The old eastern time zone bias
I didn't hear it myself, but the Daily News' Vinny Bonsignore says ESPN radio talk-show host Colin Cowherd complained today that NBA Finals games start too late. Yet another example of ESPN's eastern-time-zone bias.
Cowherd, who is based in Bristol, Conn., hates these tipoffs at a little after 9 p.m. eastern time. And, obviously, the schedule does keep a lot of kids -- and adults with early alarms -- from watching entire games.
But there's a little these people should be aware of. It's called the rest of the country.
Lakers-Celtics game 1 in Boston ended at 11:51 eastern time (late), 10:51 central (late-ish), 9:51 mountain (just like a home game), and 8:51 here in the West (shank of the evening!). Most of the nation has no complaint.
If the games started earlier -- Cowherd suggests an hour earlier -- tipoff would be a little after 5 p.m. in Los Angeles. Then many of the fans of one of the teams would miss the first half of the telecast while sitting on the freeway.
But as we've discussed before in this blog, ESPN, the Worldwide Leader in Sports, proves over and over that its world revolves around New York, Boston and the East Coast. Sounds as if all that staying up late fogs its people's judgment.
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Would Colin have been saying the same thing if he were still living in the Pacific Northwest? That is a problem with the morning hosts on the two sports-talk radio stations that are based deep in the Eastern Time Zone!