Last year, it looked like a few enterprising individuals put together coverage maps for the NCAA tournament. Anything available this year?

I'd like to see this too.

I can't find them anywhere either. But for its worth, the website of the local CBS affiliate in Boston lists which games they are primarily showing in each time slot in their listings grid. This may be true for other areas as well. Worth a shot if you are really curious if a game you want to see will be on in your area.

(I also replicated the list in the Boston Comcast thread if anyone is interested)

My local CBS station programmer just told me that CBS no longer allows locals to carry different games on analog and digital. :(

Coverage Maps?? Mega March Madness is the solution.

Coverage Maps?? Mega March Madness is the solution.

Would be nice to know for those of us using the free MMoD to know which game we are getting in HD ;)

Would be nice to know for those of us using the free MMoD to know which game we are getting in HD ;)

Or for the MMoD Iphone app. like I'll be using most of the day. ;)

there is a MMoD iPhone app? What is it called on the app store?

CBS Sports NCAA March Madness On Demand

I did some googling, and it looks like hdsportsguide.com put up some coverage maps last March, but that site has been on autopilot for months, so I'm not getting my hopes up.

Coverage Maps?? Mega March Madness is the solution.

I have it, I'm just always interested in the coverage maps regardless....same with football.

No maps are available this year.

Good god, WHY aren't they available? Is someone at CBS or DirecTV so arrogant they don't want us to know which games are being primarily carried? It's unconscionable...

There were five teams in the tournament from Ohio (the most of any state). I get three Ohio CBS affiliates, WHIO, WKRC and WBNS. For some reason none of these affiliates showed the Akron vs. Gonzaga game, opting instead to show the Michigan game. The Ohio State game was shown in place of the Cleveland State game (expected). Dayton and Xavier were on at the same time on Sunday. Dayton was carried by WHIO-DT and CinCW, while Xavier was carried by WKRC, WBNS and WHIO-WX. It would have been nice to have all of this information on a coverage map, rather than having to track it down.

Because of all of these conflicts, I ended up getting the march madness package from DirecTV.

Moot point now. Once you get to the sweet 16, all the games will be shown.

Four games per day, Thursday/Friday, two games per day, Saturday/Sunday.

Moot point now. Once you get to the sweet 16, all the games will be shown.

Four games per day, Thursday/Friday, two games per day, Saturday/Sunday.

Not so. Both tonight and tomorrow night there are four games in two windows (i.e. two games at a time). There is a bit of an overlap, but you will not be able to see all games in their entirety until Saturday.

In Boston the primary games today are Purdue/UConn and Villanova/Duke. Tomorrow its Syracuse/Oklahoma and Gonzaga/North Carolina.

Not so. Both tonight and tomorrow night there are four games in two windows (i.e. two games at a time). There is a bit of an overlap, but you will not be able to see all games in their entirety until Saturday.

In Boston the primary games today are Purdue/UConn and Villanova/Duke. Tomorrow its Syracuse/Oklahoma and Gonzaga/North Carolina.

I stand corrected. :)

Not so. Both tonight and tomorrow night there are four games in two windows (i.e. two games at a time). There is a bit of an overlap, but you will not be able to see all games in their entirety until Saturday.

In Boston the primary games today are Purdue/UConn and Villanova/Duke. Tomorrow its Syracuse/Oklahoma and Gonzaga/North Carolina.

I'm beginning to think Espn would do a better job with the tourney. They would show all 4 games tonight in their entirety, two on Espn, two on the Espn2. With all the jumping around CBS does with the games, you end up seeing bits and pieces of several games...They drove me crazy last weekend with all the jumping around trying to cover all the close games.

I'm beginning to think Espn would do a better job with the tourney. They would show all 4 games tonight in their entirety, two on Espn, two on the Espn2. With all the jumping around CBS does with the games, you end up seeing bits and pieces of several games...They drove me crazy last weekend with all the jumping around trying to cover all the close games.
Also with ESPNU HD and the possibility of ESPN Classic becoming ESPN3 or having an HD simulcast, that would definitely help in the first and second rounds.

Also with ESPNU HD and the possibility of ESPN Classic becoming ESPN3 or having an HD simulcast, that would definitely help in the first and second rounds.

CBS could do more of this. This year (and last year, I think) they aired two games on CBS College Sports. Both were out-of-market for me, so it was a little bonus. Would have been better if I had that channel in HD (if it is in HD?).

Theoretically they could use that channel all day during the first two rounds, but that would likely deeply cut into the subscription rate of the Mega MM package on D*. And possibly lower viewship of the MM On Demand online, which CBS claims generated $30 million in ad revenues this year.

http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/mens_basketball/articles/2009/03/27/demand_great_for_ncaas

If you really want to watch a particular game, CBS has all the games online. I have heard that some people just hook up their laptop to their TV and then watch the games there.

I think CBS is doing a terrific job with the men's tournament. ESPN has disappointed me with the women's tournament, with no games in HD that I have seen.