What's your league of interest?
Just interested in asking. Because the Charles Atlas folks at Fox will determine it for you.
Because Game 2 of the ALCS conflicts with Game 1 of the NLCS on Wednesdasy night at 5 p.m. (PDT), Fox has decided to do a split-national telecast. Areas of "natural geographic interest" get the ALCS game on their local Fox affiliate, with the NLCS game on the FX cable channel. And then those who the NLCS game on Fox have to hunt for the FX channel to see the ALCS game.
Take a guess as what "natural geographic interest" Los Angeles falls into? Might as well be the National Georgraphic Channel.
LA will see ...
Can you guess? ....
We get the NLCS Cardinals-Mets game, along with 79 percent of the country. That's obvious, because Oakland is so far away, it's hardly a "national geographic" region.
For the dish owners, Fox has set up alternate channels to make sure you can see both games at once (even if you don't have FX?) On DirecTV, the NLCS game 1 is on Channel 246 with the ALCS Game 2 on 248. On Dish/Echostar, it's channel 136 for the NLCS and 137 for the ALCS.
Here is Fox's explanation for having two games on at the game time, rather than stagger the starts and put one of the (gulp) daytime::
"Far more people are available to watch television in prime time than in daytime. Among all persons age two or older, television usage is +90% higher at 8:00 PM than it is at 4:00 PM on Wednesdays in October. The difference is even more dramatic among the key demographics that drive a baseball audience. Among males age 18-34, viewing is +143% greater in prime time than daytime, +151% greater for men 18-49 and +152% for men 25-54."
Thom Brennaman, Steve Lyons and Lou Piniella have the Fox call on the ALCS; Joe Buck, Tim McCarver and Luis Gonzalez are on the NLCS.
Comments
Guess what... DirecTV has cleverly blocked channel 246, so no Mets-St Louis game for me. Stuck watching A's - Detroit. Thanks FOX.
Posted by: listener | October 11, 2006 07:00 PM