from Dan Arritt and Larry Stewart Los Angeles Times staff writers June 2, 2008 at www.latimes.com:
In some parts of the country, “CBS EliteXC Saturday Night Fights” was delayed and, in one case, not shown at all.
In the Billings, Mont., area and parts of central Ohio, some viewers tuned in but found a prescheduled Children’s Miracle Network telethon instead. Most of those CBS affiliates chose to show the MMA event at a later hour.
That wasn’t the case in Greensboro, N.C., where WFMY gave rights to the event to a low-wattage network 25 miles away in Reidsville, according to program director David Briscoe. Instead, the CBS affiliate televised a 1992 made-for-TV movie called “Getting Up and Going Home,” which stars Tom Skerritt as a divorced attorney who copes with his mid-life crisis by having multiple affairs.
In an earlier statement sent to greensborosports.com, Briscoe wrote: “We have concern for the content in CBS’ EliteXC.”
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