OTA statistics and Monday Night Football
 

A certain person who lurks here claims that over-the-air (OTA) is
dead. Here's a contradicting statistic.

Monday Night Football is carried on ESPN. I only receive television
OTA. If I wanted to watch the Patriots play tonight, I would be out
of luck, except ...

Apparently, Disney (owner of ABC and ESPN) thinks there is a
substantial need for OTA, at least in the Boston area. When the
Patriots play tonight, the ABC affiliate will be carrying the game.
The ABC programming will be delayed until the middle of the night.

Does this happen in other football cities?

OTA statistics and Monday Night Football
 

NadCixelsyd wrote:
A certain person who lurks here claims that over-the-air (OTA) is
dead. Here's a contradicting statistic.

Monday Night Football is carried on ESPN. I only receive television
OTA. If I wanted to watch the Patriots play tonight, I would be out
of luck, except ...

Apparently, Disney (owner of ABC and ESPN) thinks there is a
substantial need for OTA, at least in the Boston area. When the
Patriots play tonight, the ABC affiliate will be carrying the game.
The ABC programming will be delayed until the middle of the night.

Does this happen in other football cities?

Yes. The games on ESPN and the Thursday games on the NFL network are
carried on a local broadcast station in the home city of the 2 teams.
This is common practice for the NFL. Disney does not make the decision
on a local broadcast, the NFL does. ESPN is required to provide a feed
to the local stations, who have paid the NFL for the local broadcast
rights. For the ESPN Monday night games, ABC may have agreed to carry
the games on their local affiliate, but I don't know if that is the case.

There was a bit of a fuss in October when the MLB division playoff
games were only available on TBS and, for those who's service provider
added it in time, TBS-HD. There were many upset baseball fans who could
not watch their local team in the baseball playoffs or not in HD except
for the AL championship and World Series on Fox.

Alan F

OTA statistics and Monday Night Football
 

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 05:30:47 -0800 (PST), NadCixelsyd
wrote:

A certain person who lurks here claims that over-the-air (OTA) is
dead. Here's a contradicting statistic.

Monday Night Football is carried on ESPN. I only receive television
OTA. If I wanted to watch the Patriots play tonight, I would be out
of luck, except ...

Apparently, Disney (owner of ABC and ESPN) thinks there is a
substantial need for OTA, at least in the Boston area. When the
Patriots play tonight, the ABC affiliate will be carrying the game.
The ABC programming will be delayed until the middle of the night.

Does this happen in other football cities?

I wonder how many view ABC over OTA, either. Delayed? Ugh.

Here in Los Angeles, we don't watch adults playing football anyway.

J.

OTA statistics and Monday Night Football
 

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 05:30:47 -0800 (PST) NadCixelsyd wrote:
| A certain person who lurks here claims that over-the-air (OTA) is
| dead. Here's a contradicting statistic.
|
| Monday Night Football is carried on ESPN. I only receive television
| OTA. If I wanted to watch the Patriots play tonight, I would be out
| of luck, except ...
|
| Apparently, Disney (owner of ABC and ESPN) thinks there is a
| substantial need for OTA, at least in the Boston area. When the
| Patriots play tonight, the ABC affiliate will be carrying the game.
| The ABC programming will be delayed until the middle of the night.
|
| Does this happen in other football cities?

It happens in Pittsburgh. The ABC affiliate WTAE dumped regular ABC network
programming to carry the Steelers last Monday night. Dancing With the Stars
got delayed until the next morning (dumped Regis to play DWtS).

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OTA statistics and Monday Night Football
 

NadCixelsyd wrote:
A certain person who lurks here claims that over-the-air (OTA) is
dead. Here's a contradicting statistic.

Monday Night Football is carried on ESPN. I only receive television
OTA. If I wanted to watch the Patriots play tonight, I would be out
of luck, except ...

Apparently, Disney (owner of ABC and ESPN) thinks there is a
substantial need for OTA, at least in the Boston area. When the
Patriots play tonight, the ABC affiliate will be carrying the game.
The ABC programming will be delayed until the middle of the night.

Does this happen in other football cities?

It happens in the Washington/Baltimore area, which is nice since I
can get all the Washington and Baltimore stations OTA. So when either
the Redskins or Ravens are on ESPN, I can get the game on ABC.

OTA statistics and Monday Night Football
 

"NadCixelsyd" wrote in message
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Does this happen in other football cities?

All NFL contracts stipulate that when a contest that is played at home sells
out, it is broadcast on a local affiliate of whichever network has rights to
the game. They also stipulate that whenever the home team is away, the
network that has the rights will broadcast the game at home.

So, when San Diego is at Denver, the local CBS affiliate will broadcast the
game on KFMB, the local CBS affiliate. When San Diego hosts Oakland to a
sell out sized crowd, KFMB will also broadcast the game.

steveo

OTA statistics and Monday Night Football
 

Michel Oui wrote:
NadCixelsyd wrote:
A certain person who lurks here claims that over-the-air (OTA) is
dead. Here's a contradicting statistic.

Monday Night Football is carried on ESPN. I only receive television
OTA. If I wanted to watch the Patriots play tonight, I would be out
of luck, except ...

Apparently, Disney (owner of ABC and ESPN) thinks there is a
substantial need for OTA, at least in the Boston area. When the
Patriots play tonight, the ABC affiliate will be carrying the game.
The ABC programming will be delayed until the middle of the night.

Does this happen in other football cities?

It happens in the Washington/Baltimore area, which is nice since I
can get all the Washington and Baltimore stations OTA. So when either
the Redskins or Ravens are on ESPN, I can get the game on ABC.


OTA's alive and well in this household!

Same ESPN-ABC arrangement here in San Diego for many Sunday games.
Local ABC affiliate is KGTV (10-1). 720p production looks technically
better than much of ABC's other HD work.

Monday night football isn't carried here by the ABC affiliate. That and
the games on "NFL network" are about the only ones I watch in 480i via
cable.

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pj