stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl) (08/13/85)
> I don't know about Loveland, CO (in Mountain time zone) but on the west > coast, ABC has a policy that _all_ Monday night games are delayed _unless_ > one of the teams playing is from the west coast. In this case it will be > shown live in that team's home city (or market) and will still be delayed > everywhere else on the west coast. It is interesting to note that this > is not true for Monday night football. Unfortunately, KATU TV, (the local (Portland) ABC affiliate) in its infinite wisdom, does indeed tape-delay Monday night football by an hour, so that it airs at 7pm rather than 6pm. Most football fans I've talked to don't like it, but KATU seems not to care. I believe that KOMO in Seattle also does this. Can anyone in Seattle confirm this? Do they do it even when the Seahawks are playing on MNF? Other than watching a game that the rest of the country already knows the result of, my options seen to be: - don't watch - listen to the game on the radio - tape the game, and watch it at my own convenience - get a strong enough TV antenna to pick up the Eugene ABC affiliate ~100 miles to the south Steve Vegdahl Computer Research Lab. Tektronix, Inc. Beaverton, Oregon
tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter Barbee) (08/20/85)
>so that it airs at 7pm rather than 6pm. Most football fans I've talked to >don't like it, but KATU seems not to care. I believe that KOMO in Seattle >also does this. Can anyone in Seattle confirm this? Do they do it even >when the Seahawks are playing on MNF? > Yes, KOMO does delay all MNF games *except* when the Seahawks are playing, then they are live. I watched part (most of the third and some of the fourth quarters) of the 49er - Bronco game last night. I was very surprised that Elway played well into the third qtr. In fact it seemed that both teams used more of their regulars longer than usual for only the second preseason game. Anybody have any theories as to why? Peter B