Fuck you. Ok? Fuck. You. I am sick of your shit. I'd really like to see a good game at 1PM today. The Bengals/Ravens game would be ideal. I'd even settle for the Colts/Texans game, even though I never thought those words would come from my mouth.

Do I get to see either of these promising match-ups? No. No I don't. Instead, I get another fucking Patriots game shoved down my throat. Super. Granted, you aren't solely responsible for this, but you're still at fault. The first SIX weeks of the season, our market got the following games: NE/BUF, NE/NYJ, ATL/NE, BAL/NE, NE/DEN, and TEN/NE. In fact, the only two weekends we were fortunate enough NOT to see New England play, they were in London frapping the Bucs, and at home on their Bye week.

But nooooo. Here we are again, Week 9 getting another Patriots game. HELLLLOOO! MCFLY!!!! WE ARE NO WHERE NEAR NEW ENGLAND! You are aware there are some other teams in the AFC, right? In fact, there are about 9 other AFC teams closer to our market than New England. Get your shit together and stop this. There is still time.

-Sayer

11/8/2009 10:24:39 AM

tww threads are magical portals to the email addresses of those for whom they are attention'd

11/8/2009 10:27:52 AM

signed.


except I have the bal/cin game here. I know what you mean, though. Look at the TV Map and you'll see that almost the entire western half of the country gets the ne/mia game.

11/8/2009 10:29:02 AM

i actually looked through CBS's website to see if I could figure out where to send an email. Got disgruntled and decided to vent here instead.

11/8/2009 10:33:51 AM

thanks for this post, I felt the exact same way when I looked at the map today

11/8/2009 11:03:07 AM

CBS is a "free" channel, right? in other words, a channel you don't have to pay extra in order to watch

11/8/2009 11:18:45 AM

NE/Buf was on MNF not cbs

[Edited on November 8, 2009 at 11:42 AM. Reason : ]

11/8/2009 11:41:30 AM

and ATL/NE was on fox

11/8/2009 11:45:29 AM

If it makes you feel any better. I have the Sunday Ticket with Superfan and will be watching the Bengals vs. Ravens.

I can't wait.

Sorry.

11/8/2009 11:54:31 AM

i believe the local station picks the game if there is no local game. so, its wral's fault.

11/8/2009 12:03:07 PM

I'm with sayer here. The local game selections have been absolutely piss poor the last few weeks. I

11/8/2009 12:54:58 PM

Fuck Yeah!

11/8/2009 12:56:25 PM

How long has the O.P. lived around here? You should have come to terms with the fact that the teams we get each week are the Panthers, the Steelers, the Patriots and at least two NFC East teams. That's just how it works around here.

11/8/2009 1:04:44 PM

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"the local station picks the game if there is no local game. so, its wral's fault."

11/8/2009 1:12:52 PM

ill also add that cbs loves the tarheels something fierce.

fuck RAYCOM

11/8/2009 1:29:12 PM

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"NE/Buf was on MNF not cbs"

Quote :

"and ATL/NE was on fox"

Learn to read dumbasses.

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"Granted, you aren't solely responsible for this, but you're still at fault."

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"How long has the O.P. lived around here? You should have come to terms with the fact that the teams we get each week are the Panthers, the Steelers, the Patriots and at least two NFC East teams. That's just how it works around here."

I've been in Raleigh 21 years, and no it hasn't always been this way. We've always gotten the Panther's game since they originated as a franchise, because they're the local team. I'm not complaining about that level of coverage, it makes sense. They're the local team, we should see them play every week.

Behind the Panthers, we've gotten more Pats games than any other team in the league. It's fucking retarded. Just because they've been successful this decade, doesn't mean that a majority of the country wants to see them play. If you've a local affiliate, and you get to pick between 3-4 games, wouldn't you want to pick a good match-up? I would have put both indy/houston and baltimore/cincy above new england/maimi. A couple of weeks ago, we were forced to watch more than 3 quarters of the Pats buttfucking the titans while closer, better games were on.

Whoever is making these decisions needs to be drug out into the street and shot repeatedly.

11/8/2009 7:12:15 PM

Quote :

"Just because they've been successful this decade, doesn't mean that a majority of the country wants to see them play. "

sadly, it does

i would rather see a better game, and i am also sick to death of seeing tom brady win over shitty afc teams but you can thank bandwagon nation for that

11/8/2009 7:29:11 PM

Quote :

"ill also add that cbs loves the tarheels something fierce. fuck RAYCOM"

Two completely seperate entities.

