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TBS just released this statement in regards to tonight's broadcast:

"Two circut breakers in our Atlanta transmission operations tripped, causing the master router and its backup -- which are necessary to transmit any incoming feed outbound -- to shut down. This impacted our live feed from being distributed to any of the other networks in the Turner portfolio and caused the delay in our coverage. Both our primary and backup routers were impacted by this problem. We apologize to baseball fans for this mishap that caused a delay in our coverage."

Jeff Pomeroy, a spokesman from TBS, said that the issue was discovered just ``minutes'' before the game was due to come on the air at 8 p.m. Asked if both the main and backup routers had ever failed at the same time before, Pomeroy said ``it's never happened before.''

Pomeroy said that the router problem prohibited the network from showing the game signal on another sister network, like TNT or the Cartoon Network. The game was not seen for roughly 20 minutes, or the entire first inning.

--Joe McDonald

 Tags  ALCS Red Sox TBS

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