I'm not a big NBA fan, but that is a good example. Studio, with Ernie, Sir Charles, and Kenny the Jet is SO GOOD, it's worth watching it and not the game! Then TBS gets the playoff games, until the finals, when they are switched to an inferior network. Sad.

For you youngsters, you may not remember a time when "March Madness" was just getting started. ESPN began the phenomenon by televising the first two days (Round 1), and the product was INFINITELY superior to what CBS has done to it since it took over everything. Key difference was ESPN had the freedom to switch in and out of games at will, and the games were scheduled so that 4 weren't all ending at the same time. Alas, those days are gone forever. Some of the allure, to me, was feeling like you were in on a great little secret that the rest of the country hadn't discovered yet. As you might guess, once everybody else discovered it, it was tainted forevermore. Sigh.