Official NFL network sucks thread

[jtd9046]

I'd rather not have them pretend to know what they're talking about for a pre and post game show on college football.

And come on, let's be real here. As far as entertainment value, this match up was not very good at all. You would not have seen a pre game or post game show for this bowl on ESPN either. It would have been lumped in with all the other stuff.

 

[BryceC]

I for one loved the NFL network broadcast today, they did a great job.

 

[michaelrr1]

I felt the exact same way...it was not good sports entertainment. Now I hate the ESPN monoply just as much as everyone else, but this just shows the night/day entertainment broadcasting that ESPN is able to produce over everyone else. Seriously, if you have a game on...you talk about that instead of old NFL news that has been told and retold. They took advantage of none of the perks that come with broadcasting a college football bowl. And, like you said, begs the question of why they would want it in the first place. I am especially angry at the lack of pregame and postgame. They rush off like they have another game to get to! I was furious.

NFL Network = FAIL in broadcasting college sports.

:biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh:

 

[Cycsk]

It was very anti-climactic to have no post-game show. I thought the NFL stuff was just a commercial or promo for a later show, but it kept going and going.

WOI must have paid for 4 hours of NFL Network feed and just showed what they showed. A nice local post-game feature by WOI would have been nice.

 

[zmanzbo]

Wow just watched the game for the first time since getting back. That was a terrible excuse for a broadcast. You could tell they just couldn't wait to get back to NFL content, not even showing the trophy presentation or talking about the game afterwords weak.

This game needs to be moved to a different network.

 

[garn91]

Will I get it in Sac County?

Other than through the NFL Network on Dish Network or DirecTV or perhaps via rabbit ears, nope. Sac County is in the Sioux City DMA.


After the fact, just out of curiosity, I wonderd how this work. If Mediacom had to have blacked out WOI to say those in SW Iowa, how do they control the issue of those who received it OTA?

Case in point with Sac County. My grandparents lived in Auburn and always watched the Des Moines locals, even though they by law, Sac County is in the Sioux City DMA (yet Carroll & Calhoun counties are in the Des Moines DMA). So depending on one's location, were you able to watch the game on OTA Channel 5 from a neighboring DMA (Sioux City, Cedar Rapids, etc)?

BTW, I feel for those who live in the Ottumwa area. That area is so damn hilly, makes it hard to pull in the Des Moines locals OTA and as the article from the Ottumwa newspaper pointed out, that area is really screwed when it comes to local TV reception, espcially with satellite as neither DirecTV or Dish Network by law can offer Des Moines or Cedar Rapids locals to that area.

 

[Rods79]

:biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh:

:biglaugh: Yeah, well when you are already close to that point during the game, it isn't hard to put you over the top.