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Big Ten Network (BTN)

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VBSJ;2177893; said:
One criticism the network got, I think it was Chicago Tribune (but not certain), was that BTN covered the Urban Meyer hiring press conference wire-to-wire, but not the Penn State/Louis Freeh press conference Thursday.

So the criticism was, Meyer's hiring was a news event and Thursday's was also a news event.
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The Tribune fails to realize that the hiring of Meyer dealt with sports directly, whereas the Freeh press conference dealt with an investigation into administrative cover-up of child molestations and did not deal with sports.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;2178236; said:
The Tribune fails to realize that the hiring of Meyer dealt with sports directly, whereas the Freeh press conference dealt with an investigation into administrative cover-up of child molestations and did not deal with sports.
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I think Pedo Sandusky didn't see any difference. :(
 
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VBSJ;2177893; said:
One criticism the network got, I think it was Chicago Tribune (but not certain), was that BTN covered the Urban Meyer hiring press conference wire-to-wire, but not the Penn State/Louis Freeh press conference Thursday.
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I know this isn't the point, but I didn't want to see all of the Penn State thing. I've had enough from ESPN and I'm sick of it (no way I could ever be an attorney or cop and have to deal with this stuff all the time).

I'd rather watch the press conference for Meyer (or any new coach) than Sandusky/Paterno related stuff.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;2178236; said:
The Tribune fails to realize that the hiring of Meyer dealt with sports directly, whereas the Freeh press conference dealt with an investigation into administrative cover-up of child molestations and did not deal with sports.
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I can't say I agree. This is the type of arguement PSU fans are/were using for not having sanctions against the Football team.

Yes, it involved the administration and Spanier had the ultimate authority. But this involved a football assistant coach committing the acts, in the football building or taking kids to football bowl games, being witnessed by a football assistant coach, a cover-up involving the football head coach, and sanctions which resulted in the loss of football scholarships, vacating football wins, a statue of the football head coach being removed, allowing for the free transfer of football players and the teardown of the shower facility in that football building.

This should have been covered better in my opinion.
 
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OSU_D/;2186005; said:
I can't say I agree. This is the type of arguement PSU fans are/were using for not having sanctions against the Football team.
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The annoucement of the investigation itself wasn't sports-related, although the investigation dealt with individuals in the athletic department.
 
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Good SI story (kind of the recent history of college football and TV):

How television changed college football -- and how it will again

They had taken their fight for liberation all the way to the Supreme Court and won. So why, less than five months after the nation's highest court had ruled in NCAA vs. the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents that the NCAA's restrictive football television package violated federal antitrust laws, did almost everyone in the college football business feel they had lost? Consider the following paragraph from an Oct. 15, 1984 Sports Illustrated story on a dip in college football ratings despite a spike in college football telecasts.
"The glut is pernicious, not propitious. Unless the CFA and Big Ten and Pac-10 kiss and make up and legally curtail the number of games on TV -- a dubious prospect, considering the Supreme Court ruling and the bitterness between them -- the colleges will be left with a depressed marketplace," wrote William Taaffe in a piece that bore the headline Too Much Of A Good Thing. "There will be no money to prop up non-revenue sports such as swimming and wrestling. The big network paydays will be over, assuming the networks remain in college football at all. As Nebraska athletic director Bob Devaney says, 'I don't see any great resurgence in the next year or so. I'm not predicting colleges will go broke -- but it isn't going to be the bonanza it was.'"
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Twenty-eight years later, viewers and television networks have proven every prediction in that passage laughably wrong.
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Money and technology remain the wild cards. The NFL rakes in such huge sums because it is a single seller. It is the only entity selling elite professional football. There are five sellers (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, SEC) of elite college football. That holds prices down somewhat. Will those leagues someday merge and sell their media rights as a single entity for an even more astronomical sum? They did it as the BCS for postseason games, and they'll do it again with the playoff. If they ever chose to pool regular-season rights, they'd be the CFA all over again. The Pac-12's Scott sees significant barriers to that, but with college sports still undervalued relative to their earning potential, anything is possible. "It would be no small undertaking," Scott said. "But I've said for some time that I do see -- over time -- you'll see further consolidation of conferences or more consolidation for how rights are sold. As there is more sophistication in the college space, you realize that value for schools is left on the table because of fragmentation. I think markets tend to correct."
Of course, one or two key technological advances could blow up the existing market and create an entirely new one. That's why networks and leagues have signed such long-term deals recently. They want to protect the universe they've created in case outside factors shift the paradigm again. "The only thing that is holding the [television distribution] industry -- in my opinion -- is live sports," Bevilacqua said. "Once that HD stream becomes so good that it comes into your 60-inch, Internet-enabled Apple television, then you're in a whole new world."

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/andy_staples/08/05/tv-college-football/index.html#ixzz22qdozIeM
 
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