Duke head coach David Cutcliffe got his wish: Time Warner Cable will broadcast the Blue Devils' game in the Carolinas. Credit: CHRIS SEWARD-cseward@newsobserver.com
7 p.m. update
Thanks to an 11th-hour agreement with Time Warner Cable, the Duke vs. Stanford game will be available on TV in the Carolinas, and viewers can watch Duke try to win its first road game against a ranked opponent in 41 years Saturday night at 10:30 p.m.
(Side note: In addition to Duke battling its own road history, Pac-12 teams have won 75 percent of their games against East Coast opponents in the past five years. Other fun facts in my story today about road game woes.)
Time Warner Cable customers who have the sports pass (which could be added for this weekend's game for $7.95) will be able to watch the Blue Devils in standard definition on channel 518. Time Warner Cable is the only service provider in the Triangle area that carries the Pac-12 network (sorry, Direct TV users).
The TV scramble stems from the fact that the Pac-12 network has exclusive rights to the Duke vs. Stanford game, which has a 10:30 pm EST kickoff. The national Pac-12 network game, though, is Oklahoma State at Arizona in the same 10:30 PM time slot (and that game will still be available locally on the Pac-12 channel). Originally, the Duke vs. Stanford game was set to only be available on TV in a regional Pac-12 network that is limited to the San Francisco Bay area.
To add the sports pass, all it takes is a call to Time Warner. The add-on service can be cancelled at any time.
Comments
BLOW OUT?
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 19:17 — melvinfurdI offer up my sincere apologies for my lousy prediction; Dookies lost by only 37 points.
Blow Out?
Sat, 09/08/2012 - 13:13 — melvinfurdLikely, Stanford will easily rout the Dookies and very few people will be watching the game or the commercials.
Hah
Fri, 09/07/2012 - 13:28 — mad_maxDon't worry Laura, nobody around here actually wants to watch that game. In fact, that's probably why it's not available.
Man
Fri, 09/07/2012 - 18:33 — JPDOhioThere are a couple of fans really mad about this.
Possibility
Sat, 09/08/2012 - 10:57 — SurferYou may be correct.... but word has it that there might actually be 3 ;-)
said fans can now rest
Fri, 09/07/2012 - 19:30 — laura_keeley (author)said fans can now rest easy...provided they are not scrambling to find a friend with Time Warner Cable. Thanks for reading!
Life is good
Fri, 09/07/2012 - 21:57 — JPDOhioJust found out that a local station up here is picking up the Big East Network feed of the NC State-UConn game. Go figure.
Watch out
Fri, 09/07/2012 - 13:56 — YAR8packLaura has some bite. Of course that's most likely a welcome thing around these parts.
Lol
Fri, 09/07/2012 - 23:12 — mad_maxHopefully she knows I was just teasing.
indeed.
Sat, 09/08/2012 - 08:57 — laura_keeley (author)indeed.