TV and The NCAA Tournament

**pvfan** · March 16th, 2010, 08:39 PM

With 12 and 13 now off of cable the tournament will turn into one game plus live look ins. People here are going to be ticked off about 8:30 Friday when ETSU/UK play. ETSU's game will be shown in it's entirety regardless of score in the tri-cities which means channel 11. It might be the first time the removal of two cbs affiliates upsets people.

**Biggin** · March 16th, 2010, 09:00 PM

the first time?!?!?

no, the first time was during the NFL season.
I used to be able to watch like four different NFL games at once, now its two tops.

**starbuck** · March 16th, 2010, 10:21 PM

you can get a box from comcast for free and get 12 and 13 and CMT back. if you have a HDTV you just rescan and you will pick the channels back up. on mine it is channels 33-1 and 33-2

**UTVols2** · March 16th, 2010, 10:42 PM

Or just get DirecTV and for a small fee you can watch every game known to man and several at one time on the same screen. Good stuff.

**pvfan** · March 16th, 2010, 10:59 PM

Originally Posted by UTVols2

Or just get DirecTV and for a small fee you can watch every game known to man and several at one time on the same screen. Good stuff.

This, it's what I've done and I can't wait til Thursday.

**UTVols2** · March 17th, 2010, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by pvfan

This, it's what I've done and I can't wait til Thursday.

I did it last year and loved it. You can have 4-5 games going at once on one screen and if one is close you can click on that game and it will go full screen.

I love some of the special things like this that DirecTV does. Some of the free ones that are awesome are the Olympics, The Masters (great stuff), Wimbeldon, etc.

I always get the NBA League Pass and MLB Extra Innings every year and they are awesome too.

**7teen** · March 17th, 2010, 11:15 AM

$69 for DirecTv's March Madness package.

But if you have Comcast, you can go out there and get a box and then you'll have channel's 12 and 13 again. My parents did that during NFL season because the Bengals were always on channel 13. I watched 14 of the 16 Bengals games this year on CBS w/o paying a dime for Sunday Ticket.

**shwalker32** · March 18th, 2010, 10:04 AM

i get 12 and 13

**shwalker32** · March 18th, 2010, 10:04 AM

but that is for digital cable how do i get it for the other tvs>? u said a free box from comcast?

**SBG** · March 18th, 2010, 01:12 PM

The bad thing about DirecTV IMO is they wanna charge you up to $100-$200 for the boxes and then add on a lease fee for those boxes every month.If I pay $100 the box better be mine. But Dish just charges the lease fee which makes sense to me. That's why I went with Dish. But then I'm not as big on these games as some of y'all are.