Night Moves: UNC, Duke Have Late Starts Times Due To Popularity

UNC, Duke Get Late Tipoffs Because They Bring Viewers

ROOT FOR THE HOME TEAM: CBS throughout the tournament in some markets has cut away from games that include local teams in order to air "other games featuring dramatic finishes," but in Milwaukee, Bob Wolfley wrote he would "prefer to see the entire ending of the home teams' closely contested games ... rather than some other teams' finishes." What local viewers "gain in tournament flavor from other sites, they lose in coherence and continuity of the games they care about the most." By trying to show "both games to viewers particularly interested in just one of them, you end up missing portions of both" (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 3/25). However, in Buffalo, Alan Pergament writes while CBS' coverage of the tournament "wasn't perfect" during the opening weekend, it is "hard to argue too much with most choices and game switches." CBS' decision last Thursday to cut away from the Duke-Binghamton game for the more competitive UCLA-VCU game "may have frustrated" Buffalo-area fans. However, UCLA's 65-64 win "was a much better game than Duke's." Regardless, ratings for last Thursday night in the Buffalo area were up 21% from '08 on CBS (BUFFALONEWS.com, 3/25).  

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