TV audience irate after ABC’s Kentucky-Auburn broadcast is going out for greater than half-hour

The Auburn Tigers beat the Kentucky Wildcats handily on Saturday, however many TV audience did not get to observe lots of the 2nd part. (Jordan Prather-Imagn Pictures)ABC generously spared Kentucky lovers from having to observe everything of an extraordinary lopsided house loss.The community’s feed swiftly minimize out with greater than 12 mins left in top-ranked Auburn’s emphatic 94-78 victory at Rupp Enviornment.With Auburn already with ease forward by means of 16 issues, middle Johni Broome spun round his defender on and went up for a left-handed layup. TV audience by no means noticed Broome’s shot roll in since the display screen went blue after which ABC minimize to ads.When ABC returned from a longer business ruin, its studio staff defined that there have been “technical difficulties at Rupp Enviornment” and that audience would see the Kansas-Texas Tech recreation airing on ESPN till the problems had been mounted. The community ultimately switched as a substitute to pregame protection of the NHL recreation between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Boston Bruins.The published of the Kentucky-Auburn recreation ultimately returned, no longer on ABC however on ESPN Information, with simply over two mins final and the Tigers with ease forward by means of 14. Play-by-play announcer Dan Shulman informed audience {that a} generator at Rupp Enviornment had stuck on fireplace and that it had knocked the printed off the air for “a protracted, very long time.”The Auburn-Kentucky broadcast returned at 3:31 p.m. ET with 2:23 final within the recreation… on ESPNews as a substitute of ABC. Dan Shulman informed audience that the ABC broadcast went out as a result of a generator at Rupp Enviornment “stuck on fireplace.” percent.twitter.com/pBTYihFRYA— Terrible Pronouncing (@awfulannouncing) March 1, 2025The response on social media from the ones looking at Auburn-Kentucky used to be about what you’ll be expecting. There used to be confusion, anger and a number of jokes:What an absolute embarrassment for @espn and @ABC totally dropping protection of the Auburn/Kentucky recreation in the course of the second one part. Each networks will have to be ashamed. #wtf— C1NHEISMAN (@HOLDTHELINE_AU) March 1, 2025Did ABC simply surrender?— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) March 1, 2025