KMTV (Cox Channel 5) provided live coverage of the Creighton University men's basketball team's win Sunday afternoon at the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.Just moments after CBS Sports signed off from Creighton's 67-61 over Southern Illinois, Sports Director Travis Justice provided live interviews from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. Weekend sports anchor Matt Seigel, reporting from the Action 3 News studio, provided highlights and statistics.
KMTV's special coverage interrupted the first eight minutes of the game between Duke and the University of North Carolina.
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I'm as big of a Jay fan as anyone, but come on, it's a conference tournament game, not even an NCAA tourney game. Too much overkill. I have four high school boys having a Duke-UNC party and they had to endure (like all the viewing area) Travis and his big mouth while KMTV Actionless news keeps us away from the game. Again, go CU, but the local postgame was way too much at the expense of another good game.
I too was upset at missing the Duke game and having to see Travs face.
Worse though was highlights of the post game celebration I saw on the 5:30 Channel 6 news. Since they are so cheap they use the internet to send back video instead of satellite their clips were totally pixelated during the heavy action and really looked like they were shot with a cell phone camera. They have really taken cheap to a new level.
As much as I wanted to see the Duke game, it was great to see Nate Funk get interviewed and enjoy the limelight. Go Creighton!
Isn't that exactly what a LOCAL news station is supposed to do? Give us live, LOCAL news? If NU wins the BigXII football championship game, and KETV goes live, cutting into the SEC title game, for example, you have the same problem? Damned if they do, damned if they don't. Like I said, I'm glad we are getting LOCAL news stories.
I am so sick for Lard boy Trav shoving Creighton down our throats. Yippee they won the Vally tourney and props to them, most of us don't give a crap. The difference between NU and CU - NU is part of the STATE universiry system, CU - private Jesuit school, located in Omaha. To me it is a big difference. If CU was average, like NU hoops, nobody would care.
People could take a lot more Creighton shoved down their throat if ANYBODY would have cared about them just 7-8 years ago.
I remember going to a game at the Civic not that long ago where I counted FOUR students. Now I need SPECIAL coverage?
Hooray for them having a good team..but give it a freaking rest. Bad enough the Omaha media does Husker overkill, but at least I can understand that. Makes me want to root against Creighton even more.
Down with bandwagon fan bases.
It is a big story. I'm sorry Duke fans couldn't see Billy Packer go on and on and on about them for five minutes but to many of us, it was a big deal.
I guess selling out the Qwest Center numerous times and having an attendance in the top 15 in the nation doesn't mean anything. While it wasn't the best program a decade ago, under Dana Altman, it has become a premier program in the midwest. Omaha, and the state of Nebraska, should be proud.
Good grief, can we stop with the "bandwagon" talk???
It doesn't matter where the fans come from as long as they are coming. Bottom line, they're filling the Quest. It takes almost two NU home crowds to equal one CU home crowd. Obviously somebody out there cares about Bluejay basketball. Okay, so they might all disappear when the wins dry up.....but they did the same thing when the Husker hoops wins dried up, too.
I am no fan of most of the stuff Channel Third does, but this was a smart move. I guarantee you the people watching that game were Jays fans and probably wanted to hear from the players and coaches after the game.
So they missed eight whole minutes of the Duke-Carolina game? WHAAAAAA!
It's not like you won't be seeing those two team again, and again, and again, and again.
As part of the "ESPN Generation," I think anyone who didn't like the postgame coverage is a bozo.
Who cares about UNC and Duke! If you like Duke and UNC more you are probably an ESPN fed idiot, and love the lakers, the patriots, notre dame, and the yankees.
They could have covered the Jays entire postgame including the trophy presentation and I would have watched.
A program has to start somewhere. Were NU football fans in the 1960s bandwagon fans if they came on board in 1968 but didn't care in 1962?
