NeutralObserver
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I use the TuneIn app on my phone, have had it for a few years now, and have never paid anything. If you want to skip ads, and get full access to NFL games and some other special events, then you have to pay. I think that is called TuneIn Premium? Basic TuneIn that lets you listen to your various local stations shouldn't cost you anything.
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On 1/3/2017 at 9:39 PM, fightingsioux4life said:
So all these years, they were able to make money with WDAZ covering Grand Forks and Devils Lake. And now, all of a sudden, they can't?
You can buy that load of *bleep* if you want. Me and Fetch are not.
And I still cannot figure out how KVLY and KXJB can be owned by the same people in the same market. Maybe it is time we start enforcing our anti-trust laws instead of rubber stamping every merger that gets proposed.
Technically, "KXJB" doesn't exist anymore, as NBC and CBS are just on two different subchannels of the same station now. The FCC actually did start wanting to deny and break apart the multiple ownership/marketing arrangements, so companies worked around that by buying a station, moving the network to one of their channels, and then reselling one channel to someone else. There's no rules about multiple major networks being on one channel. It's actually helped many rural areas, who now get more channels than they did before the digital transition.
So in the Fargo market, you have the station that used to be KXJB now carrying a whole bunch of minor networks created for digital subchannels. Some call then "diginets". MeTV, Buzzr, Antenna TV, etc.
Same thing happened in Bismarck, the owners of NBC bought the Fox station, moved FOX to subchannels of the NBC affiliates in western North Dakota, and sold the old Fox stations off to someone else who put Heroes and Icons and BEK sports on it. That actually increased the FOX coverage area so it can be seen by more people now over the air.
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Bismarck has local news on two stations. The Grand Forks market is a little smaller, but close enough that the idea of not having any local news is stupid. Even Minot has one full local news and one partial local news (unless that's changed with the new owners of both the CBS and NBC station groups).
Even Williston has partial local news on their NBC station.
The selfishness of the Fargo TV stations has always bothered me, and I don't even live in the Eastern part of the state.
Instead of covering their part of the state with multiple towers giving multiple over the air signals like western ND, you have a couple instances of putting up one tower to reach part of the area, and saying screw you to the areas in Eastern ND that it can't reach.
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On 11/13/2016 at 8:25 PM, SiouxVolley said:
Thanks. I was remembering back before they expanded the playoff to 24. The rules were different when they had 16 and then 20 teams.
The first two weeks are Saturaday, ESPN3 only games.
The Quarterfinals will have two games on ESPN/ESPN2, one on Friday and one on Saturday. Semifinal broadcast on ESPN2 and ESPNU.
Found this good summary of the games.
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On 11/21/2016 at 2:06 PM, UNDColorado said:
This is exactly it and I will not buy into it. I have stuck with this team since the D1 transition and I will be damned if I will cheer for another team "because it is good for the state." To those who throw out that argument- prove it, because i would bet money that these people would not support UND.
I agree, when it is your rival you don't cheer for them to win. I went to Dickinson St, and when Mary or Minot St was in the playoffs, I wanted them to lose because I didn't want them to get farther than my team did.
On the other hand, though, for people that didn't go to NDSU or UND or live close to Fargo or Grand Forks, like myself, it is a different story. I cheered for UND when Todd Kovash was quarterback because he was from my high school. Still cheered for NDSU in the playoffs. Cheered for UND in the championship games against Grand Valley St. Cheered for NDSU the last 5 years. This year I'll cheer for both as far as they go.
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3 hours ago, ND1 said:
For the first round espn releases the rights to whomever, meaning Midco could and I assume would televise it. After the first round ESPN maintains all rights to programming
Pretty sure ESPN keeps everything to themselves now, especially since they have ESPN3 to put all the games on. I don't think they let anyone else in on showing the games any more.
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The last safety was in 2011. I think Jared Allen had two in one game when he played for the Vikings. Someone at Fox messed up.
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16 hours ago, UND-RedSox fan said:
I have much more knowledge of baseball history. If it happened before 1998 or so and it isn't about Jerry Rice or Barry Sanders, I would be a blank. I'm pretty sure you just made up those two names.
I was born in 1973 and know many players and history of the major sports from before I was born. And I learned most of it before the Internet even existed. I believe that people that are fans of a sport should know its history. Its so easy nowadays with sites like wikipedia. pro-football-reference.com, basketball-reference.com, baseball-reference.com, etc to look up certain teams/players or even the general history of the sport.
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Not oil, but who among you public companly investors can tell me who this is:
Uranium Exploration, Inc.
They issued shares in 1953, but can't find what became of them. Now a different company, still with value? Or a defunct company with worthless shares?
There used to be a uranium mine around Belfield, and other places in the state.
Map of Uranium deposits
https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/mineral/uranium.asp
Article from about 2007 about renewed interest.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-09-06-1930458336_x.htm
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I think that can be said of a lot of the restaurant joints people point out. Some people swear by Red Pepper, while others don't get it. I think a lot of the reviews are based on nostalgia.
Nostalgia can cloud people's judgement when it comes to food. For instance, as a Dickinson native, when I moved to the Bismarck/Mandan area, we tried Big Boy a couple of times, and found it to be nothing special. Very overrated for how Bismarck natives act about that place. I'll be fine if I never get anything from there again. But the people that grew up with it love it. Similarly, Dickinson natives over a certain age love the Schmidt Dairy Queen BBQ (now sold by the Dairy Barn). (most people would call it a Sloppy Joe) People from elsewhere would probably try it and not understand why it is so big, but when you grew up with it you love it and want to have it as an adult.
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I believe that SDSMT and BHS would qualify as DII schools. Both are very new to DII and building the programs but they would be available for games.
Good point on those schools as I did forget about them... Black Hills is in the Rocky Mountain conference, which is also very full, but it looks like they leave space for a non-conference game. They are playing Montana St this fall.
SD Mines has a couple years here with a more open schedule in the GNAC, then is also joining the RMAC.
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To give them a little credit it was their 12th game penciled in, but no SD DII teams are available? At least DII will give you partial credit for a playoff spot, DIII does nothing, nor does USD's William Penn (NAIA).
The South Dakota D2 teams are in the Northern Sun, which is so big they play no non-conference games any more. So no, there are no D2 teams in the immediate area with open dates for opponents at any level.
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I don't believe I said they recruit. I'm actually in agreement with you.
Sorry, I was referring to the post you were referring to. Not sure why the embedded quotes didn't get included.
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Dickinson had a Model high school at one time as well, on the campus of Dickinson State.
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Why would they cap their enrollment around 150 when the cuttoff for Class A is around 325?
Trinity doesn't cap their enrollment. Believe me, everyone involved with Trinity would have loved to be at least the size of St Mary's and have 400+ students back in 1991 when the school dropped to Class B. You can't force people to send their kids to a school, especially with rising costs that cause tuition to go up.
And this recruiting lie in the other post really is getting annoying. People that spread this stuff around need to provide more proof. Name one player that you question that you think was recruited and let people respond to it. Post it on a site like the northdakotapreps.com and let the high school posters have at it. I can tell you that almost all of the players that I can think of that were on Trinity's state championship teams were kids with Catholic families with multiple ties to the school. How is that recruiting when those kinds of kids go there?
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It is strange. You almost want them to win the division but be the 3 seed so that they don't have home field advantage.