Albany,n.y. Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 I'm going to the game, so for me it doesn't matter, but how bad is the Browns @ Bills game being thought of by the CBS network guys & the local Albany station that Pittsburgh @ Cincinnati is being shown here in Albany? I can't imagine why anyone in programming would choose showing any game the Bengals are involved in over the Bills in Albany. Originally they were planning on showing NE @ Chicago but the NFL moved the game to 4:15 so now Albany gets screwed twice because instead of showing the NE game, Albany now gets Pittsburgh @ Cincinnati at 1 & the Miami @ Jets at 4:15. The good news is it's not too late for everyone in Albany to buy tickets & watch the Bills try to avenge last season's 6-3 loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8-8 Forever? Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 I'm going to the game, so for me it doesn't matter, but how bad is the Browns @ Bills game being thought of by the CBS network guys & the local Albany station that Pittsburgh @ Cincinnati is being shown here in Albany? I can't imagine why anyone in programming would choose showing any game the Bengals are involved in over the Bills in Albany. Originally they were planning on showing NE @ Chicago but the NFL moved the game to 4:15 so now Albany gets screwed twice because instead of showing the NE game, Albany now gets Pittsburgh @ Cincinnati at 1 & the Miami @ Jets at 4:15. The good news is it's not too late for everyone in Albany to buy tickets & watch the Bills try to avenge last season's 6-3 loss. Bills/Browns,the TV ratings for that one have to be skimming the all time bottom unless you live in Utica or Akron. Got news for you, east of Syracuse, they are mostly Jets fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark from Albany Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 (edited) Really? Bengals? Guess I'll head over to the Arc. Edited December 8, 2010 by Mark from Albany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdub Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Really? Bengals? Guess I'll head over to the Arc. The ARC? In watervleit? I thought that place was closed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van_phelaN1 Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Bills/Browns,the TV ratings for that one have to be skimming the all time bottom unless you live in Utica or Akron. Got news for you, east of Syracuse, they are mostly Jets fans. Yeah I am in Albany too. Big time Jets and Giants area. Still, you would think a New York based team would get aired around here over Pitt. Then again you have to take into consideration that the Jets losing on MNF puts them in a Wild Card spot had the season ended today. So I guess it makes sense to play the games of teams in other divisions that are leading their division or wild card race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zow2 Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 (edited) That's not really big news. Usually this time of year, local affiliates would rather show ANY playoff caliber team than two clubs that are jockeying for draft position. Unless the stations are in NE Ohio or WNY, they have no obligation to show the Bills and Albany is way out of the Bills footprint imo. Edited December 8, 2010 by zow2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meathead Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 im a little surprised since i thought albany was as big on the bills as they are on the jests and giants, but i can see why the interest in the bills is down compared to those teams and i was at that browns game last year - worst. game. in. the. history. of. sports. history. you. can. tell. by. all. the. periods. period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uticaclub Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 When the bills win they get fans. Utica used to be all bills fan, but their alot of fairweather fans. Living in Utica is ****ty enough, living in Utica and being a bills is the reason I moved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmohawk Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 I'm really lookn' forward to this weeks game. . Hopefully the Bills can stop the running game this week. A. Maybin is gonna see lots of gametime Sunday, good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zow2 Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 I lived in Central NY for several years and when the Bills are down, even Syracuse TV showed the Jets all the time. If Syracuse toggles back and forth on showing the Bills, I imagine Albany is much closer to being Jets/Giants territory than Buffalo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir andrew Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Quite a few Bills fans in the Albany area. They're just not as vocal as the loud and obnoxious jets and giants fans. Used to work out there and was surprised how many closet bills fans I met. