Channel 2 excited to bring UGA-Georgia Southern game to TV viewers
Say this for WSB Channel 2: The Atlanta television giant likes its Bulldogs
Not only did the station step up to broadcast Georgia’s 1:30 p.m. game today against Georgia Southern — SEC guidelines allow members to produce one game per year outside the league’s contracts with CBS and ESPN — but it also will be providing UGA content throughout the day Saturday.
- At 10 a.m., coverage begins with “Bulldogs Gameday,” WSB’s regular, weekly, hour-long program dedicated to the coverage of UGA athletics.
- At 12:30 p.m., the station will air a special edition of “SportsZone,” which will provide pregame coverage up until the 1:30 p.m kickoff. The show will be anchored by Channel 2 sports director Zach Klein. He will be joined by Channel 2 Action News anchors Jovita Moore and Fred Blankenship, and former Georgia quarterback D.J. Shockley will provide his insight and analysis
- At 1:30 p.m., game coverage begins at 1:30 p.m.. Veteran sportscaster Bob Neal and former Georgia player DJ Jones will be in the booth and Klein will serve as sideline reporter.
“We are very proud of our station’s pledge to cover local sports here in our state,” said Tim McVay, Channel 2 vice president and general manager. “Channel 2 is the official home of University of Georgia sports and that is a badge of honor for us. To have a football game available for us to locally produce is a dream come true.”
All the coverage will be carried to households in a 53-county TV market that that encompasses metro Atlanta. The game will also be carried on both DirecTV and DISH.
“WSB has been a great partner over many years and this is another way that partnership has come to the forefront,” UGA athletic director Greg McGarity said. “We look forward to bringing this special game to our many fans in the WSB footprint around the state.”
Channel 2, WSB-TV is the No. 1-rated station in Atlanta. It is owned by Cox Media Group (CMG), which also owns and operates the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and AJC.com.
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86 comments Add your comment
Dwayne
November 17th, 2012
11:50 am
To Erkseagles…you WANT to listen to the GSU radio clowns???? wow, that’s hilarious!!! Any way, Go Eagles…a little….I want UGA to win out and ND to lose, could care less about KS and Oregon
Put in Timeout by Ken Suguira,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned once by Bill King & Chip Towers but only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
November 17th, 2012
11:51 am
GSU FAN…………the Eagles should stay in the FCS IMO.
GSU Fan
November 17th, 2012
11:53 am
BTW if you don’t know it, Georgia Southern is ranked as one of the Top 10 (#7) Most Popular Universities in America.
GSU Fan
November 17th, 2012
11:55 am
Why should they stay in the FCS, they have done all they can there. Six National Titles. They need to move on. They are expanding the stadium by 20,000 after the season. Georgia Southern could beat Vandy and Ga. Tech for sure.
Put in Timeout by Ken Suguira,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned once by Bill King & Chip Towers but only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
November 17th, 2012
11:58 am
Because…of all that HISTORY is why I say stay in the FCS…..They know the system they play well in the FCS system and it will be a HARD Step-up. The recruiting in roads to compete with the SEC teams and TECH in the state is going to be very difficult.
GSU Fan
November 17th, 2012
12:01 pm
I don’t think they will have ANY trouble recruiting against Tech
Put in Timeout by Ken Suguira,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned once by Bill King & Chip Towers but only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
November 17th, 2012
12:12 pm
GSU FAN…why? You have the easier Majors but if a kid likes the Triple Option and the FCS then GaSou wouldn’t be a good choice. CPJ does it better than CJM at GaSou.
Put in Timeout by Ken Suguira,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned once by Bill King & Chip Towers but only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
November 17th, 2012
12:13 pm
And a TECH Diploma is a lot better than a GaSou Diploma after football.
Tom
November 17th, 2012
12:18 pm
GATA!
JA770
November 17th, 2012
12:19 pm
Welcome South Brother WSB makes good on promise so “Win Saturday Bulldogs”.
Thanks decision makers – and game day advertisers – at Channel 2 !!!!
pb
November 17th, 2012
12:38 pm
Hey GSU Fan,
For what it’s worth, GSU is really Georgia State Univ., not you guys. Since they have been a university a lot longer. ( SInce early 1960’s, I believe.) You can call your school GSU if you insist, but to most people, it is still Georgia Southern. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Mike Franklin
November 17th, 2012
12:42 pm
Must just be just Atlanta that ESPN3 is blacked out. Just looked again and there is this:
“You can watch this event on ESPN3″
Mike Franklin
November 17th, 2012
12:43 pm
GSU Fan – yes, I know GSU is no podunk school. I was speaking in ref to how the NETWORKS view this game… not the fans or people of this area.
