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Texas Longhorns (big hat, no cattle; please don’t Horns Down us)

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From Chris Level's twitter - Texas Tech rivals site guy

these are part of the way down the page

Talked to a higher up at Suddenlink here in West Texas about the LHN. No deal yet and ESPN not being very reasonable with their demands.
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A source at Suddenlink told me, "with ESPN being the ones negotiating for Longhorn Network, they're being about as reasonable as NFL was."
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Among other things, ESPN also discussed putting together a home/home w/ a BCS level school if #TexasTech agreed to play UT on their network.
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The four to five million dollar payout that was being discussed was going to be paid out over time if #TexasTech had agreed to it.
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@gkketch ESPN indicated to TT that they might not televise the UT/TT game unless it was on LHN (longhorn network).
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Can't say i'm all that surprised... however the local radio guys (gkketch being one of them and orangeblood owner) where saying "we can't get an honest opinion here in Texas, but i wonder what the national perception of this is... does this hurt Texas, etc" I was laughing my ass off...
 
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No HS games will be allowed on TLN (or BTN, for that matter). So the games for Texas high profile recruits will end up on ESPN2/3/H/Whatever.

CBS

High school games cannot be on school networks

The NCAA is not allowing the televising of high school games on school or conference networks, the association ruled on Thursday.

For the moment, that seems to relieve some of the pressure created by the Longhorn Network's intention to televise such games. That was considered a main reason why Texas A&M is reportedly looking to move to the SEC.

The ruling has to be considered a blow to the Longhorn Network which forged a partnership with ESPN, based in some small part on the belief that Texas would be able to telecast high school games. An Aug. 22 NCAA summit had been scheduled to discuss the issue. The summit remains scheduled, NCAA president Mark Emmert said.

Emmert added that NCAA staff had made the interpretation and board of directors had approved it. Texas A&M had lobbied the NCAA hard for such an interpretation. It's unclear whether this changes A&M's reported intentions.

TLN and ESPN officials said previously they would be comfortable with whatever the NCAA decided. But clearly ESPN/TLN had ambitious plans. TLN chief Dave Brown said in June that the network had planned to televise up to 18 games per season. He also said there were plans to fly to different states to televise the games of players who had committed to Texas.

This does not affect the televising of high school games on networks not affiliated with a conference or school.

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Anyone could have figured out that the NCAA wasn't going to let the high school games thing fly.

Of course ESPN can show texas recruits games on their other networks..but you have to question how much time they would really want to devote one of their networks to showing high school games (They already do this from time to time, but it's not an immensely regular thing). The draw of showing them on the Longhorn network is that the network is designed to produce material that interests the Texas fan base.
 
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Here are some highlights of the deal:

- ESPN has exclusive negotiating rights with Texas should the school no longer be a member of the Big 12. "In the event that UT determines not to participate in any athletics conference in one or more sports, UT agrees to provide ESPN a right of first negotiation of 60 days with respect to its television telecast rights.." ESPN also has 48 hours to match any offer Texas may get from somewhere else.

In other words, if the Big 12 does dissolve, Texas can still have its own network as an independent. It's also possible that Texas can just go independent in football and remain in the Big 12 for other sports.

- Texas will get about $11,000,000 a year from the network. And that number will increase by 3% annually until ESPN gets its money back from the original investment, at which point Texas' revenues from the network will rise significantly.

- If the Big 12 created its own network, Texas couldn't be a part of it. "Neither IMG nor UT will during the Term and within the Territory i. participate in or permit the development of another "Longhorns Network" or similar network enterprise (regardless of name) related to UT" The terms of the deal are for 20 years, and the territory referred to his Texas. So if the Big 12 wants its own network and would want to feature Texas games, it's going to have to wait until 2031 to do so.

- ESPN will try to get rights to Texas high school state championship games. Obviously, this is part of the high school games deal that the Big 12 has decided to ignore for a year, but the contract states that ESPN agrees to try and get the rights for these games. Whether it will ever be allowed by the NCAA remains to be seen, but it's obvious that the Longhorn Network would love to televise these games.

Now, if you go over the contract in its entirety, a lot of what Texas wants to do makes sense. These are good business decisions for the school, and Texas has always been a school that knows how to get money out of its athletic department. Still, when going over the deal and looking at it from the perspective of another Big 12 school, it's easy to see why schools like Texas A&M aren't exactly thrilled with it.

It's essentially a lot of words and numbers that can be paraphrased with "We're Texas, and we're more important than the rest of you."
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I get more confused every day. The players are amateurs - even though the teams are owned by television networks and shoe companies?
 
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I will be watching with glee for three things:

1. Saturday's SEC votes to see if they give A&M an invite. I am praying that this goes through.

2. That Tuesday's Texas House of Reps meeting goes well enough for the Aggies to jump ship.

3. The incoming whining from A&M fans that they're getting screwed by the refs when they lose to Texas 6 - 3.
 
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Network difficulties at the Longhorn Network

As launch date nears, Longhorn Network is still looking for carrier

If a television network launches and no one can watch it, does it make a sound?

That's the philosophical question of the day. The Longhorn Network is scheduled to launch in less than two weeks, and not a single cable, satellite or telecom carrier in the state has signed on.

Can LHN launch as scheduled on Aug. 26 if no one can watch it?
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LightningRod;1968914; said:
Network difficulties at the Longhorn Network



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I freaking hope this happens... I live in Austin... i'm gonna be pissed if TWC forces this shitty ass network on me and then tries to raise my rates.... while asking me to pay $7 a month MORE for the BTN... yea i'm a cheap mofo but I already give TWC enough.
 
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