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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 3150024, member: 1131"] As I said in my previous post in this thread, it is very much TBD whether SNY will continue to have a role in this new world, and I would say that the odds are that it will. There is a lot of revenue to be obtained from advertisers such as Bob's Furniture and People's Bank -- probably more than enough to allow SNY to recover production costs at the current level of quality plus broadcast rights from ESPN. That revenue would not be available to ESPN in an online-only delivery format. So it would seem to be in the interest of all parties to harvest this revenue by allowing broadcasts to occur. It is just a matter of negotiating who gets how much of the pie. Don't forget that SNY currently pays UConn a substantial amount for broadcast and online rights to the games. In the new world, SNY would be paying ESPN as the content owner instead of UConn, and only for broadcast rights. They will probably have to pay more, but most likely it will still be quite profitable for them to make such a deal. [/QUOTE]