Boston-Radio-Interest Digest, Vol 12, Issue 182

[Howard Glazer]

----- Original Message -----
From: Keating Willcox <kwillcox@wnsh.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@tsornin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: Boston-Radio-Interest Digest, Vol 12, Issue 182


> At 08:12 AM 4/13/2008, you wrote:
> >After a two hour rain delay, Jonathan Papelbon comes on to shut down
> >the Yankees. There are two outs in
> >the top of the ninth, Sox up by one--and suddenly the picture on Fox
> >switches to NASCAR auto racing.
> >
> >The announcer informs viewers after a minute or two that the end of
> >the Red Sox-Yankees game is
> >on "our sister network, FX". Viewers fumble for their remotes
> >(apparently Fox didn't consider a
> >split screen?) and try to figure out where the heck FX is.
>
>
> Why didn't FOX simply use a split screen format, and broadcast both
> events at the same time?
>
>

Fear of being in violation of the contract with NASCAR? We know that Fox had
an obligation to carry the race from its start on the over-the-air network;
perhaps language about split screens was written in.

BTW, I heard a caller on Fox Sports Radio (via XM) yesterday who was upset
for a different reason. He identified himself as a NASCAR fan and a
patriotic American who had missed hearing the anthem and seeing the fighter
jets zooming over the track -- which Fox usually covers in loving detail at
every NASCAR race. He was outraged that Fox would pre-empt this important
part of the NASCAR experience for baseball!

Howard