Monday, September 26, 2011

Dear MSG:

Well, can I get an AMEN!  MSG Relents and will broadcast this game.  (nothing to do with me though)

Here is the news from the Islanders website.



MSG ADDS NEW YORK ISLANDERS PRESEASON GAME VS. CALGARY TONIGHT



New York, NY – September 27, 2011 – MSG Network and the New York Islanders announced today that tonight’s 9 p.m. preseason game against the Calgary Flames has been added to the 2011-12 Islanders broadcast schedule and can be seen on MSG Plus.



MSG Plus will deliver Calgary’s TSN (The Sports Network) production, via the NHL Network, live from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.



MSG Networks will telecast 81 of the New York Islanders 82 regular season games.



The Islanders open their regular season at home against the Florida Panthers on Saturday, Oct. 8 at 8 p.m. on MSG Plus. A half-hour pre-game show will precede all Islanders games this regular season and most games will be followed by a post-game show. "HOCKEY NIGHT LIVE,” which is telecast on both MSG Network and MSG Plus, will follow Saturday night games throughout the season.



MSG Networks continues its unprecedented commitment to the NHL as MSG Network and MSG Plus combine to telecast more than 300 live Rangers, Devils, Islanders and Buffalo Sabres games during the 2011-12 hockey season.




Have we been down this road before? I think we have. But I'd like to ask the reasoning behind not airing any of the NY Islanders pre-season games while airing both the Rangers vs Devils and Rangers vs Flyers games on TWO MSG channels. Seriously.

Please, enlighten me as to why Saturday night's game against the Devils, another one of the three teams you broadcast, was not aired anywhere except a local website feed?

Explain to me the broadcast rights, the cost factors or simply --

YOUR ABSOLUTE REFUSAL TO CATER TO ISLANDER FANS IN ANY WAY.

Yes, we've been down this road before. And while the Dolan family made a video of public support to keep the Islanders in Uniondale, they do nothing to adequately serve the fanbase.

Games are routinely broadcast on overflow channels that are non-HD, HD signal is not offered to other cable providers and each season you can't even offer us ONE preseason game on TV?

Yeah, thanks for the support, but it feels empty.

Islander Fans Everywhere

1 comment:

Sign Guy aka Patrick said...

I agree 100% Dee and can only think had MSG treats the Long Island team as the third wheel,so to speak. Hope all is well.