The STRANGEST BROADCASTING CONTROVERSY in Arizona Cardinals HISTORY | Cowboys @ Cardinals (1997)
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- In week 2 of the 1997 NFL season, Arizona TV station KTVK, otherwise known as Channel 3 (Arizona's Family) had the local rights to broadcast the Sunday Night Football game on TNT on over-the-air television between the Arizona Cardinals and the Dallas Cowboys, provided that the game sold out. Everything looked good to go. And then, the Cardinals blew an 18-point lead to the Bengals... and everything changed for the worse, causing a massive broadcasting controversy that has to be seen to be believed
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1997 was a great season for anyone who hated the Cowboys.
You got that right. That curb stomping the Packers gave the Cowpukes at Lambeau in 1997 was almost as satisfying as winning the Super Bowl the previous year. Almost lol
KTVK's decision is even more staggering when you consider that they had _no_ network affiliation. Three years previously, a series of deals between networks and owners of large groups of stations led to a domino effect of affiliation changes on a grand scale, starting with the one between Fox and New World (which led to Channel 10, then KTSP, going from CBS to Fox and changing its call letters to KSAZ). Then, from there, ABC and Scripps Howard worked out a deal where all Scripps Howard stations would be affiliated with ABC, but this led to a problem in Phoenix: KTVK was not owned by Scripps, but Channel 15 (KNXV) was, so KNXV (the former Fox affiliate) went to ABC. KTVK ultimately became an independent station (and has been independent ever since). Point being, it's not often an indy station has the chance to air an NFL game, so passing on it made no sense.
E.W. Scripps didn't affiliate all of its stations with ABC, just certain ones. Its station in Tulsa, KJRH-TV, has been an NBC affiliate since signing on in the '50s. Ditto for West Palm Beach's WPTV and E.W. Scripps put NBC on Kansas City, Mo.'s KSHB-TV after it lost FOX in the same deal that put the latter network on KSAZ (just a straight network swap with WDAF-TV).
Oddly enough, E.W. Scripps used CBS, which just lost the NFC package to FOX, as leverage to get ABC on some stations (CBS badly wanted in on Scripps' ABC affiliates in Detroit and Cleveland) and that's how ABC got on KNXV-TV instead of KTVK. Even when ABC tried to pay Scripps $24M to back off its demand to affiliate with KNXV, Scripps wouldn't relent. KTVK tried to get CBS, but we know how that went. Given that KTVK was an indy when this Cowboys/Cardinals game came around, what was it gonna air that was gonna get the ratings or pull in the ad revenue this game was gonna get? What a short-sighted and strange decision.
“The NFL really cares about its fans and wants to make sure everyone gets to see their home team play.”
Me: *starts typing furiously*
“Shows tweet about exclusive streaming rights for playoff games.”
Me: Never mind, you got there 😉
I had to look a second time to see that it's a playoff game. They've finally found a way to top MLB at screwing their fans.
It will still be on local TV in the teams' markets. But I think we can all agree that the peacock deal is stupid
This Cardinals team went 4-12 but they were pretty competitive. They had 4 games go into overtime and 6 of their losses were 1 score games. They had 3 straight losses by a combined 8 points. This was Jake Plummer's rookie year. The next year they went 9-7 and went to the playoffs where they beat the Cowboys in Dallas 20-7.
was literally going to type this
the 90's cards had the biggest uphill battle of any team
Cardinals best game ever not being watched in Phoenix is the most Phoenix thing ever. Ill also add the blackouts are prolly why Im a Steelers fan and not a Cardinals fan.
DAMN
I don't know what KTVK's normal ratings are, but they would have been better off spiking the ball on every single play during this time...
Well done, sir.. Well done.
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@@seancanova7396before I talk about the controversy in question
That was the final season that TNT televised NFL games. Between 1990 and 1997 TNT would televise Sunday night games the first half of the season and ESPN the second half. Starting in 1998 ESPN televised every Sunday night game, until NBC took over in 2006, and ESPN doing Monday night games.
I thought TNT did a great job with SNF in 1990 - 1997
If not for the NBA TNT wouldve been perfect for Thursday Night Football
@@RetroJR3379 yep but maybe they could use TruTV though.
@Run Rafa Run #THEBESTINTHEWORLD Wont be bad idea and also TBS
Also the first NFL streaming playoff game being on Peacock is so dumb. Who on earth voluntary has peacock and watches it regularly?
