May 07, 2008

Not a shining moment for cable TV

I attempted to watch the Dodgers-Mets game yesterday, a game which featured a steal of home by the Mets' 42-year-old Moises Alou and an inside-the-park home run by the Dodgers' 22-year-old Blake DeWitt. Unfortunately, I couldn't see either event.

Oceanic Cable has two Fox Sports channels as part of its basic package: Fox Sports West and Fox Prime Ticket. Angels' baseball games are on FSN (channel 226) and Dodgers' games on FSNPT (channel 228). Yesterday the cable company fouled up big time: at 4:00pm I tuned in to FSNPT to see the start of the Dodgers game and instead saw the 7th inning of the Royals-Angels game from Fox Kansas City. Weird, I thought, so I switched to FSNW and got -- the Royals-Angels game. On the FSNKC feed I got the Royals' broadcasters; on the FSNW feed I got the Angels' broadcasters.

Now that was disconcerting.

And it didn't get corrected, at least through 10:00pm last night. This morning it has the correct feed again.

Posted by Linkmeister at May 7, 2008 09:44 AM | TrackBack
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