Ion Network and Baseball

[byron]

I remember back before WOPX/Pax/ION came about, when the WAYQ/WAYK (26/56) combo was still broadcasting together on those stations back in the mid 90s, and the transmitter quality on 56 hasn't improved much at all over the years since those times.

The feeds they provide to satellite are much better, obviously coming from a decent master control that is otherwise setup fine for output until it hits that OTA transmitter of theirs. Occasionally, I can pull in their DT signal OTA and it's not as bad as the analog transmission. Of course they're not going to do anything to fix any of that, since the analog switches off for good in less than 12 months.

Byron

[jahlight]

OMG I am blacked out from watching the RAYS in HD on ESPN but I cannot get the game in hd locally. I live in Tampa. BHN SUCKS!! Makes no sense!!

[stevenl]

Sorry its not BHNS fault. Blame the "Local Carrier Agreements" the Teams have with their home area.

[iceturkee]

OMG I am blacked out from watching the RAYS in HD on ESPN but I cannot get the game in hd locally. I live in Tampa. BHN SUCKS!! Makes no sense!!

but you have fsn florida while bhn central florida doesn't.

[Lkr]

But we can all just agree BHN sucks :P

[josem3]

But we can all just agree BHN sucks :P

Now, you know why I swiched to Dish. I'm no gonna miss my Marlins and Magics games. If BHN and FSN can not reach an agreement, I'm no gonna wait for them. The life is too short!

[stevenl]

At least you say its FSN and BHNs fault.... That I can agree.

[Scroll]

People watch rays games?

But to answer the question I am not sure. I think Orlando would be considerd "Local" for ray games because the next closet team is Miami... It also sucks during NFL time because we have so many teams Miami, Tampa Bay and Jacksonville and Orlando is full of fans from all three so its tough if your a fan of either to find a game in Orlando..

I've never been a big fan of protected markets period. I'm sure there's a lot of CA residents who run into this same problem. If the teams suck only the die hard sports fan will be watching anyway.

Sports franchises haven't been about the fans for years. In fact after like 5 years my number on the Bucs season ticket waiting list finally came up. And it couldn't have come at a worst time, both financially and with their recent treatment of both Sims & Garcia and wasting time looking for rookie QBs - again - instead of shoring up the areas that are failing.

[kurros]

OMG I am blacked out from watching the RAYS in HD on ESPN but I cannot get the game in hd locally. I live in Tampa. BHN SUCKS!! Makes no sense!!

You realize that BHN airs the FSN and ION HD games on 618/619, don't you? (It shows up as BHN Sports 1 and 2, they dont update the EPG for games). I watched the games in HD just fine.

[reeeedo]

I have BHN in St. Pete.

Any way for my HDTV's internal tuner to receive WXPX's digital and / or HD signal via the BHN cable (no box)???

I have "auto-programmed" the input for BHN's coax input and receive an interesting mix of analog, digital and HDTV stations - just not WXPX-ION.

Thanks!