{"id":15566,"date":"2011-11-25T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15566"},"modified":"2011-11-25T09:55:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T14:55:31","slug":"tv-not-priority-for-inaugural-battle-4-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/tv-not-priority-for-inaugural-battle-4-atlantis","title":{"rendered":"TV Not Priority For Inaugural Battle 4 Atlantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARADISE ISLAND, BAHAMAS &#8212; When UConn played in the Maui Invitational a year ago, local fans simply had to tune their televisions to ESPN to watch the Huskies.<\/p>\n<p>This year, things aren&#8217;t quite as easy.<\/p>\n<p>The Battle 4 Atlantis is broadcast on two networks, Versus and HDNet. The latter was recently added for some Comcast subscribers in Connecticut, but is not in the lineup for viewers with Cablevision.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14868\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14868\" title=\"george-markantonis-atlantis\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/george-markantonis-atlantis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/george-markantonis-atlantis.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/george-markantonis-atlantis-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Markantonis, Atlantis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s win over UNC Asheville was broadcast on HDNet, and today&#8217;s semifinal against UCF will be on Versus, which is available to Cablevision and Comcast subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Because the Battle 4 Atlantis is in its first year of existence, televising the tournament on a major network wasn&#8217;t the biggest focus for Kerzner International, the company that spearheaded the Battle 4 Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you right now &#8212; our first priority was not TV,&#8221; said Kerzner International president and managing director George Markantonis. &#8220;We wanted a great preseason college basketball tournament because we are a perfect location.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the Battle 4 Atlantis is in its first year of existence, televising the tournament on a major network wasn&#8217;t the biggest focus for Kerzner International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[109,131,56],"class_list":["post-15566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-atlantis","tag-sports-2","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}