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tOSU TV Viewing/ESPN GamePlan?

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buckeyeboy;631238; said:
I'm not saying that the Big 10 is blameless here. I'm simply saying that ESPN is certainly blameworthy, and if people call their cable companies and tell them to add ESPNU, ESPN's goal is served. What's worse, these people might not realize that (1) their cable bills will eventually go up, and six months from now people will realize that they're paying several dollars more a month for a channel that they haven't tuned in to except for 3 hours way back on October 21, and (2) if ESPN succeeds here, they and other cable companies will likely pull the same garbage in the future.
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Whether you get ESPNU or not, your cable bill will go up anyway. They're cable, that's what they do. Some of us WANT ESPN to succeed. It's a dirty trick they're playing now, but that channel does show a lot of small school football, college basketball and other college sports I think I should get that and NFL Network, and not have to pay a premium. I already spend a ton of money with them anyway. TW wants to put a premium on this stuff, saying they're just passing the cost of it on to only the people that use it rather than all customers. If that were really their intention, then surely they wouldn't have a problem with reimbusring me for all of the Oxygen and MTV that I haven't been watching and never will watch, right?
 
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Dispatch

'No opportunity' to carry OSU-Indiana game, local TV station says
BuckeyeXtra.com
Thursday, October 12, 2006

Ohio State football fans hoping to get local relief from television stations in central Ohio for the broadcast of the Buckeyes' game against Indiana likely will have to search elsewhere for solutions.
The university said Tuesday that the Oct. 21 game will be televised by ESPNU, which is not readily available on all cable systems. That announcement prompted numerous calls to WBNS-TV (Channel 10), which responded with a statement on its Web site.
"WBNS-10TV will not have any opportunity to broadcast this game," the statment reads. " ... the Big 10's rights are exclusive to ESPN-U and there is no opportunity to carry the game on WBNS-TV, our digital channels, ONN, or any other venue. Our commitment to the Buckeyes and their fans is a strong one. If there was any opportunity to carry this game, we absolutely would."
Channel 10 typically televises OSU games carried by ESPN Plus, as was the case last week when the Buckeyes faced Bowling Green. But because ESPNU has exclusive rights to the Ohio State-Indiana game, WBNS will not be permitted to televise that matchup.
The statement goes on to say that "this is a matter that is completely out of our hands."
 
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buckeyeboy said:
I don't know why many people seem to be imploring their cable services to make a deal with ESPN to add ESPNU to the lineup. That seems to be exactly what ESPN wants to do with its thinly-veiled scheme. What people should be doing, IMO, is emailing ESPN and saying that they are disgusted by the channel's antics and that they'll never ask their cable companies to carry ESPNU as a result of this pathetic move on the network's part.
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I've been trying to get TW to offer ESPNU for awhile now, and it had nothing to do with OSU. There's plenty of good programming on that channel if you're a college sports fan.

10tv says that the Hall of Fame Cafe will carry the game, so will BW-3. Damon's will not, as of now.

Columbus bars are going to be packed.
 
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buckeyeboy;631227; said:
I don't know why many people seem to be imploring their cable services to make a deal with ESPN to add ESPNU to the lineup. That seems to be exactly what ESPN wants to do with its thinly-veiled scheme. What people should be doing, IMO, is emailing ESPN and saying that they are disgusted by the channel's antics and that they'll never ask their cable companies to carry ESPNU as a result of this pathetic move on the network's part.
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Yeah! God knows I don't want anymore all-college sports channels, I'm sick of those! :roll1:
 
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In reading responses here and elsewhere to this overall problem, it is becomming apparent to me that the real villain in the piece is the Big 10. If I understand correctly, next year the Big 10 is going to handle all its games via a Big Ten Network. For those of you back in Big 10 country, this may not be a problem.

But, for those many hundreds of miles away, it presents potentially huge problems. First of all, there are "cable" areas of the country that barely recognize the existence of a Big Ten at all. That is certainly true of the Cox Cable system in the Southwest where I live. Cox threatened to cancel ESPN earlier this year because of the significant cost involved in purchasing it for the cable system. I do not expect them to buy ESPNU and even more so any Big Ten Channel offerings because they perceive their market to be primarily folks from CA, AZ, and the left coast generally. That is surely true where I live, which is Vegas.