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truth on hold Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Outside of Buffalo and Cleveland this game has ZERO interest to anyone. It'd be like broadcasting Lions - Cardinals in Buffalo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albany,n.y. Posted December 8, 2010 Author Share Posted December 8, 2010 Bills/Browns,the TV ratings for that one have to be skimming the all time bottom unless you live in Utica or Akron. Got news for you, east of Syracuse, they are mostly Jets fans. The Bills have a radio station here & have been shown on tv 7 or 8 times out of the 12 games they've played. That's why Pittsburgh @ Cincinnati doesn't make a lot of sense. I could have understood New England @ Chicago over the Bills, but showing Pittsburgh kick Cincinnati's @ss is ridiculous. As recently as last year or 2008 the Bills weren't being shown one week when the Jets weren't on & there was such a protest that they changed their schedule & showed the Bills. I guess those of us who still want to see the game are either attending it or just resigned to it not being on home TV. Or, after watching last year's Browns/Bills game, nobody wants to watch anything involving those 2 teams ever again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 I'm going to the game, so for me it doesn't matter, but how bad is the Browns @ Bills game being thought of by the CBS network guys & the local Albany station that Pittsburgh @ Cincinnati is being shown here in Albany? I can't imagine why anyone in programming would choose showing any game the Bengals are involved in over the Bills in Albany. Originally they were planning on showing NE @ Chicago but the NFL moved the game to 4:15 so now Albany gets screwed twice because instead of showing the NE game, Albany now gets Pittsburgh @ Cincinnati at 1 & the Miami @ Jets at 4:15. The good news is it's not too late for everyone in Albany to buy tickets & watch the Bills try to avenge last season's 6-3 loss. I am guessing it has more to do with the Steelers, than the Bengals. I live in Austin, TX. The Cowboys and Texans are on every week...the third game shown in the afternoon, is almost always the Steelers...they are a national team...like it or not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Outside of Buffalo and Cleveland this game has ZERO interest to anyone. It'd be like broadcasting Lions - Cardinals in Buffalo Looks like another blackout so only Cleveland will see the game...oh, and Fort Smith, AR for some reason. PTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmas3 Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 im a little surprised since i thought albany was as big on the bills as they are on the jests and giants, but i can see why the interest in the bills is down compared to those teams and i was at that browns game last year - worst. game. in. the. history. of. sports. history. you. can. tell. by. all. the. periods. period. Yeah I was there as well, painfull game. Didnt some guy try to run some cops over as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFan-4-Ever Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Didn't Albany recently turn their market in the jests and giants direction? Geographically it makes sense a it's a 2 hour drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zow2 Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Looks like another blackout so only Cleveland will see the game...oh, and Fort Smith, AR for some reason. PTR Peyton Hillis is from Conway, Ark and played at Arkansas. That's the only link of interest i can think between AR and this game? I don't know how often the networks carve up the nation to include specific player interest when they come up with these broadcast maps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdub Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Peyton Hillis is from Conway, Ark and played at Arkansas. That's the only link of interest i can think between AR and this game? I don't know how often the networks carve up the nation to include specific player interest when they come up with these broadcast maps. He must have relatives working at the station in control of programming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albany,n.y. Posted December 8, 2010 Author Share Posted December 8, 2010 (edited) Didn't Albany recently turn their market in the jests and giants direction? Geographically it makes sense a it's a 2 hour drive. It has always been the Giants' market. Since the Giants started training in Albany, Albany also gets all preseason Giants games on local TV. Here's the story on the Jets. 2 years ago CBS channel 6 chose to take the Jets as their primary team. This included showing Jets exhibition games, which before that weren't shown around here. This past preseason, the Jets games weren't shown like 2009, I don't know why. A few years ago when CBS 1st got the AFC from NBC they were doing the same thing our local NBC station was doing & having us vote for the Bills or Jets. We won a good percentage of the time because we had a better organized voting bloc than the Jets did. When the Jets got good & the Bills continued to miss the playoffs, CBS Albany went Jets 1st. Back in the NBC days when we were Super Bowl contenders every year, we won a lot of those voting contests. It also didn't hurt that one of the guys who was making the programming decisions at NBC's channel 13 was originally from Buffalo & was a Fredonia grad. Edited December 8, 2010 by Albany,n.y. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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