Watching the game on TV

[Zipgrad01]

You really need to look at it from the stations point of view.If they are running a show that is getting bad ratings, they cancel the show. Sure there are some people that like that show and are upset, but there isn't enough of them to keep the show on.If you were the station and had no affiliation to either program and yourj ob was to make the most money from advertisers, would you show the Akron game and tick off 250,000 OSU fans or show the OSU game and tick off 25000 Akron fans?Now, I don't know what happened on TV. If you are saying that they cut away from the Akron game at the end to merely show the OSU/NW pregame, then I agree, that's BS.

Here is another way the station may have looking at it. It's actually more reasonable than what you presented.The Big Ten sucks and a game between OSU and NW is a pointless excercise. Since there are so many idiots stupid enough to center their Saturday afternoon around watching this stupidity, they had better get the first five minutes on before the blowout takes place and everyone turns their TV off.There is absolutely no excuse for the station turning off what was a great game for a meaningless game.

While I like your enthusiasm, I hate to say that YOU are the one that is off. If you polled the state of Ohio, 90% of the population would say "Turn off the meaningless Akron-Can't game that nobody cares about so we can watch the pre-game for OSU's Big Ten opener."Seriously, Akron was 1-2 and Can't was 2-2. How can you possibly come up with the notion that game was more meaningful than a team ranked in the top 8 in the country opening conference play? While I whole heartedly agree that the Northwestern game would render to be worthless, most Buckeye fans really don't care. When OSU is undefeated and ranked in the top 10 their games will ALWAYS be the priority on television no matter who they play.Put the shoe on the other foot. Say Akron was ranked #8 in the country and opening conference play with Buffalo. OSU was 1-2 and playing Illinois. Would you be upset if they kept the OSU game on instead of switching to the Akron game?Saying all this.....I think it was absolutely rotten what channel 5 did. If you decide to put a game on television you show it until completion and I don't care who comes on after the fact. If it is that big of a deal, run the entire OSU game on tape delay so nobody misses EITHER game. Maybe somebody misses a late evening re-run, but Akron and OSU fans would BOTH be happy.I am not defending Akron or OSU on this. Honestly, I 100% blame channel 5. However, to say that people are idiots to plan their day around a Buckeye game because you consider it meaningless is rather elitist of you. Who are you to say who the public should want to watch? Obviously, you are upset that 90% of the state chooses to believe the Buckeyes are their priority and not the Zips. Akron couldn't even get a sell out on an 80 degree day against their rival that is 20 minutes away with a small stadium that had 6 sections tarped off. Yet YOU think they should be the priority in the publics eyes. lolI think the public speaks volumes about which team is the priority. Just look at ticket sales, merchandise sales, etc...Before you start ripping on me I want you to know. I was AT the Rubber Bowl watching the Zips. I chose my #1 priority. I just dvr'ed the Buckeyes game to watch later.

[ZachTheZip]

You really need to look at it from the stations point of view.If they are running a show that is getting bad ratings, they cancel the show. Sure there are some people that like that show and are upset, but there isn't enough of them to keep the show on.If you were the station and had no affiliation to either program and yourj ob was to make the most money from advertisers, would you show the Akron game and tick off 250,000 OSU fans or show the OSU game and tick off 25000 Akron fans?Now, I don't know what happened on TV. If you are saying that they cut away from the Akron game at the end to merely show the OSU/NW pregame, then I agree, that's BS.

Here is another way the station may have looking at it. It's actually more reasonable than what you presented.The Big Ten sucks and a game between OSU and NW is a pointless excercise. Since there are so many idiots stupid enough to center their Saturday afternoon around watching this stupidity, they had better get the first five minutes on before the blowout takes place and everyone turns their TV off.There is absolutely no excuse for the station turning off what was a great game for a meaningless game.

