[WBB fan]

no live tv?!?!? 

6 pac-12.com stations, with 3 games being broadcast live (including cal-colorado). and then nothing live at 9, and 7pm games broadcast at (my sling guide says) 10:30.

presumably they are short of broadcasters and each pair will double up and do a game tape-delayed as if it were live.

imo it would be MUCH better if stanford would just live-stream the game. i just emailed eileen roche and wilder treadway.

The way to test if they are short of broadcasters or channels is to check if the Stanford-Utah will be streamed live. If it will be streamed live, it means that they are short of channels, not broadcasters. In the Bay Area we have the Pac-12 Net (Comcast 823) and Pac-12 Bay Area (Comcast 1330). Pac-12 Net is carrying the conflicting UA-ASU game at 6 PM, either because of contractual requirement or because it is deemed to be of greater interest across the whole Pac-12. Pac-12 Bay Area is carrying the Cal-CU game at 7 PM. Yes, Cal is at the bottom of the standings, but I think they are contractually entitled to a certain amount of live coverage. So Stanford-Utah gets pushed into replay time.
Note that the treatment is reversed on Sunday, with our CU game carried live and the Cal-Utah game pushed into replay time on Pac-12 Bay Area.
Lastly, this is opening weekend for softball, with Pac-12 Net carrying many softball games, creating more competition for time slots.

you seem knowledgeable about pac-12.com. how are they short of channels? they have 12 teams and 6 channels. how is it that they have 6 channels yet only show 3 games? every week with or all games show on 2 channels rather than 1?

for what it's worth, wilder treadway wrote back right away to say that pac-12.com says the game is on the pac-12 mountain channel at 7; ignore what sling says. i wrote back,

thanks. i hope you’re right. as i understand, pac-12.com requires us to sign in to a tv provider in order to watch the game. since the pac-12 still doesn’t have a contract with directv, many of us use sling; so we do depend on sling’s actual programming rather than on pac-12.com’s intent.
we'll see if sling or pac-12.com is correct.

While the Pac-12 has the main channel ("Net") and six regional channels (Bay Area, Los Angeles, Mountain, etc.), with Comcast in the Bay Area I only get two channels, Net and Bay Area. So, for tonight's game, there are only two channels for broadcasting the game live. And the time slot has been given to competing programming as noted above. This is what I meant by shortage of channels. But, as I have Comcast, I will be able to stream the game live.
I notice that the Stanford-Utah game is listed as a Pac-12 Mountain production while the Cal-CU game is listed as Pac-12 Bay Area production. Does this mean that Comcast customers in Utah and Colorado will see the Stanford game live and the Colorado game on delay, i.e., the reverse?
I am not familiar with the channel availability on Sling. If you can get all six regional channels, including Mountain, you might be be able to see the game live on Sling.

yes, that's what i am saying. i pay for and receive all 7 channels on sling, but almost always, 3 or 4 of them duplicate what is being shown on other channels. i can't remember ever seeing 7 different programs listed.

If you have dish or comcast/xfinity or several other providers, you can get any of the Pac-12 network regional channels on your computer/tablet/cell phone at no extra charge.

[WBB fan]

no live tv?!?!? 

6 pac-12.com stations, with 3 games being broadcast live (including cal-colorado). and then nothing live at 9, and 7pm games broadcast at (my sling guide says) 10:30.

presumably they are short of broadcasters and each pair will double up and do a game tape-delayed as if it were live.

imo it would be MUCH better if stanford would just live-stream the game. i just emailed eileen roche and wilder treadway.

The way to test if they are short of broadcasters or channels is to check if the Stanford-Utah will be streamed live. If it will be streamed live, it means that they are short of channels, not broadcasters. In the Bay Area we have the Pac-12 Net (Comcast 823) and Pac-12 Bay Area (Comcast 1330). Pac-12 Net is carrying the conflicting UA-ASU game at 6 PM, either because of contractual requirement or because it is deemed to be of greater interest across the whole Pac-12. Pac-12 Bay Area is carrying the Cal-CU game at 7 PM. Yes, Cal is at the bottom of the standings, but I think they are contractually entitled to a certain amount of live coverage. So Stanford-Utah gets pushed into replay time.
Note that the treatment is reversed on Sunday, with our CU game carried live and the Cal-Utah game pushed into replay time on Pac-12 Bay Area.
Lastly, this is opening weekend for softball, with Pac-12 Net carrying many softball games, creating more competition for time slots.

you seem knowledgeable about pac-12.com. how are they short of channels? they have 12 teams and 6 channels. how is it that they have 6 channels yet only show 3 games? every week with or all games show on 2 channels rather than 1?

for what it's worth, wilder treadway wrote back right away to say that pac-12.com says the game is on the pac-12 mountain channel at 7; ignore what sling says. i wrote back,

thanks. i hope you’re right. as i understand, pac-12.com requires us to sign in to a tv provider in order to watch the game. since the pac-12 still doesn’t have a contract with directv, many of us use sling; so we do depend on sling’s actual programming rather than on pac-12.com’s intent.
we'll see if sling or pac-12.com is correct.

While the Pac-12 has the main channel ("Net") and six regional channels (Bay Area, Los Angeles, Mountain, etc.), with Comcast in the Bay Area I only get two channels, Net and Bay Area. So, for tonight's game, there are only two channels for broadcasting the game live. And the time slot has been given to competing programming as noted above. This is what I meant by shortage of channels. But, as I have Comcast, I will be able to stream the game live.
I notice that the Stanford-Utah game is listed as a Pac-12 Mountain production while the Cal-CU game is listed as Pac-12 Bay Area production. Does this mean that Comcast customers in Utah and Colorado will see the Stanford game live and the Colorado game on delay, i.e., the reverse?
I am not familiar with the channel availability on Sling. If you can get all six regional channels, including Mountain, you might be be able to see the game live on Sling.

yes, that's what i am saying. i pay for and receive all 7 channels on sling, but almost always, 3 or 4 of them duplicate what is being shown on other channels. i can't remember ever seeing 7 different programs listed.

If you have dish or comcast/xfinity or several other providers, you can get any of the Pac-12 network regional channels on your computer/tablet/cell phone at no extra charge.