Hoping we can collaborate here on a solution. As of now the MAC lists obscure FOX College Sports as the broadcaster of the late semifinal game-Toledo, BG, etc.. side of the bracket. Unlike CBSSN, most cable systems do not carry FOX College and it's online streams only work for those who also get the TV feed. It's weird and, honestly, dumb to put one of the biggest conference games of the year on a network few people get and the league has never previously used. I've emailed the conference media and tourney staff to try and get some help, but hoping we can use this thread to come up with a fan solution to help each other access a feed

Your post made me check my TV to set recorder. Thanks.

I have VERIZON FIOS Sports Package and just looked.
CBS Sports Network Friday March 15 630PM 1st Semi in HD.
Then it jumps to the MTN WEST for their 1st Semi in the next game.

I found the Fox Sports College in the SD channel section AND found the MAC 2nd Semi game.
It is annoying that the conference gets pushed to SD quality and onto a lesser network when A-10 quarterfinals and Big Sky games are being shown simulataneously on other HD networks (NBC Sports Network and One World Sports).

MAC Semis are definitely better this year than quarterfinals from A-10 (or even their Semis), but maybe with a good showing, the TV networks will change!

The ESPN3 push to ESPN+ was annoying and so it this.

Go Miami! Go MAC!
DREAM BIG! - Hoping for 2 bids from men’s hoops and 4 from women’s hoops.

(03-11-2019 08:37 AM)JHVMU19 Wrote:  Your post made me check my TV to set recorder. Thanks.

I have VERIZON FIOS Sports Package and just looked.
CBS Sports Network Friday March 15 630PM 1st Semi in HD.
Then it jumps to the MTN WEST for their 1st Semi in the next game.

I found the Fox Sports College in the SD channel section AND found the MAC 2nd Semi game.
It is annoying that the conference gets pushed to SD quality and onto a lesser network when A-10 quarterfinals and Big Sky games are being shown simulataneously on other HD networks (NBC Sports Network and One World Sports).

MAC Semis are definitely better this year than quarterfinals from A-10 (or even their Semis), but maybe with a good showing, the TV networks will change!

The ESPN3 push to ESPN+ was annoying and so it this.

Go Miami! Go MAC!
DREAM BIG! - Hoping for 2 bids from men’s hoops and 4 from women’s hoops.

One has to remember that ESPN has a lot of television commitments which can be PROBLEMATIC this time of year.

I have no idea what the contractual terms are, but ESPN has to make mamy conferences happy and they do try by 'farming out' games to other networks.

Overall not bad. Fox Sports College is on DirecTV, Dish, Verizon, etc. that covers a lot of TV sets.

Game is shown on my search of programming. Channel 319, Fox College Sports Atlantic on Spectrum Cable in Akron and Cleveland.

Would it just be easier on everyone if NIU played in the semi final. Our fans dont watch games anyway. Problem solved

If you look hard enough you'll be able to find a bootlegged stream. Another option is go to your local bar. I'm sure BW3 would have it.

When I looked yesterday, it said the BG-BSU game was on Fox College Sports. Today it has changed and it says ESPN+. That’s good news for me since the Fox feed is not on DISH, but I can stream ESPN+ on the Roku box.

I think that the Fox College Sports channel is only on Direct TV and some cable providers.

On attT it says Mac semi final 1 on CBSSN

On ESPN, it shows both games as ESPN+.

Correction: both games tonight ESPN+. Tomorrow just the first game. It doesn’t list the second game, probably because the teams aren’t set until later.

(03-11-2019 10:42 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  Would it just be easier on everyone if NIU played in the semi final. Our fans dont watch games anyway. Problem solved

LOFL.

(03-14-2019 04:57 PM)axeme Wrote:  On ESPN, it shows both games as ESPN+.

Correction: both games tonight ESPN+. Tomorrow just the first game. It doesn’t list the second game, probably because the teams aren’t set until later.

Or because the 2nd game is on a competitor network.

CBSSN and ESPN partner. ESPN and Fox do not, I think.

Even Fox Sports Go doesn’t list it. Bad.

Verizon Fios had semi game #2 listed on Fox Sports lower channel “SD” channel, but when I tried top watch, it was blacked out for some reason. What a mess not having easy access to 2nd semi final game. 1st semi final game was exciting and in HD.

(03-16-2019 08:42 AM)JHVMU19 Wrote:  Verizon Fios had semi game #2 listed on Fox Sports lower channel “SD” channel, but when I tried top watch, it was blacked out for some reason. What a mess not having easy access to 2nd semi final game. 1st semi final game was exciting and in HD.

I hope someone took lessons out of this semifinal TV situation. That can't happen again, just keep it on ESPN+ if its going to be that big of a cluster. I never understood why CBS Sportsnetwork does not get an alt feed like BTN, regional sports networks.