Oh no...Direct tv

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Just looked ahead to get all the specifics for the championship game on Dec. 19. As of now, Direct TV is not carrying ABC and guess who is televising it...yes, ABC! This had better get fixed by the 19th!
 
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Just looked ahead to get all the specifics for the championship game on Dec. 19. As of now, Direct TV is not carrying ABC and guess who is televising it...yes, ABC! This had better get fixed by the 19th!
Are you in a location where an HD antenna won't work?
 
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Just looked ahead to get all the specifics for the championship game on Dec. 19. As of now, Direct TV is not carrying ABC and guess who is televising it...yes, ABC! This had better get fixed by the 19th!

Just buy a cheap antenna
 
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Ugh, hadn't even thought of that. Whoever owns WOI will be holding us Cyclone fans hostage in their negotiations with DirecTV over the next couple of weeks.

I have an HD antenna but honestly, I haven't watched a sporting event "live" in years now. I always DVR and start watching it 45 minutes to an hour after it starts so I can speed through the commercials and halftime. I also like being able to re-watch games later on if they were good, and hopefully this one will be for us.
 
Depending on where you live have always had issues getting the WOI over the air signal. Weaker than the other local channels.
 
NW Iowa Sioux City market is one of the areas this site says work to stream local channels if an HD antennae doesn't work for anybody.

 
Just buy a cheap antenna

Around 2002 I was an HDTV early adopter in Chicago (my HD CRT was gigantic and still only 28").

When I hooked up my HD antenna the amount of local sports in HD I got in that era was STAGGERING. Probably 3/4 of the entire Cubs/Sox/Bears/Bulls/Blackhawks seasons on local channels and a picture that was a quantum leap forward.

Since then a lot of sports content has gone cable tv and streaming, but having an HD antenna has been easily worth the 20 bucks for almost two decades now. Not a year goes by where I don't end up using the antenna for a handful of games including ISU.

I'm going to watch Lazard and the Packers play on CBS with my HD antenna in a few hours.
 
Around 2002 I was an HDTV early adopter in Chicago (my HD CRT was gigantic and still only 28").

When I hooked up my HD antenna the amount of local sports in HD I got in that era was STAGGERING. Probably 3/4 of the entire Cubs/Sox/Bears/Bulls/Blackhawks seasons on local channels and a picture that was a quantum leap forward.

Since then a lot of sports content has gone cable tv and streaming, but having an HD antenna has been easily worth the 20 bucks for almost two decades now. Not a year goes by where I don't end up using the antenna for a handful of games including ISU.

I'm going to watch Lazard and the Packers play on CBS with my HD antenna in a few hours.

This year ISU has been on OTA a few times. I usually flip to antenna because the pic and sound quality is just so much better.