NCAA Tournament on tv

[cbuckser]

For at least the last week or two, the NCAA has listed the television stations that plan to carry the various NCAA Tournament regional games on ESPN syndication.  This list of clearances does not show which games ESPNU will show.  

http://www.ncaasports.com/broadcast/schedule/espnhockey

Edit:  These are the channels on which we can watch the Colorado College-Cornell game live:
Altitude Sports & Entertainment (DirecTV channel 644, Dish Network channel 410) until 9 pm EST
Fox Sports Net North-Minnesota (DirecTV channel 641, Dish Network channel 436) until 8 pm EST
Fox Sports Net North-Wisconsin (DirecTV channel 642, Dish Network 445) until the game ends
Time Warner (Ithaca & Syracuse areas) channel 26 until the game ends
Time Warner (Albany) channel 1
Charter-St. Louis channel 21
Cox-Oklahoma City channel 7
Cox-Tulsa channel 78
Metro Sports Network???


These are the channels on which we can watch the Midwest Regional final live:
ESPNU (DirecTV channel 609, Dish Network channel 148)
Altitude Sports & Entertainment (DirecTV channel 644, Dish Network channel 410)
Comcast Sportsnet West (DirecTV channel 656, Dish Network channel 409)
Fox Sports Net North-Wisconsin (DirecTV channel 642, Dish Network 449)
Time Warner channel 26 (Ithaca & Syracuse areas)
CN8 (New England)
Comcast Michigan channel 8
Comcast Sports Southeast
Charter-St. Louis channel 21
Cox-New England channel 3
Cox-Oklahoma City channel 7
Cox-Tulsa channel 78
Cox-Louisiana
KFXF (Fairbanks)
Mediacom (Iowa)
Metro Sports Network (Kansas City)

[Tub(a)]

Thanks.

Good to see CN8 pick up some games, including the Green Bay final. I do believe they stream their video free online...

[Rita]

I see our friends at Altitude will  have some games. Here are some lessons from last year, when the MN regional was carried exclusively by Altitude. Hillel, feel free to chime in with your experiences.  Altitude Sports IS on the personal home direct TV sports pack. Last year, Altitude was NOT on the Direct TV package that the sport bars get, it is an ala carte option. So unless your neighbor sports bar has a huge Denver Nuggets fan base, chances are that they won't get it.  

Sports bars can add on Altitude for a month for $50 or $75 dollars.

http://www.altitude.tv/

IIRC, last year the TV schedule was announced on Tuesday afternoon, but you can begin to figure out somethings ahead of time. Monday and Tuesday, when there is no NC$$ basketball, you might want to call or stop in your local sports bar to see if they get Altitude. I posted the link to the website so you can check their program schedule. If they don't get it, you might want to talk to the manager and possibly offer to pay some of the 1-month add on cost. That worked for me last year.  

The people at Altitude, especially Charlotte, were WONDERFUL.
CSTV could learn a heck of a lot about customer service from the fine staff at Altitude.  They gave us the low down on the satellite feeds (they also had an "Alternate feed") and how to find out which, if any, of the feeds our local bar was getting and how to confirm that people's  home Direct TV package was also working.

[billhoward]

CSTV cashed out when it sold to CBS. It's sometimes natural to let customer sat be the new buyer's problem ... you're busy at it is finding someone reliable to detail your Ferrari.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote billhoward]CSTV cashed out when it sold to CBS. It's sometimes natural to let customer sat be the new buyer's problem ... you're busy at it is finding someone reliable to detail your Ferrari.[/quote]
Or rebuild your engine.:-P

[rmandel]

As of now (3/19/06), the NCAA website is listing two Cox affiliates in Oklahoma as the only stations cleared for live TV coverage of Cornell's first round game.  ESPNU will be broadcasting the Northeast regional final at 6PM, so they won't be showing our game.

Like last year, we'll have to keep our fingers crossed and wait out the week for more clearances.  Hopefully channels will clear that can be accessed through DirectTV or the Dish Network.

[Josh 03]

Also, please keep your ears peeled and keep me posted as to satellite coordinates.  Last year versus Ohio State, if I remember correctly, the game didn't come on Altitude Alternate at the time we were expecting, and we had a bar full of upset Cornell fans.  But the bar had an old fashioned satellite dish, and as I was armed with the Ithaca Time Warner satellite coordinates, the manager was able to pick up the game through that.  If we have the satellite coordinates, I know folks in DC will be set.

[Robin]

I have not personally verified this.  but someone has told me that after searching tv.yahoo.com  they found this for the game next week in GreenBay:

Fox Sports North 2 #641 on direct tv (out of minneapolis) on Saturday at 5:30pm

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Robin]I have not personally verified this.  but someone has told me that after searching tv.yahoo.com  they found this for the game next week in GreenBay:

Fox Sports North 2 #641 on direct tv (out of minneapolis) on Saturday at 5:30pm[/quote]
Thanks!!  Here's the Fox Sports North schedule page:

http://msn.foxsports.com/tv/schedule?regionCategoryId=296&date=2006-03-25&submit_button=Submit

[upperdeck]

directv does show channel 641 with the GB regional game at 5:30 next sat according to the programming guide..

[ebilmes]

Some-Access has coded the audio broadcast of the game as "free."

[marty]

Now if I can only figure out which Fox sports channels I get on my crappy cable..... ::help::

[DeltaOne81]

[quote marty]Now if I can only figure out which Fox sports channels I get on my crappy cable..... ::help::[/quote]

Almost certainly only your local one - i.e. FSNY.

[jy3]

[quote upperdeck]directv does show channel 641 with the GB regional game at 5:30 next sat according to the programming guide..[/quote]
which channel is this?
looks like it is fsn and service is blacked out for us now...wonder if it will be there on saturday

[Jim Hyla]

[quote DeltaOne81][quote marty]Now if I can only figure out which Fox sports channels I get on my crappy cable..... ::help::[/quote]

Almost certainly only your local one - i.e. FSNY.[/quote]With digital cable you might get some of the fox college channels.