2015 when they decide to put the Cards/Panthers Wild Card exclusively on ESPN the rating was so bad that they ended the exclusive and simulcast on ABC
5:40... "the last sellout was against the Cowboys on Christmas night 1995". I think Jerry Maguire was in the stands that night wasn't he?! Maybe that's why it sold out!!
_SHOW ME THE MONEY!_
@@drewzuhosky6826 Id rather have him show the highlights of how this game ended!!
'looks dat way'. leo getz thing done.
My recollection of the Cardinals years at Sun Devil Stadium were that the only time they'd sell out was when the Cowboys came.
And i recall one game in 94 when Buddy Ryan guaranteed a win ... only for the Cardinals to get shutout.
Ah yes, back before the Cowboys became a laughing stock.
And a better line to end on would have been, "In 1997 Arizona's Family, was pretty dysfunctional."
Even when they were in St. Louis, they were known as the Cardiac Cards. Some things never change.
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To be fair the Bengals were bad in the 90s but from 95-97 they were at least mediocre. Going 7-9 in 95, 8-8 in 96 (Firing the abysmal Dave Shula after a 1-6 start) and 7-9 in 97.
Yeah, I kept thinking that they would make the playoffs, and then they went back to being 🗑 🚮 💩
We were thinking "ooh a Shula? No way!!!,.....ohhh DAVE Shula?.....nevermind....
Kind of think Sun Devil Stadium and old Foxboro Stadium were ranked as one of the worst NFL stadiums back then as both were mostly bleachers for seating. In 1997, the Cardinals were still looking for their franchise qb as they recently drafted Jake the Snake Plummer.
just one time in my life I want to hear Jerra cry out "Touchdownnnnnn!..............NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
This was quite an overreaction by 3TV. It seems as if it was looking for an excuse not to air that game. Also, the Cowboys used to have radio affiliates in Arizona pre-Cardinals.
Yep, I just can not rememeber what that affilate was. I dont think it was KTAR, unless Dallas was on the Westward One network.
@@johnnelson1446 KTVK. KTAR had been the NBC affiliate in the 70s until it changed to KPNX.
TNT did carried NFL games ever Sunday night from 1990 through 1997 depending on a cable company.
Not every Sunday, just through Halloween. After that, ESPN aired the balance of the season.
I guess whatever radio station aired the cowboys/Cardinals game must have had some more listeners than usual that night
10 years b4 KTVK had done exactly what they didn't do here. It was the 1st home game here in Arizona's history & the opponent was the Cowboys. Nobody wanted to suffer the embarrassment of not being able to sellout the game & not being able to view it locally due to blackout rules. At least back then there were only 3-5k tickets to buy up & the cost for an individual ticket was less. A lot of those tickets were given away on radio station contests so there could at least be a semblance of a sellout in the stands to the rest of the country.
Wasn't the Blackout radius for Cable games only 35 Miles? It was said it's televised in Tucson regardless of whether it sold out or not.
Surely there's another story to be made about a different TV station in a different market who forked over hundreds of thousands so they could televize a blowout loss by a crappy hometown team
Az's family, didn't act like family
OUCH
I literally don't get KTVK's decision when it was a game involving the Dallas Cowboys in the middle of their dynasty as "America's Team"
KTVK now owns preseason rights to the Cardinals. Maybe that's an apology after this controversy?
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Hold up. In 1997, there were 64M cable subscribers who could've seen the game on TNT without the simulcast. Given that there's 2 people per household in the US (ballparking it for single person apartments and families with kids), that's half the country right there. Now factor in that most the football fandom had basic cable to enjoy ESPN - who held the rest of the Sunday Night package during the 1990s, and that most bars had cable at the time, and I don't think it's the 39.6 you're making it out to be. Heck, I was in college and even we had cable with ESPN/TNT in our dorms during the mid-90s.
The way TNT lost the right I hope that TNT or TBS get another shot plus free publicity if it the Falcons vs Jags
This was the last season of TNT having the first half of the Sunday Night NFL package. Beginning with 1998. ESPN would have both halves of the package which led to a mess with Major League Baseball, as by many older people baseball was still looked at as KING and to many such it would have been "beneath MLB" to allow ESPN to move Sunday Night Baseball to ESPN2, resulting in games that were scheduled for 8:05 once the NFL started being given back to the local outlets, including the game that ended Cal Ripken's streak.
I think that rather than giving those games back to the local outlets, i would have put those games on NBC (which had postseason rights at that time.)
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KTVK knew that That the Cardinals blew chunks, I don't blame them
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