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And that city is Louisville. Louisville residents have a serious bone to pick with CBS, who cut away from their hometown team's close game during perhaps its most pivotal stretch. CBS cut to the final minute of the Missouri-Marquette game, which would have been fine, except that Louisville was currently trailing No. 9-seed Siena by two. During the almost three game minutes that elapsed, Louisville rallied back to take a 68-63 lead over Siena ... and Louisville viewers missed it all. And they are peaved:

CBS was supposed to provide a "constant feed" of live U of L game action and not cut away from the hometown team, WLKY president and general manager Glenn Haygood said. But Haygood said CBS interrupted the broadcast for reasons unknown to him. He said there were no alternate live feeds provided by CBS that WLKY could switch to.

"I was as furious as any Louisville fan," Haygood said. "I was fit to be tied when I saw what was happening. … We were doing everything we could to find a satellite channel that had the Louisville game on it. We would have broadcast it. There was not one that CBS provided."

If the local CBS station head was "fit to be tied," you can imagine the average Louisville fan. Actually, don't do that. That would get frightening.

In fairness, CBS' cuts are typically really well done; Chris praised them for just that this weekend. They've mastered the art of switching between games. So something tells me that this was a flub rather than an intentional programming decision. Either way, it's a major mistake, one CBS would do well to make up to Louisville-area viewers in the near future. That's a big, big college market down there. Assuage these people, Les Moon Vest. Say, free Zesto for a year? That ought to do it.

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  1. DewPower
    1. Posted by DewPower Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:50 pm EDT

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    It's HEIDI all over again, except this time only in Louisville.
  2. I_heart_UK
    2. Posted by I_heart_UK Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:54 pm EDT

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    This just proves that God is a UK fan :)
  3. Joseph B
    3. Posted by Joseph B Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:41 pm EDT

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    fifth
    sounds kinda like heidi
  4. hola
    4. Posted by hola Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:57 pm EDT

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    They should get over it lol they won anyway
  5. James Bond
    5. Posted by James Bond Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:35 pm EDT

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    This same thing happened to East Lansing. Michigan State was in a close one with SC, again in the pivotal stretch.
    Of course, haters of the Big Ten forget to say this.
    Go State
  6. Chris C
    6. Posted by Chris C Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:33 pm EDT

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    lol
  7. Luke L
    7. Posted by Luke L Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:05 pm EDT

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    first page??
  8. Big Dick
    8. Posted by Big Dick Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:58 pm EDT

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    It really should't matter cause Connecticut is going to win it all ANYWAY!!!!
  9. Tim
    9. Posted by Tim Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:10 pm EDT

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    Could they have picked a better backwoods duo to serve as the picture for this story?!?! :-)
  10. paul b
    10. Posted by paul b Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:15 pm EDT

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    it's still pretty bad CBS would do that i mean that is the city that the university resides in. If they can't watch their own team play instead of Mizzou and Maquette i think that's pretty bad.
  11. Luke L
    11. Posted by Luke L Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:05 pm EDT

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    i would be so pissed if that happened during my precious villanova game
  12. Big Dick
    12. Posted by Big Dick Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:58 pm EDT

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    Yeah I said it! And I meant it to.
  13. salzburg_1
    13. Posted by salzburg_1 Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:01 pm EDT

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    I love these stories. I just laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
  14. JD
    14. Posted by JD Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:38 pm EDT

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    are you on the team... no........... o well then.... so u missed the ending of the game get over it really....... go to espn and see the high lights... you act like its the end of the world or somthing......
  15. yerrr
    15. Posted by yerrr Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:53 pm EDT

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    yerrrr
  16. Tim W
    16. Posted by Tim W Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:10 pm EDT

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    Shame on you CBS.
  17. Cristian
    17. Posted by Cristian Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:16 pm EDT

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    woo
  18. MARKP
    18. Posted by MARKP Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:28 pm EDT

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    I live in NC, I watched the entire game via the internet, cbs.com. They had all the games on there. Maybe they need to use computers ic louisville
  19. Luke L
    19. Posted by Luke L Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:05 pm EDT

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    the guy on the left is my hero

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