up TruTV to carry something that's TOTALLY out of its genre (In fact, sports BARELY fits TNT's genre IMO)
I think CBS College Sports MUST have a share in some of the games broadcast IMO.....
TNT airs the NBA they also still air racing and golf if I am correct.
I also agree CBS College Sports should air games but then again they don't reach as many homes.
Now on the first night I notice different graphics. Very different from the normal CBS Sports graphics. The scoreboard graphic looks great. Was surprise to see a mic with the truTV logo on it. Thought it just be a regular CBS logo mic. Another surprise hearing Jim Natz reading a promo for www.cnn.com about going to the website to help Japan.
This is not true. Time Warner Cable was spun off into an independent company a few years ago.spunker88 said:
spunker88 said:
TBS is an interesting place for sports. It's a cable network, but since cablers haven't bothered to move it up from its prime TBS Superstation positions in most places nationwide, it's on a basic cable tier that really only has the major networks and WGN America, which itself is a sports bastion.
CBS could have started their own cable channels ten years ago if they wanted to. Now, they are paying a price for not having a suitable cable outlet sooner. Showtime is a premium network, so it would have been awkward to put the major sports properties there. It's a bit funny that one of the few things that NBC got right was buying up cable channels, when the Tiffany Network thought they would never need them. There wasn't even that much cooperation (save for that infamous Super Bowl halftime show) when CBS was twinned up with Viacom.
It was simply a case of either partner up with Turner Sports, and all that entails with them, or ESPN gets another major sports property, thus confirming even more their dominance in the sports cable market.
Having said all that, I am curious to know how truTV did in ratings compared to what was airing on ESPN during the 9:30-12:00 time period. ;D
It was simply a case of either partner up with Turner Sports, and all that entails with them, or ESPN gets another major sports property, thus confirming even more their dominance in the sports cable market.
Having said all that, I am curious to know how truTV did in ratings compared to what was airing on ESPN during the 9:30-12:00 time period. ;D
DToTheJ said:Am I the only one that remembers the now-defunct CBS Cable Network from the late 1980's? :
Actually a little earlier than that--CBS Cable ceased operations in December 1982 after being in existence only 14 months (since October 1981).
And I almost forgot--anyone remember CBS Eye on People (1997-98), later Discovery People?
I wonder if the memories of these failures have influenced CBS's reluctance to re-enter the cable fray as one other poster suggested?
Tim from Springfield said:DToTheJ said:Am I the only one that remembers the now-defunct CBS Cable Network from the late 1980's? :
Actually a little earlier than that--CBS Cable ceased operations in December 1982 after being in existence only 14 months (since October 1981).
And I almost forgot--anyone remember CBS Eye on People (1997-98), later Discovery People?
I wonder if the memories of these failures have influenced CBS's reluctance to re-enter the cable fray as one other poster suggested?
CBS Eye on People and Telenoticias, its Latin American news channel, together lost $9 million in the first quarter of 1998. They sold half of Eye on People to Discovery and much of Telenoticias to a Mexican concern. Discovery took full control of Eye on People then used its channel slot; Telenoticias headed for a Chapter 11 in 1999.
With the complete March Madness on CBS , TBS, TNT, and truTV, this could be interesting if CBS decides to bid for the Olympics broadcasting rights once again (the 1992, '94, and '98 Winter Games were on CBS and TNT).
spunker88 said:
Time Warner Cable in Maine has added it on Ch. 793
johnnya2k6 said:
Actually, you're right; that'd be a partnership to fire back up. But for an Olympics, especially a summer Olympics, Turner'd need HLN, Cartoon Network, and whatever else they have. CNN really can't be touched except for perhaps a sports report (hey, it'd be better rated than some of their primetime shows).
Also consider the increasing cost of Olympics rights. There are only three parties now that can do the Olympics effectively from a channel space view: CBS/Turner, ABC/ESPN (but they'd need a couple more, I think), and NBC/Comcast (for 2012, I think some formerly-Olympic channels will not be running it because of a larger channel pool – they have Versus, the Golf Channel, etc.). That is, if they were staunchly against any form of Internet streaming.
Well, it seems as if a lot of people managed to find truTV, if this article is any indication:
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...ivision-i-men’s-basketball-championship/86041
Oh, and the TWC in NYC has added truTV in HD on Ch. 779
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...ivision-i-men’s-basketball-championship/86041
Oh, and the TWC in NYC has added truTV in HD on Ch. 779
I'm watching The NCAA right now, and apparently The graphics package mirrors out on all four channels(CBS, TBS, TNT & TruTV), and The NCAA courts are all identical in each arena the games are played in. CBS and Turner Sports have also pulled in their own resources to bring out the coverage, so you could image watching People like Verne Lundquist on TBS, or Ernie Johnson & Sir Charles Barkley working for CBS.
Troy Goodwin said:
The Northern Colorado/SDSU game appears to be called by the TNT NBA commentators.
The package is nice, but what isn't (and never was, coming from a market where the CBS multicasted March Madness for about five, six years) is the repetition of commercials. In the first year KPHO did this, Applebee's had this commercial with two men singing underwater about some shrimp special. It was hard to efface from one's memory.
Right now, of all things, CBS is running The Price is Right. Because the local window on CBS is 5-7ET live, I could see KPHO putting its newscasts on a subchannel or on another station (but since Phoenix tends to be irrational, they will just air "CBS 5 News at 3" anyways, methinks).
Will any stations decide to pre-empt the games for their own news and regular daytime programming if they don't a get a local team?
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nomadcowatbk said:
Absolutely not.
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