Responding to msg by [log in to unmask] (Steve Czuba RPI) on >I don't want to get anyone mad out there, but I think >switching coverage from 38/NESN to channel 68 is a big >mistake. I have no idea on viewership numbers but I >certainly don't get channel 68 and I live 25 miles from >Boston. Not truely about hockey, but if Channel 68 can be received in your area by certain minimum standards, than your local cable company *must* carry WABU if the station requests it. If you have cable call Channel 68 and tell them your cable company does not carry the station. If you do not have cable, you could try a high quality directional antenna (which is how I used to receive Channel 68 fifteen years ago before I got cable. By the way, I live about 18 miles from Boston), or a satellite dish. >Ugh. I'm very dissapointed if this in fact is true. I >just hope this doesn't lead to subsequent Hockey East >games going over from NESN to 68 as well. NESN and Hockey East are in the final year of a three-year contract and recently signed a new five-year contract to start with the 1995-96 season. the new contract calls for at least 16 regular season games (this year they are televising 20 regular HE games) plus tournament games including the semi-finals and championship game. I doubt Hockey east will leave NESN and it looks like NESN will not leave Hockey East. Channel 68 will likely see how the BU games go this season before making a decision about televising BU games in the future. >--- Tom Larson must be getting bored with no Bruins >action in the forcast. I noticed him taking over the >inter-period interviews/etc.. during the BC / >Northeastern game. Or maybe NESN replaced Dawn with Tom due to viewer complaints. AND Responding to msg by [log in to unmask] ("Charles A. Baldwin") on >I've seen conflicting reports, so I wonder if anyone >can give me a quasi-definitive answer to the >following: > >Is the BU-Harvard game @ Harvard being televised, on >Channel 68 or elsewhere? I believe the game is being >played the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Thanks. From what I have read in the Boston Globe the ECAC has a TV packege this year and 11 regular season games will be televised, plus the ECAC playoffs. SportsChannel or NESN will broadcast all the games, most on tape delay, but the BU at Harvard game is the first game of the ECAC package and will be carried live on NESN. The ECAC package includes the following games all live: Nov. 22 BU at Harvard NESN Nov. 25 Lake Superior at Vermont NESN Feb. 24 Harvard at RPI SC Mar. 17 ECAC Semi-Finals SC Mar. 18 ECAC Championship SC The Globe did not list the other 8 regular season games, as they apparently will not be televised live in Boston/New England. I am interested in knowing what other ECAC games are on the schedule. Sean Pickett - Go BU Terriers, 1994 Hockey East Champions! [log in to unmask]