Do you live in or near Houston? Do you watch Rocket games on Ch.20, KTXH? Have you noticed that when Ch. 20 goes to commercial they show the score but they don't show the time? I realize what they've done. They've sold ad space to Southwest Airlines and decided to put the SWA logo in the available space on the "score banner graphic" At the end right where the time would go. I have emailed them twice asking them to maybe alternate the time with the SWA logo and have only received automated responses. Someone's got to read their email? If you would like to see the time as well as the score, I suggest you email them too. Maybe if they get a few emails from fans who watch Ch. 20 KTXH, they might listen? programming@ktxh.com is the email address on their website. thanks rH on a sidenote...A year or two ago, the Rockets where on Ch. 39, and I remember emailing them about the font they used for the score, it was hard to read, and they changed it the next game!
Just look at your watch if you want to know what time it is ------------------ If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!!
Really, Outlaw?? Geez, ya put a smiley face at the end of your post and people STILL don't know you're being facetious... Maybe I should put <font size="6">Attention!! Sarcasm Ahead!!</font> in any similar posts in the future, just so outlaw doesn't get confused... ------------------ If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!!
Guys... UPN has no control over what the Rockets do with their broadcasts. The Rockets buy the air time from the station and then choose to do whatever it is they want with graphics, commercials, etc. If you want to complain about something like that, contact the Rockets because they control it. Their director of broadcasting is Joel Blank. I would imagine that he controls most of the look of the games, etc. ------------------ Me fail English? That's unpossible.
Joel Blank/Doc Rocket? hmmmmm... ------------------ When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"The Rockets buy the air time from the station and then choose to do whatever it is they want with graphics, commercials, etc.". Are you speaking strictly for UPN? Or are you talking about Fox Sports too? UPN and Fox Sports use definitely use different graphics when before/after commercials. Fox Sports uses a Fox Sports logo whereas UPN uses "Rockets Basketball" and a Southwest Airlines logo. Are the Rockets the ones applying that Fox Sports logo?
Sorry! I was out of town all weekend on business. The difference with FSSW is that they split the coverage with the team. The team pays for part of it (basically handling the announcers, the tv cameras, the editing, broadcast, etc) while the network covers the rest. Because it is not broadcast TV but rather a channel that requires a service (cable, satellite, etc), it does not have the same rules. Fox is given some broadcast rights like the right to air some of their commercials, do the halftime show with their own sponsors and keep their graphics as well as the occassional score update graphics for other games at the bottom. At UPN, the everything outside of a few ads for UPN programming is controlled by the Rockets including the graphics. Bob: I know Joel is NOT Doc Rocket though I am still trying to figure out just who the hell he is or even if I've met him before though I doubt that. That is not at all Joel's style. But, I do know that he reads cc.net and is a very cool guy. ------------------ Me fail English? That's unpossible.
Thanks Jeff. I wondered how those contracts worked. You answered that one, so how bout this one? It seems like the games I see on FSSW look so much better than UPN games. The picture quality is consistently better on FSSW even though I get em both from the same Warner digital feed. From what you've said, it sounds to me like UPN and FSSW are using the same cameras, camera-men, director, etc. So, both networks are receving the same video feed of the game out to their 'broadcast trucks', and FSSW just manages to get a better signal to Houston digital cable than UPN can get? It always seems like the picture quality on the Fox Sports League Pass games is better than that of the local affiliates on League Pass. So I guess I figured Fox Sports were using their own cameras or something? NBC and Turner bring their own cameras, right? OTOH, I can see how Fox Sports, a huge News Corp. sports conglomerate, can manage to transmit a cleaner, better video signal to Time Warner digital cable than can UPN 20, a recently independant shack of a TV station.