RiffRaff
November 17th, 2012
12:53 pm
Would be something to still have Munson on the radio and Keith Jackson on the tube……….Oh Nelly!!
Jimmy Baron
November 17th, 2012
12:57 pm
I love all these liberals who expect, no, demand to watch the game for FREE. Ain’t the ObamaNation great!
Mark Richt
November 17th, 2012
1:00 pm
Go screw yourself Dwayne
CC
November 17th, 2012
1:09 pm
Thanks WSB. GO DAWGS!
DawgNole
November 17th, 2012
1:16 pm
greg
November 17th, 2012
7:01 am
Games from all over the country are available here in Savannah but Comcast isn’t carrying UGA vs GSU.
Expect to see a lot more dishes in south Georgia.
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Dump Comcast; they’re the WORST! DirecTV is the best of the dish providers. For those of us not in the WSB “footprint,” today’s UGA game is available on Espn Game Plan–Channel 792 on DirecTV–but as is the case with most Game Plan telecasts, it’s not in HD. It also costs $$$.
The WSB coverage will have technical glitches and lousy announcers, but that’s what you get when you pay for Ws by bringing overmatched opponents to your house. In any event, it’s always good to see a local station step up when situations like this arise, so a tip of the cap to WSB.
Andy
November 17th, 2012
1:16 pm
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Andy
November 17th, 2012
1:18 pm
will wsb stream the game so those of us in south ga who don’t get channel 2 will be able to see it?
DawgNole
November 17th, 2012
1:20 pm
GSU Fan
November 17th, 2012
11:47 am
Mike Franklin,
Georgia Southern IS NOT a SMALL SCHOOL! They have 22,000 students, and a campus 50 acres bigger than UGA. Southern just voted to move to the FBS from the FBC in two years. This is not a little school.
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What’s the “FBC”? Hello?
DawgNole
November 17th, 2012
1:21 pm
GSU Fan
November 17th, 2012
11:55 am
Georgia Southern could beat Vandy and Ga. Tech for sure.
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Not so sure I’d be bragging about that.
Jimmy Baron
November 17th, 2012
1:28 pm
It’s 1:30……….. time for some FREE UGA football, y’all! LOL
Mike Franklin
November 17th, 2012
1:46 pm
ESPN3 is showing the WSB feed
Aman
November 17th, 2012
3:00 pm
Funny that a UGA fan was telling Southern fan they should stay in FCS and UGA is struggling.
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November 17th, 2012
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Herschel Walker's Jock Strap
November 17th, 2012
5:53 pm
I watched it on Xbox even though it was blacked out on Charter! Charter sucks!
Kirk
November 17th, 2012
8:47 pm
The season is just about over, but just an FYI, the game was televised on ESPN3. Several of the games this year have been as well, although there have been blackout issues. The way we actually watched it was on our TV this way: Roku box using the PlayOn app (streams content straight from PC) and using their ESPN3 channel. Overall, worked pretty well.
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November 17th, 2012
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Concerned
November 17th, 2012
9:18 pm
I hope everyone enjoyed the TV broadcast from channel 2. At the stadium, the TV time outs were twice as long as the longest ESPN breaks. I for one vote for WSB staying away from televising sporting events independently.
Fire Bob Neal
November 17th, 2012
9:30 pm
Bob Neal is HORRIBLE! Half the time he thought he was calling a baseball game. The guy is an idiot, says idiotic things, states the obvious and does it horribly and almost never gets anything right – names, stats, etc. He’s painful to listen to.
I don’t have a radio or else I would have muted the TV to listen to radio broadcast.
Smooth Operator
November 18th, 2012
7:25 am
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Great to watch the Dawgs today. Thanks WSB!!!
Take it all the way!!!
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Jborodawg
November 18th, 2012
9:41 am
Thank you WSBtv!
Bob Neal is no Brent Musburger, but he did a better job than any of you who complain about him could have.
RE the “coverage area”: If you receive WSB-TV, you got the game.
‘ugab’, I’m just south of ATL with ATT U-verse. I get the Big 10 channel. Go figure.
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