The perception is that the Big Ten Network offerings will not be part of ESPN Gameplan beginning next year. If that is correct, the options available to us left coasters to watch the Buckeyes drop to near zero, unless we have access to dish or other networks. I for one, don't. So, if accurate, those of us west of the Rockies face a dismal viewing future for the Bucks and other B10 teams next year. Time will tell.
 
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daddyphatsacs;631673; said:
I haven't heard that.
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Nothing on ABC6's website either. I'm sure if they were attempting to make some sort of deal they'd have that plastered on their webpage.

The only thing on any of the WBNS affiliates (CBS-10TV, 610 WTVN, Dispatch) is the following story grad put in this thread this morning (post #48).
 
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RLC65;631559; said:
The perception is that the Big Ten Network offerings will not be part of ESPN Gameplan beginning next year. If that is correct, the options available to us left coasters to watch the Buckeyes drop to near zero, unless we have access to dish or other networks. I for one, don't. So, if accurate, those of us west of the Rockies face a dismal viewing future for the Bucks and other B10 teams next year. Time will tell.
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Well, Jefferson-Pilot Sports and Raycom Sports covers ACC games and is shown on GamePlan...you'd figure that it would behoove the Big Ten Network to also avail itself to GamePlan to reach its huge fan base nation-wide. Hopefully they do so...
 
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buckeyeboy;631632; said:
I'm not real interested in the Norfolk St. vs. Hampton football game this weekend. But I guess that's just me.
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Entertaining games that ESPNU has already broadcast this season:

Northwestern at Miami, OH
Akron at NC State
Youngstown State at Penn State
Cincinnati at Virginia Tech
Purdue at Iowa
Maryland at Georgia Tech

A good game that will be on ESPNU this weekend:

Cincinnati at Louisville

There were several marquee men's bball games on ESPNU last season, and they also carried under-the-radar goodies like Ohio State baseball games over the summer. Where else are you going to see that?

But ... whatever! I'm sure you're much happier with the current choices of World Series of Poker reruns on ESPN and bass fishing on ESPN2. :roll1:
 
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Dryden;631832; said:
...and they also carried under-the-radar goodies like Ohio State baseball games over the summer. Where else are you going to see that?
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They also had the replays of the '06 Spring Game...

EDIT: That was CSTV, not ESPNU, but CSTV was part of the package that had ESPNU, so my ordering the package to get ESPNU ended up paying extra dividends...
 
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Response from the Big 10 website to my email request on the game coverage:

Thanks for the inquiry about the televising of Big Ten football games.
Here is a little background on television and Big Ten football.
Currently, the Big Ten Conference is in the last year of its current
10-year ABC and ESPN agreement. During this time, Big Ten home football
games have appeared exclusively on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, in regional and
local syndication on ESPN Regional Television, and more recently, on
platforms with limited distribution such as ESPNU and ESPN360. The
last decade has seen a significant increase in the number of Big Ten
football television games from 40 to 71. Within this total we have seen
a modest increase in the number of games ESPN has distributed on its
emerging (limited distribution) platforms from five during the 2004
season, six in 2005 to eight so far during the 2006 season. ESPN is
well within its contractual rights to schedule Big Ten games on these
limited distribution platforms.

One of the reasons the Conference is establishing its own Network was to
avoid building other companies new platforms. It was our view as well
that the future of syndication was not as promising as it historically
had been, and games that once had been distributed locally or regionally
on over-the-air stations would continue migrating to limited
distribution systems.

Not every football game can appear on ABC or ESPN, even one with a
highly-ranked team. The Conference this year will have a robust package
of home football games (34-39 of 75 games) distributed on one of three
platforms (ABC, ESPN, or ESPN2). All other games can and will be used
by ESPN in syndication or on other platforms.

Next year, the Big Ten Network, will have 35 football games, 105 men's
basketball and 55 women's basketball games. This will be the
destination platform for Big Ten fans, and we hope you're looking
forward to it as much as we are.

Thanks again for the inquiry and for your support of Big Ten athletics.

Mike McComiskey
Assistant Commissioner
Big Ten Conference
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Well, Jefferson-Pilot Sports and Raycom Sports covers ACC games and is shown on GamePlan...you'd figure that it would behoove the Big Ten Network to also avail itself to GamePlan to reach its huge fan base nation-wide. Hopefully they do so...
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I think the difference is that JP and Raycom are syndicated programs picked up networks and the Big Ten Network is its own channel
 
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