No US Open Final on CBS in Houston
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This one makes me really upset. The men’s final of the US Open was scheduled for Sunday, but because of bad weather in New York it got pushed back to Monday. No problem — I’ll just record it. They clearly stated that it would be broadcast on CBS on Monday from 5-8 Eastern. Great. I set my DVR to record our local CBS station from 4-8 just in case.
The problem is when I got home, I found out (thanks to Lisa) that it was recording Oprah. No, I assured her, Oprah was scheduled for the 4pm timeslot, but Tennis was on in its place. Not so! Our local CBS station decided to play Oprah and the local news instead of the crown of American Tennis. This wouldn’t happen with football, baseball, basketball, soccer (OK they would probably screw soccer, too — and that would make me just as mad.)
Apparently I could have seen it in glorious non-high-def on local channel 55, but I had no way of knowing that, so I just streamed it off the web from usopen.org in a little grainy window on my PC. The main problem was by the time I got home from work and figured all this out, the match was nearly over.
So Thanks CBS, you really dropped the ball on this one.
Your anger is justified, but don’t feel too bad - I saw the match, and I don’t think you missed much.
The most interesting thing to me was the fact that Murray got robbed by a bad call. He probably should have won the second set. Federer would most probably still have won, but it bothered me to see an underdog get robbed like that.
I saw the second part of the Nadel/Murray match - now that was a fun one to watch.
Yeah, Nadal/Murray was definitely a good one.