I figured I should post a different thread. I figured the Austinites might not notice if I posted in Drumr's thread. According to Darrin at Ringers, they get Telefutura. So my plan is to be there. It's at 415 Colorado. I'm pretty sure that's almost next door to the original Alamo Draft House. I called a few other places (BD's, the Tavern), and while they said they had DirecTV (which supposedly carries the Telefutura local channel here in Austin), they said they didn't have Telefutura. At the moment, I don't have any backup plan if this doesn't pan out.
I suppose Dave & Busters would be worth calling. Maybe. For those folks that are out in the Hill Country.
Code: [U]Network Affiliate Local Channel # 3-Digit Channel # (for older receivers)[/U] UPN KBEJ 2 905 Fox KTBC 7 906 PBS KLRU 18 907 ABC KVUE 24 908 NBC KXAN 36 909 CBS KEYE 42 910 [B]TFT KBVO 51 904[/B] WB KNVA 54 911 Uni KAKW 62 912 They probably didn't know what Telefutura was. Tell them to tune in channel 51.
No. The guy that was in charge of setting the channels found 51 all right. And it had the game listed all right. But all it gave him was a black screen. Which was what the other bars were getting that I had called. Apologies to anyone that showed up there that I *didn't* meet. It looks like the bars here really do not have Telefutura available to them. Makes me wonder if you don't get it even if you personally have DirecTV. This totally, totally irrevocably insanely sucks. Congrats, those of you that got to watch this game. We didn't. But that was, as far as I know, only 5 of us, so I guess that's not much of a loss to CONCACAF.
Well, you're not missing that much. USA improved during the final 20 minutes of the 1st half, but the first 25 minutes were some of the worst I've seen in years from the USMNT.
Yeah, every one of them that I called tried. But it appears that the package the bars get doesn't get anything above 850 or so. Seems as the bars don't need to see local TV. I wonder what they do when a game is on a local channel. Guess they're simultaneously broadcast on some other channel. Oh, well. Hope y'all enjoyed the game!
After the Brazil v USA Fado fiasco on Telefutura at the Confederations Cup a few years ago - unless the bar has The Dish - I don't trust nobody.
Only the oldest DirecTV receivers would have the game on those channel numbers. I've got a first-generation DirecTV receiver at home and that's how I have to tune in the D/FW channels. On most every other DirecTV receiver, however, you would just punch in the regular channel number (channel 007 for KTBC, channel 036 for KXAN, or whatever). It's pretty similar with DISH, too.