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John K wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 26, 2023 12:27 pm

I may not make it to the Portland State game on Saturday, and I'm not seeing it listed on the Spectrum channel/program guide. MTN has 3 channels here in GF, and one of them lists the Ryder Cup, and the other two list the ISU-gris game. I'm guessing that one of those two will actually show our game instead, but does anyone have any insight about the TV coverage?

John K wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 26, 2023 3:35 pm

Thanks for the info everyone. I called the local MTN station after my original post, and they said it's being carried on the new MTN network, which as kcatz noted, is not being carried by Spectrum, in GF or anywhere in Montana I guess. They said this is the only game that isn't being televised on their primary channel, except for the Sac State game on ESPN2. Looks like I'll be watching this one on ESPN+.

tetoncat wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 26, 2023 4:11 pm

John K wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 26, 2023 3:35 pm

Thanks for the info everyone. I called the local MTN station after my original post, and they said it's being carried on the new MTN network, which as kcatz noted, is not being carried by Spectrum, in GF or anywhere in Montana I guess. They said this is the only game that isn't being televised on their primary channel, except for the Sac State game on ESPN2. Looks like I'll be watching this one on ESPN+.

So when they promote that they will carry them all season it isn't true.

SDSU game they kept promoting and when I went to watch was blocked on streaming so couldn't get thru my YouTube TV. Couldn't even see the National College game that should have been on there. Not sure why streaming was blacked out. ESPN+ Saved the day

Cataholic wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 27, 2023 10:48 am

tetoncat wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 26, 2023 4:11 pm

John K wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 26, 2023 3:35 pm

Thanks for the info everyone. I called the local MTN station after my original post, and they said it's being carried on the new MTN network, which as kcatz noted, is not being carried by Spectrum, in GF or anywhere in Montana I guess. They said this is the only game that isn't being televised on their primary channel, except for the Sac State game on ESPN2. Looks like I'll be watching this one on ESPN+.

So when they promote that they will carry them all season it isn't true.

SDSU game they kept promoting and when I went to watch was blocked on streaming so couldn't get thru my YouTube TV. Couldn't even see the National College game that should have been on there. Not sure why streaming was blacked out. ESPN+ Saved the day

I am guessing this weeks coverage was affected because the Cats and Griz play at the same time. Some stations are carrying one game, while other stations are carrying the other game.

John K wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 27, 2023 1:22 pm

Cataholic wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 27, 2023 10:48 am

tetoncat wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 26, 2023 4:11 pm

John K wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 26, 2023 3:35 pm

Thanks for the info everyone. I called the local MTN station after my original post, and they said it's being carried on the new MTN network, which as kcatz noted, is not being carried by Spectrum, in GF or anywhere in Montana I guess. They said this is the only game that isn't being televised on their primary channel, except for the Sac State game on ESPN2. Looks like I'll be watching this one on ESPN+.

So when they promote that they will carry them all season it isn't true.

SDSU game they kept promoting and when I went to watch was blocked on streaming so couldn't get thru my YouTube TV. Couldn't even see the National College game that should have been on there. Not sure why streaming was blacked out. ESPN+ Saved the day

I am guessing this weeks coverage was affected because the Cats and Griz play at the same time. Some stations are carrying one game, while other stations are carrying the other game.

I don't know that this would be applicable elsewhere in Montana, but here in GF, they are carrying the gris game on their primary channel, KRTV channel 11/511 on Spectrum, and the Cats game on the new MTN channel, which is channel 12/512, but not carried by Spectrum. I spoke with Heath Heggem who is the sports director, and he said normally they would have carried the Cats game on KTGF channel 6/506, the NBC affiliate, which is owned by the the same company as KRTV, since the MTN channel isn't carried by Spectrum. They couldn't do that this week though, because of the Ryder Cup on NBC. He said that NBC allows them to preempt only 15 hours of their regular programming. I can't remember if that was 15 hours per year, or per month, or whatever, but the Ryder Cup runs for 12 hours on Saturday and Sunday. If they preempted even just 3 or 4 hours of it for the Cats game, they would have been "charged" for the entire 12 hours. leaving them only 3 more hours that they could preempt for the remaining time period (I think it was 15 hours for the entire year). So this week was sort of an unusual situation, and they didn't really have any better options. Again, this shouldn't be an issue for any of the remaining games this season. All the others will be on MTN's primary channels across the state, except for the Sac State game on ESPN2.

thefrank1 wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 27, 2023 1:37 pm

Oops I meant to say on YoutubeTv.

damnyoutuesday wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 27, 2023 2:32 pm

I just want to say that if you don't have ESPN+ as a Bobcat fan, you're missing out. Every single conference game and OOC home game is on there, plus many road OOC games (against conferences with a similar deal that the Big Sky has with ESPN+). You also get every other Big Sky teams' games, as well as all of the Big Sky basketball games. It is well worth the money to be able to follow the Cats and the rest of the conference throughout multiple sports on a single app