[jonnyss]

I agree.. the 12:00 time is so inconvenient, but do think it has to do with COVID and trying to air as many games as possible since fans are not able to attend. I’ve just rescheduled a 1:00 meeting so I can at least follow the score..

So what is the theory for why during COVID we are having so many games during working hours?  I will have to miss tomorrow's game, and it is not the first this season, since I have work commitments during that time.

Those time slots would never have been chosen pre-COVID.  Is it that they think without fans in a gym, viewership ceases to be important?

like you, i assumed at first it was to air as many games as possible...but no!

looking at my sling channel guide for tomorrow, i see oregon women at utah at 2, arizona at sc at 4, arizona at ucla at 6. unless i misread the guide, they are not broadcasting any game at noon (we have only the wsu webcast);  so we are not at noon to accommodate the pac-12 network. looking at the wsu website, they don't have a volleyball or men's basketball game tomorrow, so our game is not early to accommodate another sport in the gym.

no good reason. what's up, bernard?

the schedule's a mess, the tv coverage is a mess. the pac-12 network has a bunch of channels - 4 or 5,  so they can broadcast more than 1 game in a time slot. my memory says they used to do just that. my observation this season is they now have just one game on at a time, playing on all the channels.  and they are not even using all the time slots!

i presume they are using fewer film crews to save money so they can pay the executives more. are they perhaps even using the pandemic as an excuse to have the broadcasters work from a distance and cover more than one game per day?

[jonnyss]

I agree.. the 12:00 time is so inconvenient, but do think it has to do with COVID and trying to air as many games as possible since fans are not able to attend. I’ve just rescheduled a 1:00 meeting so I can at least follow the score..

So what is the theory for why during COVID we are having so many games during working hours?  I will have to miss tomorrow's game, and it is not the first this season, since I have work commitments during that time.

Those time slots would never have been chosen pre-COVID.  Is it that they think without fans in a gym, viewership ceases to be important?

like you, i assumed at first it was to air as many games as possible...but no!

looking at my sling channel guide for tomorrow, i see oregon women at utah at 2, arizona at sc at 4, arizona at ucla at 6. unless i misread the guide, they are not broadcasting any game at noon (we have only the wsu webcast);  so we are not at noon to accommodate the pac-12 network. looking at the wsu website, they don't have a volleyball or men's basketball game tomorrow, so our game is not early to accommodate another sport in the gym.

no good reason. what's up, bernard?

the schedule's a mess, the tv coverage is a mess. the pac-12 network has a bunch of channels - 4 or 5,  so they can broadcast more than 1 game in a time slot. my memory says they used to do just that. my observation this season is they now have just one game on at a time, playing on all the channels.  and they are not even using all the time slots!

i presume they are using fewer film crews to save money so they can pay the executives more. are they perhaps even using the pandemic as an excuse to have the broadcasters work from a distance and cover more than one game per day?