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Message: [QUOTE="ucmiami2, post: 5123853, member: 13062"] I have been wondering if someone at CPTV would put together a retrospective on the first 25 years. There is no question that the idea of producing and broadcasting a full season of WOMEN's Basketball was a revolutionary concept,. And paying Uconn a licensing fee for the broadcast rights to those games! And actually making money on the concept with the half time donation drive! It took the buzz of 1995 to kick start ESPN and a few other national networks to think about cherry picking a few marquee match-ups in season. And the only reason we saw any women's tournament games was because was the NCAA made the FF game broadcasts a contingency of bidding on the men's March Madness rights. It took ten years for anyone else even to considered producing broadcast product for a full season of women's college basketball for a single school, and a few more years for a networks to start demanding that women's basketball be included in their TV rights packages for conference broadcast rights. And for CPTV to get into a bidding war with a commercial station in 2012! And for Uconn to be able to actual have coverage/broadcasting demands written into that contract! Even today with BTN and Longhorn Network, and Pac12 Network, etc - few schools actually have the slate of home and away games broadcast by a single 'station'. [/QUOTE]