More than just subscribers of Cox Communications were seeing red Saturday afternoon.Time Warner Cable subscribers had been told they would receive Cox's broadcast of the 12:05 p.m. baseball game between Nebraska and Kansas live from Hawks Field in Lincoln. But the Lincoln-based cable company says it was unable to receive the satellite downlink of the game from Cox.
The technical trouble means Time Warner will air the Huskers' 9-2 win over the Jayhawks on Channel 77 tonight, beginning at 7:30.
"Time Warner Cable regrets the inconvenience and hopes you enjoy watching all the action from Hawks Field on tape delay tonight," said a statement issued by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln athletic department Saturday afternoon.
Viewers outside of the Omaha and Lincoln metropolitan areas were also shut out from watching Saturday's Big 12 opener for the Huskers because only Time Warner picked up the Cox-produced broadcast. This year, public broadcast station NET was not awarded the contract to carry Nebraska baseball games on TV.
In addition to Time Warner subscribers not being able to watch the game live, viewers watching Cox's coverage of the game on Channel 2 had to endure a split-screen effect for nearly four innings. The technical glitch put a black bar across the middle of the screen, with the top half of the video feed below it and the bottom half of the picture above it.
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How sad is it that the University screws the rest of the state from seeing Husker baseball just because they hated Kevin Kugler (lead announcer on NET for sporting events) of 1620 the Zone so much for his comments that were contrary to Steve Pederson's "outlook" at the athletic department. The athletic department is simply pathetic.
Oh well. Everyone else in the state can comfort themselves by watching Creighton and Wichita State on NET this Friday, with Kugler on PBP, in HD rather than split screen.
Don't worry, Pederson. Creighton laughs all the way to the bank.
In fairness to Steve P, the decision to move baseball games were probably based more on Cox selling commercials to allow them to pay more.
Keeping the games away from the 3-time Sportscaster of the Year was just frosting on the cake.
Today in Tom Shatel's column, Steve P said it had nothing to do with Kugler and NETV; he wants to get the games on cable.
Specifically, CSTV.
Who has worked with NETV to put Creighton basketball, UNO hockey, and yes, Husker volleyball and baseball on the air.
Now, NETV has turned to Creighton for college baseball games, and now Creighton games will appear on CSTV instead of Husker games.
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