Get The Tivo Ready, Pacers TV Schedule Released
Fox Sports announced the official television schedule for the upcoming Indiana Pacers season today, and there's good news and some bad news. Good news first? Yeah, let's go that route.
Indiana's two preseason games that will be played overseas will both be televised for those of us staying home for the trip. The Taiwan game will be aired live on Oct. 8 at 7:30 a.m. on Fox Sports Indiana, while the game in China will be aired at midnight on Oct. 11. Both games will re-air in their respective evenings. Chris Denari will handle the play-by-play, but he will be joined by special guest analysts, including team president Larry Bird, according to the team's press release. Those are the only preseason games being aired on FSI.
And then on to the bad news. For those of us who love and enjoy the use of High-Definition to air sports contests, we will be severely disappointed for another Pacers television season. Only 15 games will be broadcast in HD this year, including the home season-opener against the Heat. Six of the 15 HD games are road contests. I guess I'm just ready for the Pacers to air more than 20 percent of their games in HD. Seems like this shouldn't be a problem in 2009.
As usual, FSI will air 72 of the 82 games this season, with six of those 10 "dead-air" games played in other arenas. The usual suspects return to hold down FSN's broadcasts as Denari will be joined by Clark Kellogg, Quinn Buckner and Stacey Paetz.
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My Good News/Bad News
Good news, I don’t have FSN in HD, so I’m fine with watching the games in regular ol’ Standard Def. Bleh.
Other good news is both Clippers games are on the slate. Since I’ve actually adopted the Clippers as my second team because of how much I like the guys on this team (with Gordon as the catalyst), it’ll be great to see them in action against the Pacers since I don’t believe either game was televised last year. And as long as Gordon doesn’t drill corner threes in OT to sink the Pacers, I’ll be down for watching both games.
Bad news, what’s up with no Oklahoma City games again this year? I know the Thunder aren’t that great, but I haven’t seen Kevin Durant play an actual basketball game in two years. I’d love to see this guy play, but lack of national TV AND local TV really stinks, especially in seeing Danny/Durant matchups. I think they might have a couple of national games this year, I’ll have to make an effort to catch them.
Don’t like the at Minnesota and at Oklahoma City not being on air, making six days without Pacers basketball…in January. That’s going to be a long time in the dead of winter to not have the Pacers, gotta hope the Colts are doing well in the playoffs.
And it’s a shame there’s only one Sunday afternoon/evening game this year. I know there were only a couple last year, but I certainly enjoy watching those Sunday afternoon games.
Having that China game to wake up to is going to be nice, even if I won’t get to watch all of it (or maybe I will? I don’t know). Waking up to live sports? Now I’ll know how people out West feel on Sundays.
what about radio?
i figured my nba pass would let me listen to the game tonight but it was down. with highschool sports going on, its often difficult to get the radio broadcasts. anyone know the schedule/regulations regarding the games on the radio? nothing beats a lil ‘boom baby’ !!!

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