By Josh Albarran – February 24, 2013
On Saturday at Noon ET, WABC-TV (Channel 7), the ABC
Television Network’s owned-and-operated and flagship station in New York City
aired a NCAA College basketball game between Seton Hall and No. 4 Louisville.
It was the first time that a regular season hoops game would aired on that
station since they last aired as part of the network’s regular-season coverage
(those games would moved to sister channel ESPN following the end of the
2008-09 season). That game was produced by ESPN, but was not nationally
televised by ABC (it was streaming broadcast instead on ESPN3.com via
WatchESPN) while they continued to air the final hour of its Litton’s Weekend Adventure children’s programming
block on the rest of its stations. ABC currently holds the rights to air the
semi-finals and the championship of the SEC Men’s College Basketball
Tournament, which will take place in March, in fact ESPN had took over ABC’s
sports operations since the 2006 merger by their parent company Disney.
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