-- [ From: McArdle, Tom * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- -------- REPLY, Original message follows -------- Date: Wednesday, 10-Apr-96 11:02 PM From: D B Doucette "If you had reviewed the numerous threads during the championship weeks, you would have seen the great numbers of posts from fans asking how they could see their teams on TV from Albany, etc. Well, the most common solution was - buy a DBS dish. Now, I know someone has to originate the programming, and it is mostly the regional sports networks (by the benevolence of the NC$$) who do so, but how does it get to YOU in your home. IMHO, it will only get worse before it gets better." ############################################################################ ### There you go again D B !! It IS getting better than before. I started following college hockey in the late 60's when Badger Bob Johnson started playing at the old Heartmeyer (sp?) Area in Madison, WI. TV ?...never. Radio?... not for years. Newspaper copy?... If you searched hard and long. Seasons went by and radio and TV (public, delayed) improved coverage with the success of the program. The Dane County Coliseum brought more fans and more regional coverage. Now we have the option of DBS, full size satellite systems, expanding cable (sorry it's not in your backyard yet) with ESPN, ESPN2, and talk of new national sports channels. That IS better than before. Call a few friends before next years season wraps up and then march into a local sport bar/restaurant together. You'll be suprised at how quickly the manager can change the dish for a group of customers. In basketball crazy Louisville,KY two of us got the Thurs. NCAA semi-final game at a pizza joint last year. 20 years ago, all you could get at a pizza joint was heartburn, a guy in a striped-shirt and straw hat playing the banjo, or muzak. The game is out there if you just get a little creative. Tom McArdle On Wisconsin HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.