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TV CW 18 Basketball has risen to a new level???

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:roll: TV CW 18 in Missoula and Kalispell :roll: I think I heard somewhere that if you can not say somthin nice say not at all. I really was looking forward to the introduction of the basketball season but do not know what CW 18 is and believe it or not do not get it. If you do not get it it is Colts and Chargers maybe an option.
 
CW 18 is a sister station to CBS, so that means you should have it (even people with only over-the-air signal should receive it as CBS and PBS (5 times over) have been in every market I've been to). Also, means should expect Phil Buck and KPAX crew to do the production.
 
It is pretty pathetic. Dish Network here in Billings does not carrry CW network. Instead the local feed KTVQ is showing "Game Show In My Head". Griz sports have kind of gotten the shaft this year with the CW stuff.

Is Big Sky showing the games?
 
This is absolutely ridiculous! Sorry, but if KPAX's "little sister" is the only option for Griz games, then my opinion is that UM may as well just skip it. All too many people don't get CW (like me), so why bother pretending to give the games statewide coverage.
 
'68griz said:
This is absolutely ridiculous! Sorry, but if KPAX's "little sister" is the only option for Griz games, then my opinion is that UM may as well just skip it. All too many people don't get CW (like me), so why bother pretending to give the games statewide coverage.
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Just skip it? You can just skip it, how 'bout that? You have stated here that you are not much of a basketball fan so not seeing tonights game shouldn't bother you too much.
 
You're right, 19, I'm not as much of a basketball fan as a football fan. However, I have either watched or attended EVERY Griz-Cat basketball game, both men's and women's, for as long as I can remember. So, yes, not being able to watch this afternoon's and tonight's games would be a major disappointment for me. HOWEVER, with some searching and a cranky phone call to a friend, I discovered that we do indeed get the games, so I will be watching after all. Nonetheless, I think it's crummy that the Griz games have been relegated to the CW, as the first several games of the football season were.
 
Yeah, it is a little dissapointing not getting the quality (HD) we got for the last two games of the football season. But I don't care too much just as long as the game is on. I couldn't make it to Missoula tonight, so it's the best we get.
 
KPAX can only pre-empt so many CBS programs, so it is possible that KPAX can't show the basketball games, thus moving them to CW. Pre-empt too many games and KPAX loses their afiliation with CBS and loses money.
 
GrizBBIsKing said:
KPAX can only pre-empt so many CBS programs, so it is possible that KPAX can't show the basketball games, thus moving them to CW. Pre-empt too many games and KPAX loses their afiliation with CBS and loses money.
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I think they have aired them in the past. Plus, doesn't the network the Cats are on show the game from Bozeman? This would probably be the only game of the year that KPAX would air a Griz BB game unless they do something with the BSC tourney. Perhaps the contract has changed or something. That Satuday night CBS lineup is filled with heavyweights. :D
 
KPAX every year has an extra 1 to 3 weeks to accomodate every year in football in Missoula that Bozeman affiliates very seldom have to plan for. Maybe that to explains why Altitude picked up a playoff game this year too. What is the lesser of 2 evils, sacrificing a GRIZ basketball game or sacrificing a GRIZ football game? As a basketball fan, I hate to admit what the true answer is, so you answer it for yourself.

I personally just hope for Bigskytv to work every game now for as long as I live in Denver. I will move back to Missoula again too, then I too can complain about who airs what. I will trade any of you places as for how I would prefer to watch the GRIZ.
 
blame Fullerton - 2 of 3 biggest games in the BSC are 1st weekend of January - complete BS that is the current BSC - but at least we get to try for a championship yea BSC and I-AA!
 
I understand the business reasons for the CW channel, but for many of us living outside of larger cities in Montana - in rural areas or in small towns, CW = no coverage, even on DISH network. :( SURELY there is some other option, at least for Cat/Griz games??

Does anyone know if UM has to sign an exclusive contract with one station? Any chance the NBC or ABC affiliates could carry some games? Anybody out there to give us some education on how this works?
 
grizbymarriage said:
I understand the business reasons for the CW channel, but for many of us living outside of larger cities in Montana - in rural areas or in small towns, CW = no coverage, even on DISH network. :( SURELY there is some other option, at least for Cat/Griz games??

Does anyone know if UM has to sign an exclusive contract with one station? Any chance the NBC or ABC affiliates could carry some games? Anybody out there to give us some education on how this works?
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In years past KECI covered some games that KPAX didn't or couldn't. But, KPAX is the only one bidding on them right now and KPAX can't cover all of them. So, to show the games to as many fans as possible (which certainly isn't satisfactory a lot of fans), KPAX has to have CW cover what KPAX can't.
 
Thanks, GrizBBIsKing. That gives me some hope!!

I am going to start a letter-writing campaign to the ABC and NBC affiliates in the state to encourage them to consider picking up the GRIZ football games KPAX can't as well as the Cat/Griz basketball games as a start. Never hurts to ask!

Griz football benefits tremendously from that statewide television coverage - there were plenty of folks in Chattanooga like us who are too far from Missoula to get to a lot of games in person but who travelled to the NC game; it would be great to get some additional fans interested in Griz basketball.

Thanks again!!
 
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