If you go into MS Public Broadcasting studios and control rooms, you will not see anything but top of the line and ultra current equipment. All the way from boards, cameras, monitors, editing to vehicles. Better than any commercial broadcast stations in the state. They have to spend that budget/money somewhere.
Is it any suprise that they use that equipment every once in a while just to knock the dust off it? It's like having a Gran Prix/F1 racer in the garage. No place to use it.
edited to add-- The game is being broadcast HD on FREE MS Public Broadcasting stations around the state. If you get ETV then you get the game.