>> ESPN, as a matter of policy, will stay with a live event until its
>> conclusion, even if it means pre-empting another live event.  So at
>> least one sports network does not "have to" switch to the more
>> lucrative sport as soon as it begins.
 
> this, of course, is a two edged sword.  let's hope that ESPN does not
> have anything leading into the hockey run over its allotted time.
 
It cut both ways in the Maine-Michigan game in 1995.  Would you rather
have missed the first period to tennis or the first and second
overtimes to golf?  (Putting aside ESPN's bungling of the feed for the
third OT, which was not a policy decision.)
 
                                          John Whelan, Cornell '91
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