Every Tigers Game is On TV
by Ian Casselberry on Feb 9, 2009 6:35 PM EST
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If the Detroit Tigers rebound from a disappointing season this year, the revival will be fully televised.
All 162 games on the schedule will be on your TV screen this season, with FOX Sports Detroit announcing today that it will telecast 156 of them (most of them in HD) on its network. The other six are scheduled to be part of FOX's Saturday Game of the Week broadcast.
FSD will also televise four Spring Training games, beginning March 16.
No weird conflicts with the FOX national telecast this year, as happened last August for a Saturday night game against the Rays. But at least a couple of broadcasts will get pushed to FSN Plus when there are conflicts with Red Wings and Pistons games in April. (Will "April in the D" be back? Metro Detroit awaits the answer.)
Also, as of yet, no Sunday night ESPN appearances are scheduled. But really, is that a bad thing? The Tigers almost always manage to look completely awful when Jon Miller and Joe Morgan are watching. (Don't tell me Steve Phillips will make it better, either.)
Is it kind of a shame that more Tigers games won't be on free, over-the-air TV, as they used to be on WDIV (or WKBD, later on)? Probably, but doesn't that just seem like a different time? How many of you reading this watch games on your computer?
(Hat tip to Todd, who alerted me to this hours ago via e-mail. Little slow on the trigger finger today. Cold medicine's dragging me down.)
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Every Tigers game on TV… what a great world we live in. I am partially upset about no ESPN broadcasts. Joe Morgan may sound dumber than a box of rocks at some points, but Jon Morgan is great to listen to. But I’ll trade less ESPN games for more wins any day of the year.
APRIL .. IN .. THE .. D!!!
Ian, clearly you have not been watching any Pistons or Red Wings games on FSN Detroit. They’re having a contest for this year’s April in the D song!
http://www.wrif.com/content/2008_12aprilind.asp
Also, has it always been the case that not all Tigers games have been on TV? Like, say, in 1984 (I was 2), the good majority of Tiger’s games were not on TV?
To not have them all on in this day and age just seems archaic. I mean, the Yankees and Red Sox have entire channels devoted to them. I realize they are bigger markets. But there is no reason why FSN Detroit couldn’t have broadcasted every single game for the last few years. And there is no reason they can’t ALL be in HD.
Busted
I have not been a good Detroit sports fan this winter.
by Ian Casselberry on Feb 10, 2009 10:18 AM EST up reply actions
I miss.....
the Sparky and Al Show…….
Ian……..is there any way you can get video of the 1980’s Tiger that would roar or cry after the WDIV games posted in the corner of the Bless You Boys homepage? Does WDIV own the rights to that? That would be awesome to see it again after the games this season…..after all, it is the 25th Anniversary of 1984.
Get it done!……..
not so hot for OTA viewers...
Surprisingly, I am one of them. I say surprisingly, because a few years ago I would’ve read the same news with the attitude, “who? everyone has cable or satellite!”.
But trapped with Comcast as our only option (no WOW in our apt complex, big honkin trees in the satellite way), we’ve gone OTA. OTA in a typically over the top nerd way, but still—powered antenna, amplifier to multiple outlets in all rooms, dual tuner DVR with digital converter boxes controlled by IR, media center extender, HDTV…
But not so good when I will only get 6 games.
--psiu
PSIU
I share your pain to an extent… I’ve had Dish Network and DirecTV (most recently DirecTV) and always swore I’d never resort to cable again.
About five months ago when my son was born, my wife and I moved into an apartment complex which also rents a few townhomes. I was told we couldn’t have a dish because Charter had an exclusive deal with the complex. So I was forced to swallow my pride and give Charter a chance.
I’m here to tell you while they’re not my first choice, I have almost every channel I had before with the dish, and the most important ones are in HD like ESPN, FSN and Big 10 Network, along with the locals.
I guess what I’m trying to say is maybe you should give Comcast another chance, especially with almost all of the Tigers games on FSN. I too have thought about going strictly OTA, but I love sports too much to go without at least cable.
For what it’s worth…
On a completely separate note, I remember the days where only 40 Tigers games were televised on the Tigers TV network, with WDIV Channel 4 in Detroit as the flagship.
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