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Versus had to finish a Notre Dame game

cd637299 said:
FreddyE1977 said:
They had to do the same thing a couple of years ago with a Stanley Cup Playoff game that went into multiple overtimes.
(though as a hockey fan you are a bit more used to following your game around to obscure places on the dial).

Notre Dame fans are different. The seas should part for their team as far as they are concerned.
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My memory is vague...did the shutdown of analog TV have something to do with that Cup series issue?

cd
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Game Seven of the '09 Finals was also the final night of analog TV so everyone in Pittsburgh and Detroit were hoping for a fast game that ended before 11:59pm (though I'm sure the FCC would have let them slide by if it went into multiple OT's).

However in this case? NBC should have carried the game to the end. I know they probably wanted to get in their P&G/Wal-Mart Infomercial Movie in before news at 11, but they could have easily pushed it to next week in that case (which consists of the usual L&O repeats).
 
yep, that's how it happened. I understand WDIV in Detroit had already pulled their analog signal earlier in the day despite
howls of protest from Wings fans. (the game was available in over-the-air analog from CBC in Windsor though).

Here in Pittsburgh there was a lot of wondering what WPXI would do if the game went into overtime.
It did not however, I saw them kill the analog just before 12 midnite. Trivia answer: Penguins GM Ray
Shero was the last human being to appear live on Pittsburgh analog television.

The VHF 11 frequency was immediatly given over for the new digital signal of WPCW, so I guess
PXI would still have had to go if the game went OT.
 
DToTheJ said:
To paraphrase the late Rodney Dangerfield: I tuned into a race, and a college football game broke out!
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Or to paraphrase Dan Patrick during the Super Bowl hoopla (Which FSN proudly uses in the ads for The Dan Patrick Show.....

I came to Dallas for the Super Bowl & The X Games broke out

At the time, the Winter X Games were underway here in Colorado

Cheers & 73 :)
 
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