11/8/2009 7:53:42 PM

$7 for NFL redzone on dish network is instantly worth it as soon as you get screwed on the 2nd 1PM game.

11/8/2009 8:46:18 PM

They'll be on NBC next week. But CBS is still giving us an inferior game IMO. (Denver-Washington instead of Cincinnati-Pittsburgh)

11/9/2009 5:56:14 AM

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"the local station picks the game if there is no local game. so, its wral's fault."

11/9/2009 7:30:56 AM

Dear CBS,

Why the fuck are you showing the WAS/DEN game? The best 1PM match-up is the Steelers and the Bengals. Why are you showing a match-up featuring a team that has lost it's last 2 straight, and one of the worst teams in the league?

You are fucking retarded, yet again.

11/15/2009 1:00:38 PM

^^

11/15/2009 1:01:51 PM

oh i'm sorry, is wral not a cbs station?

11/15/2009 1:04:09 PM

WRAL is an affiliate of CBS, yes

WRAL is not CBS

11/15/2009 1:06:00 PM

no but they're showing cbs's coverage of nfl football, it's not wral's coverage of the football game

so thank you for being a pretentious douchebag and splitting hairs, but even past the minute technicalities, you still can understand what I'm talking about

11/15/2009 1:10:12 PM

WRAL is not CBS

11/15/2009 1:15:08 PM

newsflash

you live in/near a market where the redskins were the most popular team before the panthers and still have many fans in the area

11/15/2009 1:24:58 PM

Quote :

"no but they're showing cbs's coverage of nfl football, it's not wral's coverage of the football game"

We're not talking about camera work and commentating; we're talking about who picks the games you're seeing. That's WRAL, not CBS.

11/15/2009 1:25:53 PM

I thought maybe we were just misunderstanding one another. Then I looked up and saw this.

Quote :

"i actually looked through CBS's website to see if I could figure out where to send an email. Got disgruntled and decided to vent here instead. "

11/15/2009 1:27:07 PM

The network is the ultimate decider in which games get shown where, not the local affiliates. Affiliates can request specific games, but they are at the discretion of the actual network.

11/15/2009 9:16:59 PM

I was under the impression the affiliate could pretty much pull down whatever feed they wanted, as long as there aren't contract issues (like the NFL's gay blackout rules). I feel like WRAL has told CBS where to stick it a few times in regards to what basketball games to show.

11/15/2009 9:53:42 PM

I really don't think the affiliates choose. Otherwise the coverage maps would be so sporadic with different games instead of regions being dominated by one game.

11/15/2009 9:55:56 PM

Haha, its not like they're going to bother to go out and ask each station which one they're planning to show and then build the coverage map. The coverage map would just tell you what the normal feed would be for that region.

11/15/2009 10:02:48 PM

Go look at coverage maps week for week. If local alliliates can choose which game they want, then the maps would be a checkerboard clusterfuck of different games shown. They're not. They're extremely uniform. The networks choose which games are shown where.

11/15/2009 11:04:17 PM

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"I was under the impression the affiliate could pretty much pull down whatever feed they wanted, as long as there aren't contract issues (like the NFL's gay blackout rules). I feel like WRAL has told CBS where to stick it a few times in regards to what basketball games to show."

ding

11/15/2009 11:29:05 PM

The networks on the national level choose what games to show where, not the local affiliates.

11/16/2009 12:22:00 AM

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"Who decides what games get shown in my area? The networks, with some guidance from the NFL. The league sets "primary markets" and "secondary markets" for most teams, and those markets are required to show all road games involving the "local" team. Primary markets are required to air home games too, unless they don't sell out. The "primary market" is the market in which the team is physically located (i.e. Boston for the Patriots). The "secondary markets" are adjoining markets assigned at the discretion of the league (again using the Patriots example, Providence). Secondary markets are not required to air home games, and if there's another team nearby, they don't. Not all markets are designated by one team or another as a secondary market (in fact, most aren't), usually only the ones closest to the stadium -- the ones that would be blacked out if not a sellout. Other markets can air one team’s games more often than not, but that rule isn’t set in stone. Some stats about airing patterns: 2005, 2006. Harrisburg PA is a good example. Because Baltimore is the closest team, the NFL has designated it a Ravens secondary market. However, the stations there have noticed there are more Steelers fans. So the CBS affiliate there, despite having to air Ravens *road* games in case of a Steelers conflict (and enduring the wrath of the local fans every time it happens), they do air the Steelers whenever the Ravens play at *home*. Outside of these primary and secondary markets, and even in them if the local team isn't playing, the network is the sole arbiter of what game gets shown where, but usually after taking input from the local affiliates. Affiliates can request a particular game be shown to their market, and the network will (usually) agree unless it runs against the secondary market rules. The CBS affiliate in Orlando in 2005, after several desperate attempts, couldn't show a Dolphins-Buccaneers game because, for some reason, the NFL said Orlando is a Jaguars market. As I said earlier, stations in the 32 team markets are not allowed to air a game if the other network has a local team's home game at the same time. Instead, they have to air one in the other timeslot. The rule does not specifically apply if the local team is on the road, but that's on the doubleheader network, the singleheader network usually airs a game in the opposite timeslot. This is usually how those Raiders-Texans duds end up on the air in Cleveland."

