oh those unbiased dallas announcers with the play by play announcer saying "yao with the moving screen"....sheesh they did it everytime he set a pick
Im here in dallas and we get the game on UPN, but i have to watch it on mute because the annoucers are so biased.
Are they not capable of regional screening? How many people in TX give a damn about Pacers-Celtics? maybe 8?
They should start the game on time on TBS. God forbid someone miss their Home Improvement and Seinfeld reruns.
you guys don't get channel 51? you can get that with bunny ears. better than nothing until the TNT telecast comes on.
I just don't understand why they cannot show the beginning of the game on NBA TV. I mean they just have people sitting around talking about the games and showing clips every once in a while. Is TNT not allowing them to show it or what?
The problem is the game time scheduling. A game typically takes roughly 2.5 hours. And if they have a game starting at 7pm ET and another game at 9:30pm then they are fine so to speak. But the "Tip off" never is at 7pm. That's when the BROADCAST starts. We get 10-15 mins of Ernie, Kenny and Charles jabbering with a TIP at around 7:10, 7:15. And that pushes things back. They may "hold" the second game to 9:45 but after then they tip. What TNT needs to do is just start their broadcast 30 mins earlier and have a "Pregame" show so they can jabber all they want for 30 mins and then tip EXACTLY at the top of the hour. It would allow the game to be played and they probably would even get time after to do post game interviews. And if the game goes to OT they still have bonus time. So the real solution is to add a 30min pregame show and make sure the 1st game tips off so the tip off is 2.5 hours away from the 2nd game. Too many times this week (and not just for Rockets games) the 2nd game has gotten the shaft. We havent seen any tip offs. TNT's timing is terrible. And while we are talking about TNT, if I have to see another damn commercial for "Into the West" or "The Closer" I am going to puke! Enough is enough!
U have to wait for a while, untile it haing enough stream saved into it's buffer(several minutes ? depends on your connection speed and channel quality). And u need Windows Media players 9 or better to play it, usually the player jump up automatically when cool stream is ready.
For diehard fans, missing the first few minutes of a ball game is pretty painful. Sadly, TNT isn't for die-hard fans, but the national public, and they have to do what will get the most ratings. It doesn't make sense to have a gap between two games, because then the audience from the first game will drop off when it ends. Instead, better to have a dramatic finish that will be watched by the incoming audience, complete with more commercials (because of frequent time-outs) - rev that audience up because hey, that's where TNT is making it's money. So you get a bigger audience for the end of the 1st game, and a greater likelihood that more people will watch at least some of the second game. Maybe all of it. Personally, I don't hold it against TNT. You can't blame a national company for catering to the national audience. I mean, if you were a boston fan, how lame would it be to cut to another game in overtime? What would be nice though if TNT allowed another channel to broadcast the game if the first game was in overtime.
