Thought this might merit highlighting in a separate thread--posted on the other TW thread but afraid it would be buried:
Just spoke to Time Warner Sports Dept. They will only provide tape-delay of CU vs. CC at 11 a.m. Sunday on channel 26. It will not be offered on the Sports Pack as claimed upthread.
The rationale is that they have been committed "for months" to the Syracuse Crunch game. However, that game is scheduled to start at 7 pm. They are carrying the East Semifinal at 3 pm and Masters Bowling at 6 pm.
It seems to me that they could air the Cornell game, scheduled to start at 5:30, and delay the start of the Crunch broadcast until the end of the CU game.
I have called the general manager of Time Warner Sports and left a message requesting this. His name is Doug Logan, 315-634-6474, email doug.logan@twcable.com.
I would encourage everyone to call/email him and ask that he air the game live and push back other programming. Perhaps if he is deluged with viewer opinion he will change the scheduling!
Please do this... you never know if it might work.
I just left Doug Logan a voicemail message, and then followed up with an e-mail message.
Andy W.
Left very polite phone message for Doug. See other thread.
I just called and spoke to Doug Logan
and he said that they are working on trying
to put the game on live.
Looks like our efforts worked. (Thanks for getting the ball rolling, REDHead.)
See this e-mail I just received:
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Andrew,
Thank you for your e-mail regarding Saturday's Cornell NCAA Tournament
game. Please note the following:
Time Warner Sports is excited to announce it will televise Saturday's
Cornell Big Red NCAA Tournament opening round game LIVE on Channel 26.
The game against Colorado is scheduled to faceoff at 5:30pm.
Here's is our scheduled NCAA Tournament schedule for this weekend:
Saturday March 25th:
New Hampshire vs Michigan State - 12-noon Harvard vs Maine - 3:00pm
Cornell vs Colorado - 5:30pm (This telecast will be seen in its
entirety)
Sunday March 26th:
Cornell vs Colorado (Replay) - 11:00am
East Region Final (Pepsi Arena in Albany) - 2:00pm Midwest Region Final
(Brown County Veterans Memorial in Green Bay, WI) - 5:00pm
Thank you and GO BIG RED!!
Doug Logan
General Manager
Time Warner Sports
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