Sports Fan Open ended question

[NYShoreGuy]

In your lifetime of watching sports what is the feeling of most sadness you encountered when a league or event broke up with a network?

I am old enough to have seen the NBA leave cbs and nbc. The NFC/NFL leave cbs which had seismic reaction in the broadcast TV affiliate space. US Open leave USA network. NFL leaves ESPN and Primetime goes away. Now NBA leaves TNT.

 

[CT Pirate]

Has to be the NFC leaving CBS. It took me literally three years plus to get used to finding Fox for the Giant games. I would instinctively put on Channel 2 or 3 here in CT at 1:00. Losing Summerall and Madden hurt at first but that soon subsided when both moved to FOX. I still think of CBS as the NFC "station" 30 years later. Of course, I'm so old I yearn for the NFL Today with Brent, Irv, Phyllis and the Greek. "You are looking live."

 

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[shu67]

When the Yanks left WPIX.

 

[Piratz]

I can recall that CBS game when they lost NFL to FOX. I believe Madden and Summerall signed off from a game in Dallas. That was a huge deal. I believe that was also when the first scorebug arrived on FOX that next season in 1994.

Also the first year of YES Network was a mess with NYY games unavailable bc of the fiasco with Cablevision.

 

[Seton75]

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This group is off TNT but now on a different station en masse? I cant think of an announcing crew that I would miss if they went away. The Barkley crew, them I would miss.

Here is what I miss and we will never get it back. In the 60s, the lead PB guy for the home team announced the World Series with the netowrk guy. I think it was 2 guys in the booth. Their on field reporters (who we both invisible and silent) told me as much as the sideline guys of today.

Is this just another way for an old guy to yell "get off my lawn"? Maybe. But I liked it that way. I am watching the damned game. STFU sometimes lol. And the local color that only the local guys know might add something. If the Mets make the WS and I can't hear Gary it isnt the same. Steal Musk's chainsaw and put it to use on sports TV

 

[TheHall87]

This group is off TNT but now on a different station en masse? I cant think of an announcing crew that I would miss if they went away. The Barkley crew, them I would miss.

Here is what I miss and we will never get it back. In the 60s, the lead PB guy for the home team announced the World Series with the netowrk guy. I think it was 2 guys in the booth. Their on field reporters (who we both invisible and silent) told me as much as the sideline guys of today.

Is this just another way for an old guy to yell "get off my lawn"? Maybe. But I liked it that way. I am watching the damned game. STFU sometimes lol. And the local color that only the local guys know might add something. If the Mets make the WS and I can't hear Gary it isnt the same. Steal Musk's chainsaw and put it to use on sports TV

TNT is going to continue to produce Inside The NBA as is and will license the show to ESPN. Ernie, Charles and Shaq have current deals with TNT and Kenny is expected to finalize one. The question is how much influence will ESPN exert over the show and how often it will air (the belief is it will not be on before/during/after each broadcast window).

I don't have so much investment in league/team broadcast partnerships that it matters to me. It's a business. Just tell me what channel the game is on. I recognize there is an emotional component to seeing a long-time partner move on or be left behind but often the only real change is where the game is seen -- the voices move from partner to partner. To that point, Kevin Harlan, Ian Eagle and Brian Anderson do multiple sports with different networks, I can hear them all year round.

@Seton75 as for your point, if you have interest, Roku has an early Sunday package of MLB games that features a lead announcer along with one member of each team's broadcast. For a recent Mets-Cubs game Gary and Joe Girardi were the featured analysts.

 

[Piratz]

It’s also something of a dying breed bc so much has been carved up and changed over the years maximize profits.

For some reason MNF going to ESPN was one for me too. Or SNF leaving ESPN for NBC. Just a reflection of what you were used to for so long in a world now changing in that area.

 

[Seton75]

TNT is going to continue to produce Inside The NBA as is and will license the show to ESPN. Ernie, Charles and Shaq have current deals with TNT and Kenny is expected to finalize one. The question is how much influence will ESPN exert over the show and how often it will air (the belief is it will not be on before/during/after each broadcast window).

I don't have so much investment in league/team broadcast partnerships that it matters to me. It's a business. Just tell me what channel the game is on. I recognize there is an emotional component to seeing a long-time partner move on or be left behind but often the only real change is where the game is seen -- the voices move from partner to partner. To that point, Kevin Harlan, Ian Eagle and Brian Anderson do multiple sports with different networks, I can hear them all year round.

@Seton75 as for your point, if you have interest, Roku has an early Sunday package of MLB games that features a lead announcer along with one member of each team's broadcast. For a recent Mets-Cubs game Gary and Joe Girardi were the featured analysts.

so do most mlb network games. gotta love the pirate guy and his jolly roger calls lol.

as a dodger fan, i am pissed that neither the mets series nor the nyy series had a game called by gary or the yankee crew. would have preferred them over what we got.

 

[hbkmyr]

When the Yanks left WPIX.

Conversely when the Mets left WOR. Ralph Kiner, McCarver, Fran Healy and of course Kiner's Korner.

 

[shu67]

Nothing compared the the tradition of Red Barber, Mel Allen and Rizutto!

 

[TheHall87]

so do most mlb network games. gotta love the pirate guy and his jolly roger calls lol.

as a dodger fan, i am pissed that neither the mets series nor the nyy series had a game called by gary or the yankee crew. would have preferred them over what we got.

Most MLB Network broadcasts use the team broadcast so if it's the Mets, you're hearing some combo of Gary, Ron & Keith. If it's the Dodgers it would be Joe Davis and Orel Hershiser.

Enjoy this week's Mets-Dodgers series as all will have the local broadcast.