http://the506.com/nflmaps/

11/16/2009 12:27:21 AM

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"But CBS is still giving us an inferior game IMO. (Denver-Washington instead of Cincinnati-Pittsburgh)"

Yeah, we got the Raiders/Chiefs in Charlotte, so I don't want to hear it. The only good thing is Gus Johnson was at that game. Unfortunately, Steve Tasker, the analyst, was God-awful. He questioned whether Oakland should go for it on 3rd down.

11/16/2009 1:28:52 AM

And thanks again to CBS, we will be seeing yet another New England game this weekend. This makes 9 out of 11 weeks we've had a Patriots game aired in our market, the second most behind the Panthers.

OH BUT WAIT! If you don't get the NFL Network like a vast majoring of people in NC, then you didn't even see tonight's game! So at this point, a team 1100 miles away from us has the same number of broadcasts in our area as our home fucking team?! SERIOUSLY?!?!

And a preemptive fuck-u-very-much to the NFL for scheduling NE for back to back Mon/Sun night games, there-by force-feeding us all two more weeks of this team. At least we can hold out hope that the NFL exercises the flex schedule for that Sunday game and changes it to a different match-up.

Thanks for the variety.

Fucking

Awesome

11/20/2009 12:41:36 AM

where's my violin?

[Edited on November 20, 2009 at 12:56 AM. Reason : i do feel your pain though]

11/20/2009 12:54:56 AM

this REALLY is shitty. Jets/Pats instead of the game of the week Chargers/Broncos for the lead of the AFC west?

Garbage.

11/20/2009 10:29:50 AM

Are they seriously showing Pats Fags V. Jets instead of the AFC West rivalry match up Broncos v Chargers.

Fuck CBS. Half the time on Sunday they get lazy and do not show a 4pm game anyway; just to air Celebrity Dancing 10 or some garbage.

Perhaps I will not even watch football Sunday since the Panthers played in the retarted NFL network Thursday game

11/20/2009 12:25:35 PM

http://www.wral.com/apps/feedback/feedback/?d_id_person=445

11/20/2009 12:34:07 PM

I have Sunday Ticket w/ Superfan. I will be watching all other games outside of the Patriots.

You should know this.

11/20/2009 12:37:33 PM

Quote :

"Half the time on Sunday they get lazy and do not show a 4pm game anyway"

i don't think you understand how nfl tv coverage works

11/20/2009 12:46:20 PM

I can't wait for the day that people realize that the networks can only show 3 games per sunday

11/20/2009 12:47:06 PM

^^It's HUR, he doesn't understand just about everything he rants about on TWW.

^I think most people do understand that. We would just prefer not to be forcefed the fucking AFC East every goddamn week.

Here are the CBS AFC games that have aired locally over the last few weeks and the games they could have played and most of us (I would argue most NFL fans) would have prefered.

Week 9

MIA v NE over a key Cinc v Bal game. Hell I would have rather watched Indy v Houston too

Week 10

Denver v Wash over Cincy v Pitt

Week 11

NE v Jets over SD v Den



[Edited on November 20, 2009 at 1:05 PM. Reason : d]

11/20/2009 12:47:38 PM

The only people who don't understand are the asshats sitting up in their skyscraper in NYC at the CBS HQ.

Dear CBS

Just b.c some of your buddies moved down to NC to be yankee transplants does not mean we ALL want to watch the fucking NY/NE teams every weekend. In fact people down here hate the north and do not share in your fondness for cheaters like Bill Billichek (new england) or any team from New York.

Thanks

HUR


If anything i'd say there are more Broncos fans than Pats fans down here.

11/20/2009 12:52:19 PM

I hope you didn't actually send that. Jesus Christ you are a moron.

11/20/2009 12:59:17 PM