I want to get my DVR programmed in advance before I forget.
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Frank,
I was the only swimmer in the class. Everyone else was in football or baseball. They were all schocked to find out that swimming was the most likely sport (it might have been only college sport but I don't exactly remember)to be on TV. I think the highest rated sports event was the Army/Navy football game. Also, ice skating was really high onthe list. I remember as a child watching a natinal meet on Wide World of Sports, also, watching an Indiana University swim meet.
I remember in 1986, living in DC, we were unable to get the NCAA men's basketball championships because the city only had cable in parts of Goergetwon and the far north east. Also, the contract was with a small suburban station that didn't have enough power to transmit into the district. CBS has only recently been the only network to cover the NCAA men's. It would be great if some insightful NCAA person got minor sports bundled with basketball. This year's wrestling championship was on FSN. However, since FSN is more likely to have local schedulers interupt the national feed, it isn't very consistent.
We had the Big 12 swimming championships on our local FSN. I thought that for the first time, the commentators weren't that bad. During the Olympics, Rowdy Gaines kept saying that swimmers were coming up long. What he was pointing out, I always thought was being short.
I've also looked on ESPN's offical schedule, I could find no mention of the nationals anywhere in the sight. It included ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN+, and other ESPN stations. Sometimes, I think ESPN thinks it is too good to promote itself!
Frank,
I was the only swimmer in the class. Everyone else was in football or baseball. They were all schocked to find out that swimming was the most likely sport (it might have been only college sport but I don't exactly remember)to be on TV. I think the highest rated sports event was the Army/Navy football game. Also, ice skating was really high onthe list. I remember as a child watching a natinal meet on Wide World of Sports, also, watching an Indiana University swim meet.
I remember in 1986, living in DC, we were unable to get the NCAA men's basketball championships because the city only had cable in parts of Goergetwon and the far north east. Also, the contract was with a small suburban station that didn't have enough power to transmit into the district. CBS has only recently been the only network to cover the NCAA men's. It would be great if some insightful NCAA person got minor sports bundled with basketball. This year's wrestling championship was on FSN. However, since FSN is more likely to have local schedulers interupt the national feed, it isn't very consistent.
We had the Big 12 swimming championships on our local FSN. I thought that for the first time, the commentators weren't that bad. During the Olympics, Rowdy Gaines kept saying that swimmers were coming up long. What he was pointing out, I always thought was being short.
I've also looked on ESPN's offical schedule, I could find no mention of the nationals anywhere in the sight. It included ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN+, and other ESPN stations. Sometimes, I think ESPN thinks it is too good to promote itself!