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Versus marketed this with the line, "Someday, someone may ask you, 'Where were you during the Cyclysm? Both Comcast and the NHL have the right to void the final year of the contract. Versus televised a weekly regular-season game for 11 weeks as well as a wild card playoff game. Versus added college basketball to its schedule for the season, as it secured the rights to broadcast eight men's Mountain West Conference basketball games, including the Conference Championship game.
ESPN's other package, which includes a Thursday game, games on holidays, and Division Series playoff games, expired after the season and has been awarded to TBS , replacing the Thursday night games with a Sunday afternoon package. OLN was expected to bid on those rights as well.
Versus did air the 12th annual Cal Ripken World Series in and has rights to air the 13th annual in Versus is beginning to program a variety of combat sports. In , Versus entered the boxing arena with a series of fight programs promoted by Bob Arum 's Top Rank group. OLN began to show qualifying regattas in late In addition, the network has signed for a Saturday night "Game of the Week" for the National Lacrosse League starting with the season.
During this time, Versus blacked out NHL coverage on these systems, replacing them with other programming. It is believed that the reason behind these blackouts had to do with a penalty fee that Comcast would have had to pay the NHL if they did not significantly increase their distribution. However, in OLN has offered live and commercial-free coverage via streaming video on its website of the Giro and Vuelta, with a Sunday highlights show of the week in review of not just the Grand Tours, but Classics as well.
Versus is available in significantly fewer television households than ESPN. As of April , the network was only available in 59 percent of households in the Los Angeles media market that have cable and satellite service.
In Game 1 of the Western Conference quarterfinals between the Dallas Stars and the Vancouver Canucks , Versus cut away during the third overtime intermission to show a paid infomercial in many markets.
Some Versus viewers were left unable to see the fourth overtime in which Henrik Sedin scored the winning goal at into the period. Versus' coverage schedule is also a source of confusion. For example, it was originally reported that the network had exclusive rights to carry the entire playoff series between the Canucks and Anaheim Ducks in the Los Angeles market, with the games not shown on local outlets.
FSN West conceded that the start of Game 4 would probably have to be shown on a split screen because it overlaps with the expected end of a regular season Major League Baseball telecast Angels at Royals.
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