Edith Grove wrote on Sep 22
nd, 2015 at 2:33pm:
It's over.
To Who It May Concern,
Hello. My name is Tim Bliss and I live in downtown Cullman. I’m 28 years old and an avid NFL fan of the Atlanta Falcons team. I have noticed over the last several years more and more times than not, WBRC choosing to air games featuring the New Orleans Saints over the Atlanta Falcons.
Yes I realize that we have quite a few folks living here now that are originally from New Orleans that were displaced because of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. I realize that you may want to appeal to those fans. But there are many more Falcon fans here that have lived here a very long time and had grown accustomed to Fox 6 WBRC airing the Falcon games here.
As you can see by this image, Birmingham is an Atlanta Falcons designated TV market. That makes sense considering that Birmingham really is not all that far from Atlanta and that quite a few folks commute from Birmingham to Atlanta and vise versa every single day. New Orleans is twice as far away from Birmingham as Atlanta is. So why do those games get priority over the Falcon games?
To make matters even worse, this weekend the Falcons are playing against the Cowboys. The Cowboys get a huge airing across the nation because of their history and yet this weekend their game is not being aired because they are playing the Falcons. Instead the Saints game against the Panthers is being aired.
I am a very loyal viewer of Fox 6 WBRC and have been for several years. But, I am growing extremely disappointed with the direction this station has decided to take and I am very close to taking my viewership towards the other news stations in the Birmingham TV market.
Thank you,
Tim Bliss