Testing Altitude Alternate

[Josh 03]

Thought this was very important and the other TV thread already runneth over.

The Metro State vs.  Virginia Union game already happened.  It was yesterday and Metro State lost.  Altitude Alternate was covering the DII bball because Metro State is a Denver team.  Did anyone (Delta, Hillel) see that the game was supposed to be broadcast tonight as a repeat?  Because this game is old news.

If there's no BBall game, there's no test to see whether our bars get Altitude Alternate.



[Q]Hillel Hoffmann Wrote:

 

[One absurdly complicated test: Call the sports bar at about 10:00 p.m. ET on Thursday night and ask them to put on DTV 657. Yes, 657. If they see a D-II basketball tournament game -- Metro State vs. Virginia Union -- you're probably good to go for 658 on Saturday... Don't ask.]

.[/q]

[DeltaOne81]

Hmmm, I didn't check anything last night. Maybe it is a repeat or else Hillel screwed up

Here's the one bit of info I can give. Channels 657 on DirecTV currently has the DirecTV logo with background music. This tend to be a signal that something will be on it later. Previously, these channels were just black, as 658 still is.

Some something seems to be going on on 657, I'll check later again.

[Josh 03]

I just spoke with Charlotte from Altitude.

Metro State isn't playing.  They lost.  But ALTITUDE ALTERNATE IS STILL COVERING D-II Basketball today!!!!

There are 2 games starting 7 EST.  So there should be 5 hours of Altitude Alternate coverage (from about 7PM - 12 PM Eastern tonight).

Relief!


Post Scriptum--my conversation with the guy who I spoke to first who transferred me to Charlotte...

Josh: Hi I'm one of the guys who is interested in Cornell Hockey this weekend.
The Guy:  Boo. Cornell sucks.  You guys suck.
Josh:
The Guy:  I'm a Yaleie.  Can't you guys take a joke.  We're just tired of you guys beating us in everything.  Actually I don't know anything about this.  Let me transfer you.l

[Hillel Hoffmann]

Josh is right. Delta State was eliminated (I've started to identify with Denver sports...I actually felt sad). But the good news is that Altitude alternate is STILL showing D-II hoops games tonight as Josh explained, so a test is possible ... and the test window is open for longer than expected.

And by the way, don't listen to any bullshit you might get from people who say that the Cornell game is blacked out. It's not. I actually got that line from a sports bar manager in Philly.

Let me tell you, Charlotte rocks. [hint] I'm going to send a nice note to her supervisor at pmallios@altitude.tv [/hint]

[DeltaOne81]

7:01 PM ET - Channel 657 on DirecTV is showing Altitude sports and the description is "D-II Tournament Basketball" (or something like that) although right now they're talking about the Nuggets

Edit: 7:05 PM ET - the game has begun, it's 3-0 Bryant on top of Tarleton, 1:16 in

I'll check back every half an hour or so from now on so I can tell you when it stops being broadcast, to make sure that anyone who checked at a bar was indeed looking at the right hour.

[DeltaOne81]

9 PM ET - the channel goes to a discussion show called One-on-One

[Josh 03]

My sports bar just called me.  He said that DII basketball is on, but he said it's listed as Regional Sports Network.  Do we figure that's just a description that it is a regional sports network, not the an actual network called Regional Sports Network?

[DeltaOne81]

Josh, where are you/the bar located?

[judy]

[Q]DeltaOne81 Wrote:

 Josh, where are you/the bar located?[/q]

what he means is that anyone in the area is hitting your bar. congrats! you've hit pay dirt!

[DeltaOne81]

[Q]judy Wrote:

 [Q2]DeltaOne81 Wrote:

 Josh, where are you/the bar located?[/Q]
what he means is that anyone in the area is hitting your bar. congrats! you've hit pay dirt![/q]
Actually that's not what I mean . but its a good idea as well.

The problem is the bar around here told us that they got 644, but not 657.

I called DirecTV's business line to ask about the packages, and they said that sports channels can only go out to commercial accounts in your local area . That sounds like b.s. to me, but I wanted to make absolutely sure Josh wasn't in Colorado .

[redGrinch]

Josh is in DC - Grand Slam Sports Cafe in the Grand Hyatt.
Hooray!!!!:-)   Hockey to watch this weekend!!!! LGR!!!!!

[DeltaOne81]

Well, that's good news in general.

I haven't been able to really get in touch with anyone. I just tried calling Sports Depot in Boston again and they gave me the "call the day of" line. He also said he was really busy and couldn't talk due to March madness. I may call them back again later tonight, when it has hopefully quieted down a bit.

[abmarks]

anyone go to the Depot?  Or do i need to get off my but and check it personally?

[DeltaOne81]

abmarks,

dargason (Daniel) did go, but he didn't personally witness they test the channel. He just told them to try 644 and 657 (wrote down the numbers for them), and he was told by John (the guy he's been dealing with), that they did get 644, but not 657.

That was a major buzz killer until Josh came on here and said their bar in DC did get both.

I tried to call to check again, on the hope that they just misheard/misread 657, but they kinda brushed me off. If its not too far and you could go down there and make a nusiance of yourself until they showed it to you, that would be great! Let me know if you plan on that, otherwise I plan on calling back myself.

FYI, Dan said Sports Depot was really busy, so it'd probably be impossible for us to get a room/audio on Saturday. Therefore, I'm gonna see if Sports Grille can promise us that. However, it'd get rid of a lot of indigestion if it can be confirmed that 657 does indeed come with 644, and some mistake was just made when Dan was there.

-Fred

[abmarks]

If we can get a *roll-call* for saturday- we could likely get a table in teh back and get audio as well....the tables are seperate enough from the main room that audio     could be heard from that one TV or two.....