The Ohio State Buckeyes and Wisconsin Badgers had an exciting finish in the Big Ten Championship Game, but a large amount of Bay Area viewers apparently missed out on the action on local Fox channel KTVU.
Many Bay Area viewers tweeted that they lost audio of the game in the final minutes, and DirecTV subscribers said they lost video coverage of the game as well.
Awful Announcing’s Ben Koo says he lost audio of the game on DirecTV with 3:20 left (8:43 PM PT) in the fourth quarter, and the coverage of game was lost entirely with 2:53 left (8:49 PT). Coverage didn’t resume until the Buckeyes’ trophy celebration at 9:08 PM PT.
Fuck this!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/SuLU7dYIYR
— Ben Koo (@bkoo) December 3, 2017
Other DirecTV viewers in the Bay Area also tweeted about completely losing coverage of the game.
https://twitter.com/alexwarneke/status/937182975019511810
@DIRECTV in the Bay Area pic.twitter.com/9j6SaaL52E
— Anthony Chen (@chenthony) December 3, 2017
Yeah, the sound was out for a while now the video is too
— Eric Darling (@thesmark88) December 3, 2017
At a bar with DirecTV, the picture went black repeatedly early in the 4th quarter.
— Ben (@ben_hamin12) December 3, 2017
@DIRECTV on @KTVU in the Bay Area. First had video with no audio which was fine. Then they took away video.
— The Phil, The Myth, The Legend (@Phil_EDAF) December 3, 2017
Comcast and Dish viewers in the Bay Area tweeted that they lost audio of the game in the final minutes.
Did anyone else lose the audio to the Big Ten broadcast RIGHT NOW?? … My other channels are fine. This is maddening.
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) December 3, 2017
Me too DISH?
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) December 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/AndrewGothelf/status/937184077332938752?s=17
Comcast, SF Bay Area. Audio dropped.
— Tolu Thomas (@ToluThomas) December 3, 2017
Audio problems on Xfinity in San Francisco
— Ben Ross (@BenRossTweets) December 3, 2017
And KTVU heard from many pissed off viewers on Twitter. Mister One is a particularly angry customer.
http://twitter.com/MisterO97550822/status/937186176699478016
Why was there no sound for the last ten minutes of the game on KTVU Fox 2 (San Francisco)? It was terrible to miss the last ten minutes of audio for such an important game. @KTVU
— Chris Mireya (@chrismireya) December 3, 2017
Nobody has volume right now on your channel, can you fix it thanks
— Kevin Jones (@Mr_KevinJones) December 3, 2017
@CFBONFOX DOES FOX KNOW IT LOST THE SOUND ON THE GAME OR IS IT JUST IN THE SFBAY AREA? @KTVU
— David M Lowe (@DMLSolstice) December 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/bd_14/status/937183018204119040
This guy at least had a good sense of humor about the crazy events of the fourth quarter.
On mine they went to a guy profusely pushing dust into the turf for like 45 mins
— Deplorable Jeff (@HuskerJeff) December 3, 2017
[Photo Credit: Anthony Chen on Twitter]
About Matt Clapp
Matt is an editor/writer at The Comeback and Awful Announcing.
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