Let's get to the point: It was a MVC game, not an NCAA tourney game. So let's have post gamecoverage of the CU-Iowa School for the Retarded game next season. I'm in for post-game coverage if they win an NCAA tourney game, but come on. And yes, thos of you who don't know basketball, Duke-UNC is an entertaining game for those of us who love college sports and don't just worship local gods. Wow, get to hear from the local boyz immediately after the buzzer. BANDWAGONEERS
Top twenty in the nation for attendance. Sell outs. Use of the Qwest Center. Thousands of alumni in the area.
Yeah, bandwagon.
Jealous Husker fan?
1.) The game was on KMTV
2.) KMTV broadcasts CU Games all season.
3.) KMTV is now a breaking news station. Yes, this was breaking news even though it was sports.
4.) If it wasn't big news, why did all three stations follow the Jays in St. Louis? I think I watched all three go live from there.
5.) Why is it okay to break in for Nebraska football and not Creighton basketball?
6.) If you missed only 8 minutes of the UNC-Duke game, what did you really miss?
7.) It's good to see a local station doing local news.
No, not a jealous husker fan
No, not a CU hater, was going to the games during the Eddie Sutton days, where were you??
It was on KMTV. I saw it. If you didn't watch, then watch the sports
It is local, so duh, the local media will cover it, I'm glad they did
Come on, admit it, it was OVERKILL!!!!!!
No, it's not overkill.
Considering that Creighton's biggest sport is basketball. And Creighton's biggest sport just clinched a spot in college basketball's national championship tournament.
They are one of only 65 teams that have a shot to win it all, and though their odds are very, very long. They still have that chance.
It was important enough to merit a little extra postgame.
You didn't miss anything that important from the Duke Blue Bloods so just let it go....
Just let it go....
6:03pm said "Worse though was highlights of the post game celebration I saw on the 5:30 Channel 6 news. Since they are so cheap they use the internet to send back video instead of satellite their clips were totally pixelated during the heavy action and really looked like they were shot with a cell phone camera. They have really taken cheap to a new level."
Here someone goes picking on Channel 6 again.
Where's the matching post whining about the lower video quality of the I-80 bizzard report Owen Lei "emailed" back to KETV while "embedded" with the Iowa National Guard?
Missouri Valley basketball is just plain ugly to watch. A great season for that conference is to get one team to the Sweet 16. Look at any other major conference and that would be a horrible, down season.
I don't fault the coverage at all. I just think the fans of Creighton (Nebraska Football)are very predictable.
I watched the game on KOLN/KGIN. 10/11 viewers only missed about 4 or 5 minutes of the Duke/NC game. Just a thought if you live within the 10/11 viewing area. ;)
Didn't Indiana State win a national championship?
No, Indiana State lost to Michigan State in the "Bird/Magic" final in 1979.
The Owen Lai report was using new technology to cover a story that otherwise could not be covered. Also, it was actually higher quality. The channel 6 video was so bad because they cheaped out, there was no technical reason to not use the best technology.
12:38 pm:
Thanks for the info on that. By the way, I wasn't trying to be sarcastic, I really wasn't certain.
Creighton used to draw 4,000 per game less than 10 years ago. Now they average 15,000.
Yes...I would say that fits in the "bandwagon" category..unless you can prove to me that Omaha has grown by 400 or so percent.
Suprised Jay "fans" (aka Husker fans in the fall) were able to pay attention between sips of Zima. And yes, you know what I'm talking about.
12:54 pm -- Would that new technology Owen Lei used be a firewire cable between video camera and laptop PC, and a USB cable between laptop PC and 3G cell phone? Acually, probably much safer than taking the KETV Live truck.
Channel 6's coverage at 10pm didn't seem to have poor video quality. Maybe instead of cheap, they had to go to Plan "B" because of technical problems?
Editing on laptops and using internet and cell phone networks to send back footage is absolutely new technology and the future of TV news. Many stations are going to tapeless acquisition and non-linear laptop editing. In a few years with 4G cell networks every crew will have live capabilities. The Jan. NPPA News Photographer magazine has a good article about tapeless acquisition and laptop editing if you would like to learn more.
WOWT low quality was not a one time technical problem I have seen the low quality internet transmitted (badly compressed with lots of motion artifacts) video many times with them.
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