The Hurricanes are aware that Time Warner Cable lost the standard-definition broadcast of tonight's game on Ch. 50 during the first period and have notified FS Carolinas of the problem.
The game is available in HD on Time Warner Ch. 272.
UPDATE: The standard-definition feed on Ch. 50 was back up late in the first intermission.
“It looks to be a Time Warner-specific issue,” Hurricanes spokesman Kyle Hanlin said.
The HD signal was unaffected and there are no reports of complaints from customers of DirecTV or Dish Network.
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canes knew
Tue, 04/28/2009 - 09:59 — esteban1949but what can or could they do about it ?? NOTHING...
so what else is new ?
Go Canes !!
Disturbing clip from broadcast
Mon, 04/27/2009 - 12:35 — wcivilsAny idea what's going on here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idzeJU5_PQY
Follow up
Mon, 04/27/2009 - 17:52 — wcivilsThis is getting a lot of hits on YouTube. You guys should look into it.
Confusion
Mon, 04/27/2009 - 08:38 — kcljarWhen it was announced that the Canes would be playng at 7:30 and that both Versus and FSN would carry the game, I set my DVR to Versus HD. Even though I was at the game, I alway record it to see what I missed. Fortunately my daughter was home because she called and said the bull riding was on versus, so I asked to record the game on FSN. But, come to find out, FSN was doing the game in HD too.
Is it really that hard to keep people informed..why block the Versus feed anyways?
Confusion
Mon, 04/27/2009 - 10:11 — lightthelampIt was confusing, I'm surprised they didn't explain this better. The local broadcast has the rights over the national in this case, so the national (Vs) is blacked out. It's all about who owns the rights to put commercials in front of you.
Broadcast issues, especially with cable, have been a recurring theme this year. They dropped almost an entire game and have had several other interruptions. Glad I finally got off the wire and went to satellite.
It was Directv screwing up
Sun, 04/26/2009 - 22:27 — odictamisIt was Directv screwing up on Game 5 and now TWC screwing up tonight. Seems to be a bad pattern developing here for fans who just want to watch the game.
fox
Sun, 04/26/2009 - 20:24 — guppyman45it's a radical left wing conspiracy because fox owns the broadcast rights. fox owned by rupert murdoch. murdoch owns fox news. fox news is far right. you see where this is going.
Hey guppyman
Mon, 04/27/2009 - 08:07 — esteban1949I'm a "Independent Populist,Centrist"...and blind as a bat...what do you see ?? And the only thing i ever watch on Fox is nascar...other than that...murdock can go wipe himself with all the newspapers he has left...
Go Canes !!