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U.K. Wildcats Basketball on TV

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Cincinnati Kid

What kind of live local TV coverage of University of Kentucky basketball games was there in Lexington and Louisville in the 1950's, 1960's and even into the early 1970's? I thought there may have been some delayed coverage yet knowing the Wildcats sold out the U. K. Coliseum for home contests, I question why delay it. Of course, there were also road games although doing remote TV from some locations in Southeastern Conference cities in years past may have not been the easiest thing to do. You always hear of the Wildcats on radio with fans listening to either Kaywood Ledford or Claude Sullivan. I just wondered about live TV coverage in that time.
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
What kind of live local TV coverage of University of Kentucky basketball games was there in Lexington and Louisville in the 1950's, 1960's and even into the early 1970's? I thought there may have been some delayed coverage yet knowing the Wildcats sold out the U. K. Coliseum for home contests, I question why delay it. Of course, there were also road games although doing remote TV from some locations in Southeastern Conference cities in years past may have not been the easiest thing to do. You always hear of the Wildcats on radio with fans listening to either Kaywood Ledford or Claude Sullivan. I just wondered about live TV coverage in that time.
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WLEX was the UK station until the early seventies. Garvis Kincaid purchased WKYT from Taft and poured money into the operations. Channel 27 acquired UK programming around 1973. I don't remember how game coverage was handled in the early seventies but by later in the decade Kentucky Central Television commissioned a mobile production studio be built inside a semi-trailer. "The Million Dollar Baby" was used for UK coverage not picked up by regional or national networks.

The time delay was due to two factors, blackout and/or to overcome technical shortcomings if a live feed to the station wasn't available or cost prohibitive.

Spelling correction, it's Cawood.
 
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