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what would be wrong with showing a photo while continuing the audio broadcast?
surely there has to be a simple solution for a situation like this. it's not like millions of fans are going to abandon espn over an extra inning game every once in a while.
oh, wait. we once had a tie game in the all star game, which is also the determining factor for which team gets home field advantage in the world series. cancel the hope for a "simple solution".
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| I think you're contradicting yourself there. You say ESPN has all broadcast rights for Sunday night games which begin at 5pm local time. (but i think its ET)
I think its also stated on various websites that ESPN has broadcast rights for all games that start at 5PMET.
This game started at 1pm which would make it 4PMET, I don't think that ESPN had any rights for this game at all, since it started before 5PMET
I still believe someone at KCOP messed up, but on a good note we missed the GS.
Edit: MLB.TV states this also
• National Live Blackout (Regular Season): Due to Major League Baseball national exclusivities, for each Saturday game beginning April 19, with a scheduled start time after 1:10 PM ET or before 7:05 PM ET, and for each Sunday game that begins after 5:00 PM ET, all scheduled webcasts of such games will be blacked out.
I could be misinterpreting this but it fits what mi saying. I could be 100% wrong though.
Edited by takatokid14 2008-06-08 11:39 PM
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Location: Monrovia, CA | Here's the thing though... if ours blacked out because of this ESPN issue... then why didn't Oakland's telecast black out?
I'm sure it's just a KCOP issue.
I mean, what if the game went on for 20 innings? You can't just NOT show it. |
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| mancini79 - 6/8/2008 5:06 PM
I'm sure KCOP is getting a TON of emails/phone calls right now. It's going to be one miserable Monday for them.
LOL, I'm sure they couldn't give to f's about it. |
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| Funny that it was a Dodgers game on ESPN to boot (no pun intended). If it was indeed an ESPN thing, they screwed the west coast again by airing a game by...the west coast Dodgers! GASP! |
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| L.A. Times says it was a satellite issue:
"OAKLAND -- Heidi, meet Smilla. Smilla . . . Heidi.
It probably won't live in infamy for decades, but Channel 13 had its own Heidi moment Sunday, cutting away from its Angels TV broadcast to a movie called "Smilla's Sense of Snow" right before the A's Mark Ellis hit a walk-off grand slam in the 12th inning.
Apparently, there was a communication error with the feed between Vyvx, the satellite carrier of the telecast, and AT&T, which distributes the telecast.
At 5 p.m., just before the final pitch, Channel 13 went to a color bar, a black screen with a KCOP logo, a commercial, and then to the movie, which TV Guide described as a "thriller about a half-Inuit scientist (Julia Ormond) who becomes obsessed with the suspicious death of an Eskimo boy in Copenhagen."
The snafu was reminiscent of NBC's gaffe on Nov. 17, 1968, when, with 65 seconds left in an important AFL game between the Raiders and Jets, it cut away to the movie "Heidi."
The Jets led, 32-29, at the time, and viewers missed a stirring Raiders' comeback that led to a 43-32 victory. " |
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Location: AngelsWin.com: Where Angels Fans Are @ | MLB extra innings subscribers like myself received the entire game. Though it was an ending that was not fun to witness, I'd be pretty upset if it cut out on me. |
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Location: AngelsWin.com: Where Angels Fans Are @ | http://www.beloblog.com/Pe_Blogs/prosports/mlb/angels/ 8:11 PM Sun, Jun 08, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Posted by: Matt Hurst Don't blame ESPN. There is a heated discussion on the Angelswin.com message board blaming ESPN for Channel 13 inexplicably going out right before Chris Bootcheck threw the game-deciding pitch to Mark Ellis on Sunday. Instead, it was a communications error between Vyvx, a satellite carrier, and AT&T, the distributor of the signal. Thus, the signal was lost and a movie was played. "It was not a technical error," Angels vice president of communications Tim Mead said. "There was some kind of miscommunication between the parties who oversee the satellite feed." The screen showed a color bar, then black with the KCOP logo in the corner, ran a commercial, then the film began. The movie is described by TV Guide as a "Thriller about a half-Inuit scientist (Julia Ormond) who becomes obsessed with the suspicious death of an Eskimo boy in Copenhagen." It easily brought comparisons to NBC's decision on November 17, 1968 to cut away from a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game to show the movie Heidi. The Jets led 32-29 at the time with 65 seconds left, before the Raiders scored 14 points to win, 43-32, yet no one saw it. |
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| Luckily, I fell asleep during the 10th inning.
Julia Ormond is pretty hot though. :) |
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| Hey we got some press, along with my Heidi reference.  The worst part about losing the signal was thinking ESPN cut the Angels feed just so we could be force fed the Dodgers. It felt like Frank McCourt came to my house and changed the channel on me. |
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Location: Orange, California | I had my laptop right next to me when it happened, so I go over to the MLB scoreboard on ESPN.com and I see "Pitch one in play.." and then a 4 appears on the scoreboard. Kinda glad I didn't see it..
Edited by Puckfiend 2008-06-09 10:33 AM
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Channel 13 disappearing act