While I like your enthusiasm, I hate to say that YOU are the one that is off. If you polled the state of Ohio, 90% of the population would say "Turn off the meaningless Akron-Can't game that nobody cares about so we can watch the pre-game for OSU's Big Ten opener."Seriously, Akron was 1-2 and Can't was 2-2. How can you possibly come up with the notion that game was more meaningful than a team ranked in the top 8 in the country opening conference play? While I whole heartedly agree that the Northwestern game would render to be worthless, most Buckeye fans really don't care. When OSU is undefeated and ranked in the top 10 their games will ALWAYS be the priority on television no matter who they play.Put the shoe on the other foot. Say Akron was ranked #8 in the country and opening conference play with Buffalo. OSU was 1-2 and playing Illinois. Would you be upset if they kept the OSU game on instead of switching to the Akron game?Saying all this.....I think it was absolutely rotten what channel 5 did. If you decide to put a game on television you show it until completion and I don't care who comes on after the fact. If it is that big of a deal, run the entire OSU game on tape delay so nobody misses EITHER game. Maybe somebody misses a late evening re-run, but Akron and OSU fans would BOTH be happy.I am not defending Akron or OSU on this. Honestly, I 100% blame channel 5. However, to say that people are idiots to plan their day around a Buckeye game because you consider it meaningless is rather elitist of you. Who are you to say who the public should want to watch? Obviously, you are upset that 90% of the state chooses to believe the Buckeyes are their priority and not the Zips. Akron couldn't even get a sell out on an 80 degree day against their rival that is 20 minutes away with a small stadium that had 6 sections tarped off. Yet YOU think they should be the priority in the publics eyes. lolI think the public speaks volumes about which team is the priority. Just look at ticket sales, merchandise sales, etc...Before you start ripping on me I want you to know. I was AT the Rubber Bowl watching the Zips. I chose my #1 priority. I just dvr'ed the Buckeyes game to watch later.

I blame Chanel 5 for this disaster, unless it was a decision made higher up somewhere, but seeing how the game was shown in its entirety on the COLUMBUS station that was carrying it, I doubt that is the case.Here's my beef: This is a Cleveland station, and Akron and Can't State have fanbases contained almost entirely within it's broadcast range. People in Columbus don't get this channel. The most exciting time in the game that concerned many thousands of people totally contained in thier viewing area was cut off to show a bunch of idiot talking heads talk about a game that wasn't even being played at the time. In fact, our game ended before the OSU game ever kicked off.People wonder why UA is viewed as "second-fiddle", it's because of decisions like this made by the media, not just chanel 5 but also the ABJ, all the other TV news stations, and the radio news/sports guys to completely ignore us. Clevelanders root for OSU because that is what is on TV. They look down upon Akron because TV stations pre-empt our games to talk about an OSU game that isn't even being played yet, so they get the ideas that they have about us.Sorry guys, but there is a lot of frustration I am harboring over the idiot media. The only thing we can do to change it is to STAND UP and be counted. STAND UP for our school, and for it's fans. They can't do it themselves either because they are too apathetic to care, or because they have been subjected to this sh*t for so long that they just shrug their shoulders and accept it.

[Zipgrad01]

You really need to look at it from the stations point of view.If they are running a show that is getting bad ratings, they cancel the show. Sure there are some people that like that show and are upset, but there isn't enough of them to keep the show on.If you were the station and had no affiliation to either program and yourj ob was to make the most money from advertisers, would you show the Akron game and tick off 250,000 OSU fans or show the OSU game and tick off 25000 Akron fans?Now, I don't know what happened on TV. If you are saying that they cut away from the Akron game at the end to merely show the OSU/NW pregame, then I agree, that's BS.

Here is another way the station may have looking at it. It's actually more reasonable than what you presented.The Big Ten sucks and a game between OSU and NW is a pointless excercise. Since there are so many idiots stupid enough to center their Saturday afternoon around watching this stupidity, they had better get the first five minutes on before the blowout takes place and everyone turns their TV off.There is absolutely no excuse for the station turning off what was a great game for a meaningless game.

