Patriots/Giants 12/29

[jr310]

Why is this game being simulcast in every market except the litchfield ct market? Are we not special enough? Has anybody heard anything else about this? I feel shafted.

[cforrest]

Litchfield is not part of NYC DMA, as I recall. That would be the reason for Litchfield not getting the game simulcasted.

[RemyM]

The game will be simulcasted on WWOR (MY9) CV isn't required to carry it in Litchfield because it's not your market.

[mws192]

I was trying to find out what channel this would be on (Thanks Remy for answering it) and I came across an interesting article talking about the same thing but for Pats fans in the greater Boston area.


NFL Network dispute could leave Patriots fans in dark

"....WCVB Channel 5, the ABC affiliate in Boston....have purchased the broadcast rights.........Time Warner customers in York County get WCVB as part of their basic cable package. But Seth Palansky, the communications director of the NFL Network, said the game would be blacked out in Maine to protect Boston, the home market."


I know this wasn't the case last year with the Giants on NFLN, but do folks on the Norwalk and Bridgeport systems have to worry about channel 9 being blacked out for the game? Or is this just another attempt of the NFLN trying to get people to call their cable ops and complain?

[RemyM]

We'll get the game in Fairfield County, CT on WWOR, cable channel 9 and in HD on 709.

[Geronimo]

The bottom line is that it is only being simulcast in each tam's local market. What DMA is Litchfield in----Hartford? What locals do you get/

[jpr281]

What DMA is Litchfield in----Hartford? What locals do you get/

By looking at
this map

, it looks like only Fairfield County is in the NY DMA. Litchfield is in Litchfield County (Hartford-New Haven DMA).

[hancox]

Yep. exactly. Fairfield County gets the game, nobody else.

And if you think the whining will be loud for the Giants, just wait until it starts sinking in in Rhode Island that the Pats won't be on. There might be more Pats fans in RI then MA.

[cforrest]

Rhode Island will be fine. Cox carries the NFL Network & those with FIOS will get it as well. No worries for them.