US Open Men's Final not broadcast locally?

[OhioMediaWatch]

Cleveland market CBS affiliate WOIO/19 also bumped the tennis match...to digital subchannel 19.2, aka "WeatherNow". For whatever reason (more syndicated premieres?), it did NOT move it to sister MyNetwork TV affiliate WUAB/43, a full power analog and digital station with wide coverage.

I'm just guessing, without looking at the schedule, that they didn't want to pre-empt the opening day of new syndication on WUAB, either.

WOIO added a half-hour of "19 Action News" to fill for the missing Katie Couric.

This isn't the first time WOIO has aired programming on "WeatherNow" aside from the continuous weather forecast/radar loop...they have aired a couple of funeral services for notable local members of the community, programming it as basically live news overflow for the main channel.

I'm pretty sure this is the first time they've bumped a CBS offering to 19.2, though.

 

[bpatrick]

After a deluge of complaints, WFMY ran the U.S.
Open men's final on tape yesterday--five days
after the event--on its regular Channel 2 as
lead-in to the Georgia-South Carolina game.

Did CBS offer the replay to its affiliates at 12:30
(ET)? That's when WFMY carried it.

 

[JeeperOne]

Hi everyone:

It was short-sighted if a station had to push tennis off, definitely, but it's one of those situations were either way, you're angering someone. I think CBS should've just pre-empted their primetime and aired the match then like with the women's final (although CBS airs the men's final on Sunday afternoon specifically because they claim the women's final always outdraws the men's), or push it to USA as a last hurrah for that network (although then you would have got WWE pre-emption grief involved if they went into lengthy tiebreakers past 9pm).

Personally I think they should've shuttled it off onto the Tennis Channel (Especially since USA Network is owned by NBC Universal) and called it a year.

But alas, TPTB at CBS didn't....

JMHO though....

Cheers

Pat

 

[ynot2k]

After a deluge of complaints, WFMY ran the U.S.
Open men's final on tape yesterday--five days
after the event--on its regular Channel 2 as
lead-in to the Georgia-South Carolina game.

Did CBS offer the replay to its affiliates at 12:30
(ET)? That's when WFMY carried it.

WTSP in Tampa ran it at noon ET Saturday.
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=89477

 

[WPPCProductions]

Channel 3 in Hartford aired the tennis match, blowing out their local news.

Yea plus ET was prempted.