Television schedule is out

[Dead_Real]

I'll make sure to call Saturday nice job chef

[ziggy]

Hey Guys,

I'm willing to use this site as a platform to draw some attention to those that are being screwed by the TV situation.

Let me know what I can do to help.

[spectre]

This is happening all over the state and it looks like it's based on that region thing. Some of the posters over at the Observer have chimed in:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/for...yCurrentPage=0

Mcleansville, NC - DirectTV
Asheville, NC - Dish Network

According to DirectTV's site everyone east of Burlington is also screwed.

Zig I've sent a PM to Mr. Thompson but he hasn't answered yet. If you know his email could you maybe give him a heads up and point to this thread?

[Jeff41]

Once again BLACKED OUT here in Winston-Salem NC The game is being shown on channel 451 on Dish Network as a SportSouth alternate, but it's blocked out. I've called Dish 9-10 times and supposedly they've sent in 3 engineering reports and still nothing but a blackout message. The guy I spoke to earlier this afternoon said they wouldn't even be showing the game and I said I SEE IT ON CHANNEL 451 IN THE GUIDE, YOU ARE SHOWING IT! And he said that there would be nothing on channel 451 So I said, if there's nothing on channel 451, then unblock the channel and I'll watch the supposed "nothing" that's there and he then started this "blackouts are determined by leagues to protect.. blah blah". Unable to watch the Cavs game, unable to watch tonight's Heat game. Someone is royally screwing up and NO ONE wants to take blame for it. Tired of it, all I want to do is watch the Bobcats games. I've also left two messages with Fox Sports South.

[Mr Guy]

Fortunately the next series of games are FSN games and are being reported as being on channel 50 for TWC customers in Raleigh, including pre and postgame.

I still don't know what we're supposed to do for the SportSouth games. Do they just magically show up unlisted on some random channel if they show up at all? I have no idea how to schedule them to record if I can't guess where they'll be!

[Chef]

sorry guy, but we are getting the hurricanes on channel 50 starting at 730. i spoke to TWC and the guy said we are blacked out for all games. unless someone at the bobcats front office makes some changes, we will not see any bobcats games unless they are on tnt, espn or nba tv.

[Muttley]

sorry guy, but we are getting the hurricanes on channel 50 starting at 730. i spoke to TWC and the guy said we are blacked out for all games. unless someone at the bobcats front office makes some changes, we will not see any bobcats games unless they are on tnt, espn or nba tv.

F*&% THAT!

They better be playing this damn game. I am so sick of this $#!+. GOOD LORD, just show the freaking basketball games!

... Sorry, not your fault chef.

[Chef]

just spoke to someone at the bobcats exec office (it might be michael thompson (see the other tv related post)). basically, the deal is that the bobcats sold the distribution rights to fox sports and all broadcasting issues are now completely out of their hands. time warner, direct tv, dish etc buys the rights to show the games from fox sports. so, long story short we need to complain to the cable companies and fox sports. personally, i think this is a futile undertaking as many posts on this board and others i have read about situations like this in other sporting markets seem to have the cable company blaming fox sports and fox sports blaming the cable company.

in a side note, i have a friend with direct tv and he said that you can change your billing location and get the local channels for that city. so, if you have a friend or relative in atlanta, washington, etc you can look into changing your billing to that area and then getting league pass and you will be able to see the bobcats. not sure about all the details because i have time warner.

[Chef]

just got off the phone with a rep at fox sports south, very helpful. she was just reading michael's email. it doesn't look like sports south will be an option for trianglers. she is looking into the possibility of opening a local channel, like news 14, for us to get the other 31 games that are on sports south. so it looks like progress could happen.

i was mistaken earlier. the yahoo internet listings have us with carolina hockey, but time warners listings have us getting the cats on channel 50.

[spectre]

just spoke to someone at the bobcats exec office (it might be michael thompson (see the other tv related post)). basically, the deal is that the bobcats sold the distribution rights to fox sports and all broadcasting issues are now completely out of their hands. time warner, direct tv, dish etc buys the rights to show the games from fox sports. so, long story short we need to complain to the cable companies and fox sports. personally, i think this is a futile undertaking as many posts on this board and others i have read about situations like this in other sporting markets seem to have the cable company blaming fox sports and fox sports blaming the cable company.

You are fucking kidding me. The Bobcats at least have a line with Fox Sports, yet they say they "can't do anything" and puts it on US to go thru the neverending loop of fingerpointing that most of us have been getting for the past week?

If it's a "misunderstanding" as they're saying then it's up to THEM to get this fixed.

Chef...what's the phone # for Fox Sports? I need to represent the sat folks.