That is wild, and I suspect that it is some sort of oversight in the programming department at ESPN. The ESPN3 broadcasts cost them absolutely nothing since SNY is paying for the whole production, and ESPN owns the rights to all AAC sports, so SNY couldn't block them from claiming the broadcasts.
Since ESPN isn't producing the programs, it may be that the ESPN3 schedule hasn't been updated with outside produced content - I often find the ESPN3 future content to be incomplete with programs I know will eventually appear there.
Last year ESPN didn't show any of the UCONN games in their upcoming schedule till around the start of the season and I'd be very surprised if any customer service people know what is actually going to happen. But one would think that if for some inexplicable reason ESPN decided not to stream the games when right now you can go and pick among dozens of collegiate women's volleyball games, that SNY would go back to offering the games streamed for a fee. Hope so anyway, cause otherwise it's going to be a long winter.
UC, your point about SNY Tv content being external was a good one so I ran than angle down also. The SEC network and Longhorn network also provide external content to ESPN3. Right now I can tell you when Texas, Kentucky WCBB games are going to be streamed via ESPN3 but not UCONN SNY tv games. I feel like I am being tortured.
Jeff, you may be underestimating how pathologically (committed) I have been to getting an answer. I did not just stop at customer service. I have been in contact with a few executives at ESPN such as Laura Gentile- Vice President and Founder, espnW and Craig Lazarus, Vice President, Production at ESPN who is from Hartford and a Dukie.
I'm also sure you are incorrect about this time last year and the games being posted later in the season. By end of september of 2014 I was sleeping well because I had A UCONN schedule and knew exactly which games were going to be streamed on ESPN3. The agreement between SNY tv and ESPN was put in place almost 1 year prior Nov 7, 2013 as a result of UCONN being in a new conference. This time last year the only thing I was sweating were 2 or 3 UCONN games that CBS had the broadcast rights to. I ended up having to add CBS sports to my cable because one of the CBS games was the game on Senior Night-I was not going to miss that.
I also wrote to John Altavilla and got this more encouraging response:
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Although I do not know this for certain, I have been given no indication that the schedule games on SNY, usually streamed on ESPN3, will be any different.
When I hear for certain I will try to touch base. But I may forget, so remind me.
My backup plan is to go get Sling box and connect it to my daughters cable- she lives in NJ and gets SNYtv as part of her cable package.
I am not going though a season missing 17 UCONN games live-it is 2015 for goodness sakes!
