[Chron] Sunday's game against Magic not to be televised live locally?

Yeah, and what's really annoying is that it's not on NBA League Pass either - not even on LP Broadband. I can't see the game, and there's nothing I can do about it!

 

You mean it won't be on ABC in Houston?

It best be on ABC here in Kentucky!!

I am confused on the reason why it won't be on television at all... if its on ABC it should be on ABC everywhere (or at least in the markets that care to watch it)

 

Are you sure about that?

Edit - DANG, you are right, I just did a search and no Rockets on Sunday....UGh....gonna have to find it online somewhere.

DD

 

ABC owns the rights to that time slot. My best guess it will be shown later? Will this be shown later on LP as well?

 

According to the ROX website, it will be shown on LP Although delayed

 

the TNT exclusive Thursday deal is bad. But at least if there is another game (usually only one more) that game is on NBA League Pass.

But the ABC Sunday Afternoon Exclusive deal is even worse. As stated, ABC OWNS the time slot. That means NO over the air broadcase of ANY NBA games but on ABC. So all the games (and there are a couple sometimes) that play on Sunday afternoon that are NOT on ABC don't get shown whatsoever. Games that start at 1, or 3:30 or 5 or whatever.

This week's ABC games are national. Sometimes they will do one national game and 1 regional (choice of two games). But either way, they have the exclusive on the time slots.

It sucks. NBA League Pass should show those games live or at minimum a "tape delay".

 

Because ABC is showing 2 national games. They aren't doing a "regional" telecast. They ususally do that later in the year, or on weeks where they feel their matchups aren't very strong so they can maximize their ratings.

I think the 2nd ABC game this week is Cleveland v Miami. ABC knows that's the matcup that the majority of the TV audience will want to see. They weren't going to regionalize that game.

 

Well poo!! I just checked and I get the freaking Pistons game instead. Not that I don't like watching Tayshaun but poo!! I wanted to watch the Rockets.

Sigh... why do they have to mess with me!

 

ABC owns the time slot, not the rights to the Houston game.

This basically means ABC wants to make sure they are getting ratings from all basketball fans, therefore they are going to make us watch their games, which is why they bought rights to those specific time slots. Any other game that's on local television within that time just means that it won't be shown locally until after ABC has finished with their crappy coverage of double headers.

Basically, we need to start writing emails and letters to ABC to give them hell because they decided that their games should be the only ones that any NBA fan should watch.

 

WOW, so there are no other game broadcast during ABC's slot on Sundays.

I didn't realize this was how it worked. Thank you for explaining it.

 

I think it will be on @ 5pm on FSN tape delayed.

Good enough for me.

 

MLB does the same thing on Sunday nights. There are no other games allowed to be played on Sunday nights since ESPN owns the right to that window. The only team allowed to even play on Sunday nights if they aren't already the nationally televised game is the Rangers. They allow them to play Sunday home games at night because of the summer heat.

 

Personally, I'll just avoid the game/score until it actually broadcasts at 5pm.

But there are problems with that...

I often go to lunch with some friends on Sundays, but we can't go to the usual places (Cici's, Bayou City Wings, Hooters, etc.) because they'll probably have the ABC games on. The problem there is that they'll be running updates on the Rockets score at the bottom of the screen, at halftime, between each game, etc.

So regardless of whether we go eat somewhere or not, I can't even watch the games that they're trying to force me to watch, unless I want the outcome spoiled for me.

How f***ing stupid is that?

 

Read the first post. The game will be shown at 5pm, tape delayed.

 

I'd say that's fairly f***ing stupid.

 

Damn, this sucks. Now I have to wait till 5PM to see the game. Thats going to be hard considering I frequently visit the site throughout the day. Something needs to be done.

 

Amazing...

Once again, we fans must resort to listening to the game live on am radio.

What year is this?

 

BTW, at least the people in Houston get the game on Tape Delay via FSN.

Those of us that only get to see the Rockets outside of Houston on NBA LP don't get to see any game, live or on tape delay.