It riles viewers in the Pacific and Mountain time zones who always get taped coverage of what is shown live in the Eastern and Central zones during the evening.
On Feb. 8, 1981, Morgan was on his first assignment for ABC Sports, helping provide taped coverage of the bobsled championships for "Wide World of Sports".
NBC Sports defended its taped coverage of a streaker who leaped onto Center Court at Wimbledon during a rain delay in the men's final yesterday.
If NBC hadn't shown all taped coverage on Sunday night, he said, "then all we would have been able to show was the Latvia-Slovakia hockey game".
Rather than follow the leader, Woody Austin, live -- he would be the leader with a round of 63 -- the all-golf network offered viewers taped coverage of primarily Tiger, who finished seven strokes back.
Fox Sports New England, which had to leave the game after the first overtime to show the Boston Celtics' game in Milwaukee, had to come back with taped coverage of the final three periods of the Saints-Terriers game.
He added that "plausibly live," which was intended only to explain that the taped coverage was to be shown as if it were happening live, "really turned around and hurt us".
CBS takes over on the Tour's three Sundays with a taped summary of the week's events, and is the first to show the final stage into Paris (Sunday from 5 to 6 p.m .. OLN will follow from 8 to 11 p.m. with taped coverage of the stage.
But it also had to promise to go beyond its universe of 36 million cable homes, which is less than half of ESPN's, so it bought time on Fox Sports Net to provide half-hour weekday updates and on CBS to offer one hour of taped coverage on three Sundays.
Oh sure, Lindsey Jacobellis was competing herself into a DQ on Tuesday afternoon but that HAD to wait for tape delayed coverage in prime time, according to the network gurus.
