The DU Lounge

ClusterFreak

(3,112 posts) Wed Jun 6, 2012, 08:55 PM Jun 2012

Game 4 of Stanley Cup Finals are tonight...Kings could sweep and win cup....

...and on my local (Buffalo, NY) NBC affiliate they are carrying that Betty White/old pranksters reality show, followed by Up All Night etc.

Double-U Tee Eff.

Is it on your affiliate?

I know NBC Sports Network carries the games not carried on the main network (which are most games), but if they have farmed out coverage to their specialty sports channel in this situation, it's the first time I can remember that a Stanley Cup clinching game wasn't carried on NBC itself. Imagine the outcry if the equivalent game in the NBA Finals on ABC was farmed out to ESPN and not shown on the main network. Hell to pay, I would think.

14 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Game 4 of Stanley Cup Finals are tonight...Kings could sweep and win cup.... (Original Post) ClusterFreak Jun 2012 OP

Guess nobody gives a f**k....allllll-righty then!! ClusterFreak Jun 2012 #1

Sorry. Iggo Jun 2012 #3

I live near Seattle Dyedinthewoolliberal Jun 2012 #2

GO KINGS GO!!!!!! Initech Jun 2012 #4

It's not even on NBC in Los Angeles tishaLA Jun 2012 #5

Yeah, I was pretty pissed off Monday to realize that they'd pulled Versus petronius Jun 2012 #6

You guys have it all wrong JonLP24 Jun 2012 #8

The thing is...it was a potentially clinching game. ClusterFreak Jun 2012 #12

If Vancouver won the first 3 games last season JonLP24 Jun 2012 #13

So that's in the contract. ClusterFreak Jun 2012 #14

Devils! pokerfan Jun 2012 #7

LOL..."Gotta support the team." Iggo Jun 2012 #11

It would be an outrage if it wasn't done before JonLP24 Jun 2012 #9

Game 4 of Stanley Cup Finals are tonight...Kings could sweep and win cup.... Andrew67 Jun 2012 #10

ClusterFreak

(3,112 posts)

1. Guess nobody gives a f**k....allllll-righty then!!

Reply to ClusterFreak (Original post)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 09:18 PM

Jun 2012

Iggo

(47,558 posts)

3. Sorry.

Reply to ClusterFreak (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 10:15 PM

Jun 2012

I'm busy watching the game on NBC Sports or whatever it's called. Lotta people pissed that this game ain't on local 4, though.

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(15,577 posts)

2. I live near Seattle

Reply to ClusterFreak (Original post)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 10:11 PM

Jun 2012

and we have it on our Canadian channel which is one of my cable choices. Can you pick up Windsor or London TV?

Initech

(100,080 posts)

4. GO KINGS GO!!!!!!

Reply to ClusterFreak (Original post)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 10:26 PM

Jun 2012

tishaLA

(14,176 posts)

5. It's not even on NBC in Los Angeles

Reply to ClusterFreak (Original post)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 10:41 PM

Jun 2012

It's on the NBCSports channel. It's something of a slap in the face to the city IMO. yeah, the Lakers are king here, but they could show the Kings game AND show almost all of NBCs prime time lineup, too.

petronius

(26,602 posts)

6. Yeah, I was pretty pissed off Monday to realize that they'd pulled Versus

Reply to tishaLA (Reply #5)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 11:01 PM

Jun 2012

from my cable lineup (along with renaming it). So no hockey for me, although I did have the choice of two or three baseball games and I think some poker tournament...

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)

8. You guys have it all wrong

Reply to tishaLA (Reply #5)

Thu Jun 7, 2012, 01:03 AM

Jun 2012

Games 3 & 4 are on NBC Sports Network and it's been that way since it was on Versus. Last year's Stanley Cup games 3 & 4 were on Versus which is now NBCSN.

It has nothing to do with LA. It is on NBC SN EVERYWHERE and this is what they have done this year, last year, and the year before that. Ever since Versus(which is now NBCSN) was a major player in airing NHL games.

ClusterFreak

(3,112 posts)

12. The thing is...it was a potentially clinching game.

Reply to JonLP24 (Reply #8)

Thu Jun 7, 2012, 10:26 AM

Jun 2012

And the main network has always carried the game when a team could potentially clinch the championship. It's just that this is the first time in recent memory that there has been a potential clincher in a game 4. I can't remember the last time this happened in the Stanley Cup finals.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)

13. If Vancouver won the first 3 games last season

Reply to ClusterFreak (Reply #12)

Thu Jun 7, 2012, 03:51 PM

Jun 2012

Game 4 would have been on Versus. Game 3 & 4 being on NBC SN was known MONTHS ago. Don't worry Games 5, 6, & 7 will be on NBC.

Here are the terms of NBC SN purchase of Versus

*Continued sharing of the Stanley Cup Final on NBC (which will air Games 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7) and NBC Sports Network (Games 3 and 4)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL_on_NBC#2011:_New_contract.2C_new_synergy

ClusterFreak

(3,112 posts)

14. So that's in the contract.

Reply to JonLP24 (Reply #13)

Thu Jun 7, 2012, 10:20 PM

Jun 2012

Wow. I guess Gary Bettman didn't have much choice but to accept those terms if he wanted to be on NBC at all. Chances of a 4 game sweep are generally slim enough that it probably will go longer and therefore NBC will carry a clinching game 5, 6 or 7. But I bet the NHL was sweating it last night, and pulling for the Devils to grab that win.