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March 1, 2007
Divided We Stand
From the Washington Post, we have an editorial that gets right down to brass tacks: our government is subject to vicious partisan division because we are.
And speaking of bitter divisions, Carolina and Dook will collide again on Sunday.
Is it just me, or are the televised broadcasts of NCAA, and ACC in particular, hoops much lower quality this year???? Watching the Maryland game this past week, it felt as if Tyler Hansborough was barely in focus for much of the game.
And here comes my rant for the week: the FCC's blackouts for locally televised sporting events CHEAT THE CONSUMER!!! I paid for ESPN HD in large part so that I could watch Carolina in HD. The last Carolina-Duke game was nationally televised throughout the nation on ESPN HD-except in the Chapel Hill-Durham area. Why? Because Jefferson-Pilot sports was televising it locally, and hence ESPN apparently had to block it out.
However, Jefferson-Pilot sports provided the crappiest, low-rent non-HD feed. The game was actually painful to watch. In other words, they did not provide a local substitute for the product WE PAID FOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice job FCC. Whatever side you are on, it is clearly not that of the consumer. This was state sanctioned theft of something we paid for, pure and simple.
Posted by dag at March 1, 2007 10:28 AM