French Open TV Schedule Official Thread

KingSonal said:
There is about a 1% chance of getting either of the matches live. Let's just look back at the men's semifinals coverage for the last three years. Three years ago, Nalbandian and Gaudia were shown taped delayed on NBC at 10 am. Henman and Coria were shown taped delayed later in the day on espn. No problem right? Well espn ran past their allotted time for their TAPE DELAYED coverage and had to switch channels during the middle of the 4th set.

Then there was the coverage two years ago. This faux pas was an all-time classic. The first semifinal, Puerta v. Davydenko is delayed by rain. NBC goes on the air at 10 am and tells us that they will show us the Nadal-Federer semifinal live. They said they are waiting for the first semifinal to finish first. They tell us that the first semifinal can be seen later on in the day on espn2. Then Ted Robinson goes, "Right now, Davydenko is leading Puerta two sets to none." What??? Then NBC proceeds to show taped coverage of previous matches while Puerta comes back and wins the match in 5 sets. Oh yeah, NBC alerts us to the fact that Puerta comes back, but they don't show us any of the coverage. Needless to say, anyone who wanted to watch that match needn't bother. Thankfully, the Federer-Nadal match is then shown in its entirety.

Then last year they screwed up again, but not as bad. Federer played Nalbandian in the first semifinal. That match was over by the time NBC came on the air, and Nadal-ljubicic was going on live. NBC decides to show us the Federer match taped delayed. The Nadal match wasn't aired until 6:30 pm on espn2.

So anyway, I'm not expecting anything different tomorrow. I will be waking up early and trying to find online streams to the matches. Luckily Davydenko is in the first semi, so I know there are some Russian television feeds available online.
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Did you find any live feeds?
 
It's really annoying. Most countries in the world (including Colombia, where I'm from) will have both matches LIVE. And here, in the United States, we won't have them. And it's not even Sat or Sun... it's a damn Friday. It's the stupid NBC crap. They buy the rights for the semis and screw everybody. We should do something so that this does not happen again next year. Too bad I need bulbs for my home and I can't boycot GE.
 
Thanks for the links. I'm getting the TTC for the French only (part of a marketing scheme) so it's all good. But I could have used those this morning. I'll keep those in mind maybe for Tomworro
 
Rybo said:
For those in the U.S. with Comcast cable, they're giving a free preview of the tennis channel throughout the french open tournament. Right now they're showing Agassi/Courier.
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rybo what channel is that? cuz with comcast im confused and i've hardly seen any matches which sucks. because they would show other stuff when it states tennis is on. pacific time preferred. pretty much the only matches i've seen are andreev vs rod, serena up to 4th round, sharapova 4th rd, QF and fed vs youzhny. so the channel would help a lot. esp for the final.
 
I live in the southeast usa and totally missed the women's final this morning. Anyone know if it will be televised again? :sad:
 
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