Brighton Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 rgbilliken and Davis like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 10 minutes ago, Brighton said: First forward pass and first on ESPN. Now lets get our first sweet 16. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brighton Posted September 7, 2022 Author Share Posted September 7, 2022 SLU won 2-0 BTW and slu72, first BB program to be ranked #1 in the AP Poll too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 The game was actually played 6 days earlier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUBillsFan Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 15 hours ago, thetorch said: The game was actually played 6 days earlier. I saw that the broadcast was a 12:30 AM and assumed this had to be a re-play. Kind of wild that in 1979 the soccer game was recorded to be re-played 6 days later. Was the game originally broadcast on another channel and ESPN picked it up to replay it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Elrond Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 I think back then replays was mostly what ESPN did, I don’t think when they started they had rights to live broadcast anything majerus mojo likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majerus mojo Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 In the ESPN oral history they mention the early days were mostly about filling time slots with anything they could get the rights to. Nothing live for a bit/was also a decent amount of dead air. One of their bigger breaks was getting the rights to televise the early rounds of the NCAA tournament. Believe CBS was only airing the ~Elite 8/Final 4 initially if that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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