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Drew

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Does anyone know the parameters of the new TV deal? I believe it goes into effect this season for football, correct? I believe part of the deal was a certain number of games on ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU and not ESPNNEWS and ESPN3. If this is true I would believe our Boise/UCF/Cincy/SMU games would all be on those networks for sure
 
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I believe it's 90% of games on non internet broadcast channels.
 

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I would imagine being one of the more notable brands in the AAC most of our games would at least be featured on ESPNU at worst.

The biggest issue I have with the new tv deal is the CBS Sports Network games. No exposure on there and it seems like those games would've been the ones on SNY.
 

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I would imagine being one of the more notable brands in the AAC most of our games would at least be featured on ESPNU at worst.

The biggest issue I have with the new tv deal is the CBS Sports Network games. No exposure on there and it seems like those games would've been the ones on SNY.
Cbs sports network is available in roughly 100,000,000 homes. It's not like they're showing them at your local drive in movies
 

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well, I guess I am going to have to buy up... I missed a few basketball games this year that were on the CBS sports channel. Is not not he Uverse plan I have.

Army, I'll be there for that one!
 

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Cbs sports network is available in roughly 100,000,000 homes. It's not like they're showing them at your local drive in movies

It's certainly available to a lot of people, but my understanding is the Fox Sports 1 also was available to a lot of people ( could be wrong on that) and just nobody watched the channel.

As others have said, it's better than ESPN3, but in my opinion, I'd rather watch it on SNY and wish we could've maintained a bigger presence on that channel for our northeast, specifically NYC connection.
 

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For out of area folks...CBSSN is a much better option than SNY. In Atlanta...Comcast doesn't carry SNY so the games were on Gameplan....which had horrendous picture and audio quality.

CBSSN is HD and easy to find on the channel lineup. I have a standard lineup of channels I check on Saturdays for games and CBSSN is one of them. It has a good location next to ESPN News and BTN.

Now Foxsports 2 on the other hand I haven't found yet in my channel lineup. and FS1 is not near anything and often forgotten.

Bottom line...I think the move from SNY is a good one.
 
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They may actually do a decent job promoting this game. If we are winning games it will get exposure.
 

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Isn't the Army game on CBSSN because of Army's TV deal?
 
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I am so happy to be getting away from SNY! I have been a Dish Network customer for years and for the last two years, perhaps longer ,Dish dropped SNY over rights fees. I do have CBSSports in both SD and HD. I have no issue with them or their coverage so the more ways I can watch the better.
 

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CBSSN is not available in HD on Cox. One of their shortcomings . . .
I agree on this as I can't stand watching the games on the non-HD CBSSN channel on Cox. I'm hoping that Cox picks up the HD aspect of this channel for the upcoming season. Now that UConn is on it, there's no reason it shouldn't be in their package.
 

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Did we ever confirm if ESPN News is part of the tv deal?

ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU with the majority ofgames on the U would be fine given the conference. However if ESPN News is in that bundle I feel a lot worse about it.

Wonder why we just can't get a straight answer?
 
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