While I like your enthusiasm, I hate to say that YOU are the one that is off. If you polled the state of Ohio, 90% of the population would say "Turn off the meaningless Akron-Can't game that nobody cares about so we can watch the pre-game for OSU's Big Ten opener."Seriously, Akron was 1-2 and Can't was 2-2. How can you possibly come up with the notion that game was more meaningful than a team ranked in the top 8 in the country opening conference play? While I whole heartedly agree that the Northwestern game would render to be worthless, most Buckeye fans really don't care. When OSU is undefeated and ranked in the top 10 their games will ALWAYS be the priority on television no matter who they play.Put the shoe on the other foot. Say Akron was ranked #8 in the country and opening conference play with Buffalo. OSU was 1-2 and playing Illinois. Would you be upset if they kept the OSU game on instead of switching to the Akron game?Saying all this.....I think it was absolutely rotten what channel 5 did. If you decide to put a game on television you show it until completion and I don't care who comes on after the fact. If it is that big of a deal, run the entire OSU game on tape delay so nobody misses EITHER game. Maybe somebody misses a late evening re-run, but Akron and OSU fans would BOTH be happy.I am not defending Akron or OSU on this. Honestly, I 100% blame channel 5. However, to say that people are idiots to plan their day around a Buckeye game because you consider it meaningless is rather elitist of you. Who are you to say who the public should want to watch? Obviously, you are upset that 90% of the state chooses to believe the Buckeyes are their priority and not the Zips. Akron couldn't even get a sell out on an 80 degree day against their rival that is 20 minutes away with a small stadium that had 6 sections tarped off. Yet YOU think they should be the priority in the publics eyes. lolI think the public speaks volumes about which team is the priority. Just look at ticket sales, merchandise sales, etc...Before you start ripping on me I want you to know. I was AT the Rubber Bowl watching the Zips. I chose my #1 priority. I just dvr'ed the Buckeyes game to watch later.

I blame Chanel 5 for this disaster, unless it was a decision made higher up somewhere, but seeing how the game was shown in its entirety on the COLUMBUS station that was carrying it, I doubt that is the case.Here's my beef: This is a Cleveland station, and Akron and Can't State have fanbases contained almost entirely within it's broadcast range. People in Columbus don't get this channel. The most exciting time in the game that concerned many thousands of people totally contained in thier viewing area was cut off to show a bunch of idiot talking heads talk about a game that wasn't even being played at the time. In fact, our game ended before the OSU game ever kicked off.People wonder why UA is viewed as "second-fiddle", it's because of decisions like this made by the media, not just chanel 5 but also the ABJ, all the other TV news stations, and the radio news/sports guys to completely ignore us. Clevelanders root for OSU because that is what is on TV. They look down upon Akron because TV stations pre-empt our games to talk about an OSU game that isn't even being played yet, so they get the ideas that they have about us.Sorry guys, but there is a lot of frustration I am harboring over the idiot media. The only thing we can do to change it is to STAND UP and be counted. STAND UP for our school, and for it's fans. They can't do it themselves either because they are too apathetic to care, or because they have been subjected to this sh*t for so long that they just shrug their shoulders and accept it.

I agree with some of this, but you still miss the point. People think OSU is relevant because they are a winner, not because they are always on tv. Unless Akron is consistently in the Top 25 EVERY year, they will always play 2nd fiddle. That is just the way that it is. Is it fair? Not at all. But, that is how competition and capitalism works. To the victor goes the spoils. It is a free market folks. Akron has to take the business away because people want to watch the product. I continue to harp on this, but nobody seems to get it.

[ziptrumpet87]

Couldn't WEWS have continued to run the game and had a crawler that said the OSU pregame show/game will be joined as soon as the UA/Can't State game finished? Or run a picture box of the other show in the corner? A close game no matter who is playing should be exciting and continued until it's finished IMHO.

[bigzipguy]

Last night on Sports Sunday, Gib Shanley, made reference to what happned with the coverage Sat. He stated that the station received a ton of e-mails. He then stated that the cut-over was a mistake. But then he stated that it was "just a game" "get a life"

[zipboy]

ziptrumpet had a good point - why not show a split screen? Even if this was Utah vs Utah State and it was down to the last minute, I would want to see the ending. Given that it was the local teams and we are treated like 2nd class citizens in our own back yard is terrible.And I would love to see what the actual ratings were for the game.