Unt On Tv

[CawClaw]

KTXA/Ch. 21 will televise the North Texas home opener against Tulsa at 6 p.m. Saturday. Also, beginning at noon, KTXA will air brief hourly reports on the matchup and the gameday festivities.

http://www.star-telegram.com/807/story/873740.html

[NTEdgex2]

I saw an ad for this game that said it would start at 8pm???? Did they get the time wrong or is it delayed?

GMG!

[bigntex]

KTXA/Ch. 21 will televise the North Texas home opener against Tulsa at 6 p.m. Saturday. Also, beginning at noon, KTXA will air brief hourly reports on the matchup and the gameday festivities.

http://www.star-telegram.com/807/story/873740.html

How can my friends and I pick up the game from out of town on KXTA 21, anyone have an idea? Thank you.

[greenminer]

How can my friends and I pick up the game from out of town on KXTA 21, anyone have an idea? Thank you.

You can't.

[Cerebus]

Why does it always seem like our HOME games are televised, but our AWAY games never are?

I suspect an SMU conspiracy...

[TheTastyGreek]

Why does it always seem like our HOME games are televised, but our AWAY games never are?

I suspect an SMU conspiracy...

Home games are televised because producing home games is much cheaper than going on the road. The crew that is going to be used to produce the non-ESPN Gameplan TXA broadcasts consists of just under two dozen people. If it's a local game, the price tag for production is their time, plus the time of the production truck, plus whatever the guy in charge wants to make on top of that so it's worth his while.

For a road game, you have to throw in hotels, food, and other per diem considerations for anyone who can't be hired locally. Typically, only about 5 of those people can be replaced with locals. There's also the satellite truck that's needed to beam the game back for broadcast. If it's a local game, TXA (or whoever) can just use one of their news trucks for the duration of the game, plus 30 minutes at the beginning and end. If it's a road game, the station either has to send a truck out on the road (and pay for lodging, food, overtime for the operator, etc.) and lose the ability to use it for normal purposes, or pay a 3rd party for the use of a satellite truck and operator in the destination city. Which is not cheap.

It may be an SMU conspiracy why one other station didn't get their business together to make a serious play for NT football rights FOUR MONTHS AGO, but it isn't a conspiracy that makes road games so expensive.

[filmerj]

SMU MATCH UP... Makes me ill.