NFL 2010 Week 14: CBS Early Game
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Cincinnati @ Pittsburgh – Greg Gumbel, Dan Dierdorf [AK, HI]
Oakland @ Jacksonville – Kevin Harlan, Solomon Wilcots
Cleveland @ Buffalo – Don Criqui, Steve Beuerlein
Areas in GREY will not receive a game, either due to a blackout or a local team’s home game on FOX.
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UPDATES
all Tennessee stations; Austin and Waco TX; Evansville, Terre Haute and South Bend IN: OAK-JAX to CIN-PIT
Houston; Spokane WA; Little Rock AR; Mobile AL: CIN-PIT to OAK-JAX
Fort Smith AR: CIN-PIT to CLE-BUF
Buffalo: CLE-BUF to NONE (Bills blacked out)
Rochester, Syracuse: CLE-BUF to CIN-PIT
Salt Lake City: OAK-JAX to CIN-PIT
Interesting…but if you look at the maps it appears that nearly everyone is getting “punished” w/one lousy CBS game. If you get NE-CHI late, you’re stuck w/CIN-PIT early….
Maybe CBS is in a vindictive mood! I mean, the Bengals didn’t just start their losing streak 2 or 3 weeks ago. Perhaps the CBS brass wanted to secretly ~punish~ viewers with at least 1 bad game this Sunday! >>> WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF NETWORK PROGRAMMING EXECUTIVES . . .
WCCO is showing CIN-PIT:
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2010/12/12/minnesota-vikings-postponed-game-new-york-giants/
Since the Vikings will not play sunday, CBS will show the CIN-PIT game in the Minneapolis market. This is confirmed by WCCO-TV, the CBS owned station in Minneapolis. Steelers fans will like that.
the reason the Steeler – Cincy game is getting the most exposure this week is because the Steelers are playing! stop crying and go to a sports bar if you wannabe punished!! steelers in a rout, 19 – 12
I bet CBS wishes they had Dolphins-Jets at 1pm now since the Giants game was postponed. CBS right now has a lot of good late games, but weaker early games.
Its good to Let America view the 6 Time World Champs…
How do they decide what games we get?
The CBS early games are just awful but there are a bunch of quality late games with playoff implications. I wonder why CBS did not switch Dolphins-Jets to 1 p.m. but Pittsburgh does have a large fan base though.
You’ve got to wonder if there’s collusion between KIRO 7 (CBS Seattle) and KCPQ (FOX Seattle) to make sure that everyone tunes to the Seahawks game? How else can airing two 3-9 teams, the late game, into a major U.S. city, not to mention the entire state of Washington? Why do it when you’ve got several games, especially Patriots v Bears, that have serious playoff implications?
If so, got to wonder just how the advertisers feel about it? (I’d want my money back.)
WTF! CBS just cut away from the Raiders game due to “Contractual” BS! Yet another advertisement for NFL Sunday Ticket and a big middle finger to the viewers. NFL GFY! Trust me, one day all NFL games will be PPV.
@DJP(or any else feel free to answer)
Im not sure if this has already been addressed/answered….and if it has then im really sorry for askin it again, but since youre the one that i personally think knows the most about how all this stuff works ha…do u know for sure, or have any guesses, as to why they moved the pats/bears game to a late start? It just seems to me like it makes no sense whatsoever…with the jets/dolphins and kc/sd being at the same time and with the early games other than raiders/jaguars being horrible….I just want to know if theres somethin im missin or dont know about cause i really dont understand it…
As Drewdove said, here in Los Angeles, on CBS2, at 1:13 p.m., just after the Raiders had used their final time out, and with a few seconds left, with the Raiders down 38-31, and the Raiders were throwing what could have been their final pass of the game, we got the “DUE TO CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS…”, then CBS2 cut away from the game to air two minutes of commercials before switching to show the start of the Chargers game.
If you’re not a Raiders fan, that was hysterical
And San Diego isn’t a home team in LA. They are the closest geographically to LA, so I guess that tops the game of a team who was formerly based in Los Angeles. WOW!
I get 3 CBS stations and all three have the Jets-Dolphins even though Patriots-Bills would not only probably be a better game, but is of greater importance to Eagles fans. I can see Jets-Dolphins being on in New York, but why in Philadelphia and Scranton, PA?
The stupidity and arrogance of the NFL in choosing what games are shown never ceases to irritate me.
Oops. I meant Patriots-Bears.
@ Larry. The same thing happened to me in New Jersey. The only difference was that they cut away because it was the Jets game that was coming on, just to see two minutes of stupid commercials
KCBS in Los Angeles is clueless when it comes to programming. Instead of watching the crap KC game I watched the Patriots and Bears snowbowl streaming online from Europe! I still got my preferred game and didn’t have to endure poor commercials. I gave my neilsen ratings to Golf today
@Drewdove, Larry, etc:
Shame on CBS. Their broadcast of the OAK-JAC game into the LA market ended in a demonstration of utter greed. Yes, LA is a primary market for SD. Yes, the NFL requires that games be shown in their entirety to a team’s primary markets.
But does this rule REQUIRE CBS to cut away from the last 11 seconds in a game that’s within 7 points, as the trailing team is in the Red Zone in order to show a *pre-kickoff commercial* for a primary market game?
No!! The last 30 seconds of the Oakland game could have been shown to Los Angeles instead of a freaking commercial, and still left time to cover the kickoff in San Diego. By the time the commercial was over, the result was history and the SD game announcers were showing the result in the L column for the Raiders in the AFC West standings.
Shame, shame on CBS. Greedy b****rds.
And you know, I would have been mollified if the network had warned Johnson and Tasker that they should apologize to CBS’s LA viewers. I would have been happy, even, if they had given a replay of the final 11 seconds of play. But no, the commercial was more important. CBS is indeed clueless. And greedy. And did I say greedy?
The exact same thing happened in Boston, NYC and Miami.
They couldn’t wait 10 seconds. Ridiculous.
If it’s that common, you’d think they’d delay the late games another 15 minutes, now that instant replay reviews and TV timeouts are making the games last longer.
Heck, even 5 minutes would have been enough.