Texas-OU TV Coverage Map

by Peter Bean on Oct 4, 2007 11:23 AM CDT in Texas Longhorns Football

I've received a handful of emails asking about ABC's coverage plan for Saturday's 2:30 games. Plan accordingly:

--PB--

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No game for the Southeast

Being a Longhorn in Atlanta is just sad and lonely...

Looks like another trip to the sports bar...

by Texas Sized BS on Oct 4, 2007 11:35 AM CDT reply actions

It is somewhat confusing

in the midwest.

According to my digital listing at home ESPN has an either or thing. It has PSU/Iowa on ESPN AND on ABC.

I think in the past I've discoverd it only gets put on one or the other, while the RRS ends up on ESPN.

Can't take the risk. I need to be around others in mourning. Sports bar it is.

Cats and dogs sleeping together.

by EYESofBEVO on Oct 4, 2007 12:04 PM CDT reply actions

I've seen some strange things like that too. I live at ground-zero of buckeye country and I've seen Big 12 games come on regional ABC and then prompty get switched to a lousy Big 11 game right before kick-off.

by Speedway on Oct 4, 2007 12:13 PM CDT up reply actions

I can't believe

They're fukking showing the Florida State-NC State game here in Washington, DC (per WJLA's website). A thrilling ACC matchup!

by Drinking the Orange Kool Aid on Oct 4, 2007 12:36 PM CDT reply actions

TV Guide says the same thing

Rhodeside is my suggestion to you.

by Wells on Oct 4, 2007 12:45 PM CDT up reply actions

Yep, I called ABC 7 and confirmed

It's NCSU-FSU for us here in DC.

I mean, really -- North Carolina STATE?!? No one here cares about them!

I have Game Plan, so I'll be able to see the game, but so much for watching in HD.

by novahorn on Oct 5, 2007 8:53 AM CDT up reply actions

They're not

according to this map!

by rhoby13 on Oct 4, 2007 12:38 PM CDT reply actions

WWL

On eight Saturdays this season, beginning tomorrow, ESPN will offer regionalized college football coverage, carrying games being aired on ABC, according to Michael Hiestand of USA TODAY.

Link ($).

So for those in the teal/green regions, you might still be getting the RRS if you try flipping over to ESPN. I guess you have a 50/50 shot. Last week, Comcast Houston received the Wisconsin game (and unfortunately, not the Cal-Oregon matchup).

by jc25 on Oct 4, 2007 12:43 PM CDT reply actions

I remember..

I attended my first two years of undergrad at Northern Illinois University. I was stuck watching games such as Indiana-Northwestern and Iowa-Minnesota, while there were plenty of great games on in the rest of the country. These were the things that caused me to move back home to Texas. Sadly, my friends that are in graduate school up there now have to watch Iowa-PSU. Tragic.

by saveadre on Oct 4, 2007 1:05 PM CDT reply actions

That and...

the fact that I was in Dekalb, Illinois.

by saveadre on Oct 4, 2007 1:06 PM CDT up reply actions

When is ABC going to realize ...

... that even Georgia Tech games aren't that big a deal in Atlanta, much less N.C. State and Florida State battling for ... what, exactly, I don't know.

Sigh. I feel real sorry for Longhorn fans, but I'd like to see the game out of a general interest in CFB.

by cocknfire on Oct 4, 2007 1:16 PM CDT reply actions

Virginia

I'm just surprised that VA finally realized that.

by Texas Wahoo on Oct 4, 2007 2:23 PM CDT up reply actions

Hopeful in NYC

When I heard that Texas-ou was a regional game, I figured we'd never get it up here in Manhattan. Your map gives me hope. Checking my local, WABC-TV listings, it says "Teams TBA." Thing is, I don't know if I dare to look.

by NYCHorn on Oct 4, 2007 3:22 PM CDT reply actions

nyc

almost always gets the national game of interest unless rutgers is somehow involved because no one here cares about college football except us transplants.

we've gotten the ou game the past few years here.

by billyzane on Oct 4, 2007 4:41 PM CDT up reply actions

That's a lot of TV sets

I hope the horn's bring their swagger to Dallas 'cause there's going to be a lot of eyeballs watching this game.

by spinmonkey on Oct 4, 2007 5:06 PM CDT reply actions

I'n in NYC Saturday for a wedding

Can anybody confirm the broadcast there?

Go Horns !

Take the blue pill, the story ends, and you wake up believing whatever you want to...

by MeatchickenHorn on Oct 4, 2007 6:20 PM CDT reply actions

Like NYCHorn

my satellite system also says "TBA" for that time slot. I ASSUME we'll get that game, but to know for sure, you'd probably have to call the local ABC affiliate.

Side note: it also says "TBA" for the Florida/LSU time slot, and I can't imagine we won't get that game.

by BrooklynHorn on Oct 5, 2007 11:36 AM CDT up reply actions

Look at Massachusetts

My tiny home state split into three viewing bands for no discernible reason. You could travel through all three bands in less than three hours, and yet one of these areas is supposedly Big 10 country, one is Big 12 country, and one is ACC country. Weird.

by Old Tex29 on Oct 4, 2007 7:06 PM CDT reply actions

Finally

Hope this map is right. Living in Victoria, BC, this is the first Texas game I have had a chance to watch all year. Let us all pray that I don't want to turn it off by halftime.
Usually there is some lame Pac 10 game that gets shown in Seattle, which is all I can get here. I will admit, however, that last week's Cal - Oregon matchup was a lot better than watching Texas get hosed. I can't even get Direct TV or any other decent satellite coverage here, as Canada has outlawed those. Satellite sports coverage here just means 20 hockey games on at once instead of 3 or 4 on cable.

by Longhorn in Canada on Oct 4, 2007 11:16 PM CDT reply actions