What game(s) are you referring to?
Ohio State vs Penn State
Saturday, 8 pm, ABC
What game(s) are you referring to?
Ohio State vs Penn State
Saturday, 8 pm, ABC
In order to accommodate the half-hour TV ad Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., purchased for Wednesday October 29, Fox has requested and received permission to delay the 6th game of the World Series by 15 minutes.
The Hollywood Reporter and the Los Angeles Times report that Major League Baseball today granted Fox's request to delay the start of the game from 8:20 pm ET to 8:35 pm ET.
CBS and NBC have also agreed to run the 30-minute campaign ad.
Might as well be. Rays-Phils will be the lowest rated series of all time except perhaps in Philly and Tampa-St. Pete.
I thought this was a world series forum. What's up with Obama and Ohio State. Last I heard neither were in the series.
Regarding the game times, I udnerstand the time for weeknights and I understand why not to have the game duringt he day on the weekend, but why not have a first pitch ~7pm on Sat/Sun? That makes it significantly less late for folks on the East Coast (which which likely be the bulk of the viewers given the involved teams) and is still pretty accessable to Weast Coast folks and even helps with the "children staying up late to watch games" dynamic. I don't really understand the rationale for such late starts on Sat/Sun.
Why is there an 8:50 start ?
On a Wednesday no less ....
and we can't even get DAY games on the weekend
Just another stupid idea from MLB and the money hungry network
Not to go off topic a bit but I want to respond to the above post about the Super Bowl being at 6:15. It wouldn't surprise me if in 10 or 15 yrs. that the Super Bowl doesn't start at 8 or 8:15 pm. It just wouldn't surprise me. Even though they say that everyone will see it, it's just a pain in the ass for a lot of people. Taking the Super Bowl out of the equation, all the tv execs for sports rather start a game at 8 pm and get let's say, a 10 rating and be happy, instead of starting a game at 1 or 4 pm and get a 15 or 16.
That's just the way it is BUT THAT HAS TO CHANGE!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
You would not get higher ratings with an afternoon start. If a game got a 10 rating with a primetime start it would likely only get a 4 or 5 with an afternoon start. Trust me all this stuff is ratings driven. If a network thought they'd get a bigger rating at 3 AM that's when games would be scheduled. Look at the Olympics. NBC saves all the good stuff for primetime and they get huge ratings to justify it. The ratings for their afternoon and late night coverage were garbage.Not to go off topic a bit but I want to respond to the above post about the Super Bowl being at 6:15. It wouldn't surprise me if in 10 or 15 yrs. that the Super Bowl doesn't start at 8 or 8:15 pm. It just wouldn't surprise me. Even though they say that everyone will see it, it's just a pain in the ass for a lot of people. Taking the Super Bowl out of the equation, all the tv execs for sports rather start a game at 8 pm and get let's say, a 10 rating and be happy, instead of starting a game at 1 or 4 pm and get a 15 or 16.
That's just the way it is BUT THAT HAS TO CHANGE!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
I hear you. It's tough to schedule these games and please everybody. What I can't get over is the fact that WS games used to be played exclusively during the day. I mean night baseball began in the 30's and the first night WS game wasn't until 1971. Think of all the great moments like Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard Round the World, Don Larsen's perfect game, Mazeroski's walk off HR that virtually nobody got to see because they happened in the middle of the afternoon. Even worse there was no such thing as ESPN to replay the highlights.Anders, good reply. Thank you for your insight. I just think that they should make it a little convienent for people to watch the games. They just start so late and end so late. For people who have to get up and go to work in the morning, you could live with it if it happens a little bit but this is every sport (except NFL), every game, every year, it's hard for some people.
That's a shame, because if that's the case, people will be missing out on a very compelling series.
Agreed, weekend games should be during the daytime. How can kids watch the World Series with those late starts, no wonder MLB is losing fans.
It's not a shame...it's an assumption. The ONLY people that MIGHT come out losing is the networks and the advertisers. Whatever money that was due to MLB, they got that check a VERY long time ago.
Baseball fans a very strange fans, they moan and bitch about how they hate a team and don't want certain teams in the postseason...but IF the team they hate DOES not make...then 'the series is gonna suck'....MAKE UP YOUR MINDS!!! LOL!