Federer-Sampras tilt to be shown on Tennis Channel
Tennis Channel will show the big Roger Federer-Pete Sampras match March 10 at the Garden, with Ted Robinson and John McEnroe calling the action.
If I were a diligent sports media reporter I now would update you on the channel's distribution situation, but I don't feel like it. Check your local listtings.
The entire discussion of sports channel distribution has me worn out and bored. The NFL Network vs. Big Cable dispute has crushed my spirit.
I guess I should write my Friday newspaper column now.
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Comments (5)
didn"t they change the name of the tennis channel to the chris mad dog russo channel recently?
a little birdie tells me the match will be on fox sports new york.
that will solve the distribution problems in the ny area.
it will be in HD.
channel 107 here on Bright House Networks and an extra $1.99 a month for the 7 channel digital sports package. Sure beats $5 a month Cablevision robs you for. I hope there is some way that Sampras can beat him. Oh, wait tennis is fixed now. My bad.
Thanks, DuMont. Who the heck are you, anyway?
The only things I can say are these:
I am a former Newsday carrier, and got the route because the previous kid didn't want to deliver the new Sunday edition.
Newsday's offices and presses were behind Roosevelt Field then.
Priot to that I delivered the Long Island Press. The one that was a daily broadsheet based in Jamaica and owned by S.I. Newhouse.
Newsday was better because I delivered it AFTER school.
But Sunday mornings sucked for either paper.
I am fascinated by the technology we can now easily use to inform and entertain, and relish the behind-the-scenes information and constructive criticism people like you, Zipay, and Isaacs have given me through Newsday over the past 25+ years. I also fear the power that those technological advances can give some folks who produce and deliver information about our favorite sports. Instant doesn't always mean good ... that applies to coffee as well as the information stream.
Imagine what Howard Cosell would say now, not only about his beloved ABC but of what Bob Lipsyte called SportsWorld [not the NBC Sports show of the '80's]. He'd have a field day. And I think the Times' Sandomir already has on more than one occasion written a column using the voice of Howard from the grave.
I also remember the other pioneers like Martzke, Taaffe and others critiquing sports tv on the national scene back when television was recorded on tape reels as big around as a Prius tire and about as wide. And yes, Mushnick in his own way before he stopped giving a crap.
For many reasons [all professional and financial] I have to take the 5th on the other stuff.
And no, I don't directly work for a company related to the DuMont Television Network ... whose vestigial cartilage forms the backbone of Fox Broadcasting.