sports.yahoo.com - 10/19/2008
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10. It was a very specia l "Steve Harvey Show." 9. Tropicana Field forgot to pay cable bill. 8. Aunt Bea from "Andy Griffith" takes up way too much bandwith. 7. Aging Ted Turner messing around in TV truck unnecessarily trying to colorize live programming that's already in ...
bizofbaseball.com - 10/20/2008
bizofbaseball.com - 10/19/2008
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bizofbaseball.com —
UPDATE : The game finally got on the
air at 8:28pm ET with the Rays up 1-0....
For those that are tuning into TBS to catch Game 6 of the ALCS, you may be asking why you’re seeing Dick Clark’s Bloopers or The Steve Harvey Show , it appears TBS is having technical difficulties . As of 8:15 pm ...
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TBS Experiences Technical Difficulties Getting ALCS Game ...
sportsontheair.blogspot.com - 10/19/2008
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sportsontheair.blogspot.com —
Athens, GA (Oct 18, 2008) - At 10:02
PM ET , Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) issued this...
statement about their technical problems that caused a delay in their coverage of Game 6 of the American League Championship Series between the Red Sox and Rays: Two circuit breakers in our Atlanta ...
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TBS Issues Statement on Technical Problem, Apologizes To ...
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TBS Baseball Coverage: EPIC FAIL [MLB]
Deadspin —
... impacted our live feed from being distributed to any of the other networks in the Turner portfolio and caused the delay in our coverage. Both our primary and backup routers were impacted by this problem. We apologize to baseball fans for this mishap that caused a delay in our coverage." The first pitch of Game Seven is penciled in for about 8:15 tonight. Does anybody know when Frank TV usually comes on? Game 6 TV broadcast interrupted [MLB.com] Top 10 'difficulties' TBS had with start of ALCS broadcast [Big League Stew] ...
Daily Dump: 2 Chase’s 1 Cup, Lou Holtz Is Sorry, Austin GameDay Signs, TBS Game 6 Issues And Playboy Guitar Hero
Busted Coverage: Booze, Ladies And Football —
... and find him looking like a mountainman with some weird beard.
It was a crazy night and your loyal blogger only had one beer.
Daily Dump:
Lou Holtz can make Hitler references without consequences [Deadspin]
Major signage on the loose in Austin for GameDay [TV Tan Line]
The Top 20 signs seen in Austin [Las Vegas Football Jesus]
Top 10 ‘Issues’ TBS had getting Game 6 on the air [Big League Stew]
Rays now in driver’s seat to choke on 3-1 lead [ ...
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