Ok, this same thing must have happened to me, because I tried to watch, but it was just cartoons!
I got all 5 hours last Sunday from my affiliate, WLWT Cincy.
No doubt because of the competition showing the last day of baseball with some races undecided and the local NFL team away game on from 1 to 4. Guess they figured they were on the bottom against that anyway so why not.
Take it a little easy on the Golf, guys. It is a huge ratings producer and it was the Ryder Cup. Big ratings mean happy advertising buyers at it IS a business.
To nit pick…as much as I enjoyed all 5 hours? If I did not know what I was watching? I would not have learned anything or understood what I was seeing. I even got a little lost in the Dressage… I thought some jerk was running loud music over the speakers for half the performance before I figured out it was Freestyle. Imagine a total novice at it trying to understand.
At any rate, thank you to WLWT for picking that coverage up.
The entire broadcast was available here in Boston, and it was fantastic to see horses on network teevee, but I have to agree with findeight … if I didn’t already know what was going on, the coverage would have left me confused.
It went a little beyond that, in fact … and I think the non-televising of Fuego’s round is a good example. I noticed (and granted I’m a huge fan in the original sense of the word) that the x-country shots often lingered on horses just galloping along between efforts, top rides weren’t shown (don’t remember any of the leader William Fox-Pitt), many influential fences were never even glimpsed, the names of the jumps never captioned … stuff like that.
Pretty much all the drama and backstory was missing … it was almost played like a big anonymous horse show, look at all the horsies, so many rich people too, back to you Jane sort of thing.
I was thrilled to see coverage, and I’ll write to thank the broadcasters, but from what I saw there wasn’t much effort to gain fans for the sport.
Does anyone know what disciplines they are covering tomorrow? I’m trying to decide if I want to go to my FIL’s house and usurp his TV again like I did last Sunday. 
Actually, I’m pretty sure they showed quite a bit of his cross country ride. I don’t follow eventing much, but I remember thinking he and his horse made it look easy.
The promo for tomorrow’s show sounded like a mishmash of different things. I just hope they have the show jumping final.
