This year's coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament on CBS has been the absolute worst I can remember. In what is just the most recent example, the Connecticut-Kentucky game is on now, and it's a decent game -- UConn is up by 6 with about 7 1/2 minutes left. But there's a major upset in the works with 11th-seeded George Mason up by 3 over North Carolina with about 10 seconds left. CBS keeps saying they'll switch us over to that game but are unable to actually do so for whatever reason. Now there are 6 seconds left and they still haven't switched over.
This has happened at least three different times in the four days I've been watching the tournament, in addition to viewers being randomly shown commercials without warning in the middle of a game and the games switching back and forth between SD and HD for no reason.
All of this might be excusable if CBS had just picked up the NCAA rights this year, but this is the 25th year they've been televising the tournament! Surely they should have figured out to how do this right by now.
Incidentally, North Carolina did indeed get beat by George Mason. Not that we got to see any of it...
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I have also noticed that on the SD version of our local LA CBS Channel, has been switching to competitive games while the HD channel has not in may cases. Very strange coverage. Also some obvious times where the production crew did not think their feed was being broadcast.
I'm a Memphis graduate and got so irritated at CBS for now showing any of my teams game that I went to online viewing:
http://www.ncaasports.com/mmod/welcome
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