Is the Big Ten an option?

[upstater]

Find those break downs.

The basic and expanded basic tiers vary per carrier and state law. Not all have the same option of services. It's not a requirement to be on the near free 'Basic' $12 news package some carriers are required to have. It's on the tier above that.

I've seen plenty confirming that once Comcast set the rate all providers pay the same if they have a Big 10 team. It's either/or and not micro-regional.

It's regional. This is a well-known issue on the PSU boards. WPa pays up, and EPa doesn't.

 

[RS9999X]

It's regional. This is a well-known issue on the PSU boards. WPa pays up, and EPa doesn't.

Wasn't that the reason for the 70 cent deal instead of the 1.10 proposed. They cost averaged it.

Dish and DirecTV pay the .10 and that's available to the areas Armstrong and Blue Ridge refuse to run the BTN. Philly Comcast put it on the Digital Tier only which upset a few at first but they pay the regular fee.

Everything I run across says the same thing: the weirdness is in the non-covered areas where Satellite users get it for the 10 cent but the BTN beats ups cable for the .70 and its never available in a premium Sports package just the various Basic packages. The biggest offender Blue Ridge is Eastern Penn along the border . They pay nothing and get nothing.

 

[upstater]

Wasn't that the reason for the 70 cent deal instead of the 1.10 proposed. They cost averaged it.

Dish and DirecTV pay the .10 and that's available to the areas Armstrong and Blue Ridge refuse to run the BTN. Philly Comcast put it on the Digital Tier only which upset a few at first but they pay the regular fee.

Everything I run across says the same thing: the weirdness is in the non-covered areas where Satellite users get it for the 10 cent but the BTN beats ups cable for the .70 and its never available in a premium Sports package just the various Basic packages. The biggest offender Blue Ridge is Eastern Penn along the border . They pay nothing and get nothing.

Unless the charges changed in the last few months, I know that as of last spring it was .25 in EPa and $1 in WPa. Which is quite odd since most of the fanbase is in the east.

 

[Nostical]

You get it Hoophound. And Upstater, I don't agree that eastern eyeballs won't pay to watch Ohio St v UConn or Michigan v Rutgers. You should see what I pay for now!

 

[upstater]

You get it Hoophound. And Upstater, I don't agree that eastern eyeballs won't pay to watch Ohio St v UConn or Michigan v Rutgers. You should see what I pay for now!

Well, then, they must prefer that to Penn St playing those midwest teams.

 

[husky10]

With that article out of the Globe it sounds like we won't ever get into the ACC as long as BCU is there so I pray the B1G is an option

 

[IthacaMatt]

it is fantasy at this point. but if you think about it logically, if the BigTen thought UConn and Rutgers could effectively add NYC as a market they could make money by adding us. the only way we'll ever be able to increase a conference's incremental revenue, which is basically what's required for a conference to add us, is if we can deliver the fabled NYC TV market. academically we fit in fine with the BigTen, and we'll continue to improve. apparently we're on our way to AAU membership, which evidently is important to them. i think it's possible that the BigTen would want to make that move in a few years.

i think it's more likely they'd want us than the ACC would. i don't think the ACC will ever want to add us because adding us will threaten the current leadership of the conference by making it a largely northern league. all we can do is go out and win football games and hope we look attractive next round. it's really depressing that there's basically no chat at all about the West Virginia game on the regular board. this dance is starting to get really annoying and my feet hurt.

I've got to think that if the Big 10 thought that UConn and Rutgers would carry the NYC market, it would have been done already. I think that marketing study they did a couple years ago under Delaney showed the opposite - that none of UConn, Rutgers or Syracuse carries the NYC market, but rather the top 2 teams in terms of popularity of ratings were / are Penn State and Notre Dame. Swofford hurt the Big 10 badly by taking Pitt. Not so much Syracuse; that was targeted more at destroying the Big East so that ESPN only would have to pay big bucks for one east coast contract, not two.

 

[upstater]

I've got to think that if the Big 10 thought that UConn and Rutgers would carry the NYC market, it would have been done already. I think that marketing study they did a couple years ago under Delaney showed the opposite - that none of UConn, Rutgers or Syracuse carries the NYC market, but rather the top 2 teams in terms of popularity of ratings were / are Penn State and Notre Dame. Swofford hurt the Big 10 badly by taking Pitt. Not so much Syracuse; that was targeted more at destroying the Big East so that ESPN only would have to pay big bucks for one east coast contract, not two.

Meh. What's to prevent Delaney from taking Maryland and Pitt?

 

[husky10]

Swofford hurt the Big 10 badly by taking Pitt.

No he didn't Penn State owns all on Pennsylvania what does Pitt add to the B1G?

 

[The Funster]

I'd love to see us in the B1G. We raise the level of men's and women's hoops as well as other key sports. UConn and Rutgers do give them a footprint in the NE/NY area, a footprint that would be enhanced by the possible inclusion of ND.

I think the B1G and UConn is more of a possibility than most.

 

[husky10]

I'd love to see us in the B1G. We raise the level of men's and women's hoops as well as other key sports. UConn and Rutgers do give them a footprint in the NE/NY area, a footprint that would be enhanced by the possible inclusion of ND.

I think the B1G and UConn is more of a possibility than most.

I would love to see that too I just think don't think at this point the B1G is not going to add a program that could grow into a strong program when they don't have to and could possibly add established programs (mizzou). Something that can help us is to market more in the NYC market agree to a long term deal with rutgers having both us play a couple of home games in NYC (yankees stadium or Metlife stadium) maybe or more basketball games in MSG.

Im just spitting out some ideas but I do believe that NYC has to be our way into the B1G.

 

[FDNY99]

I would love to see that too I just think don't think at this point the B1G is not going to add a program that could grow into a strong program when they don't have to and could possibly add established programs (mizzou). Something that can help us is to market more in the NYC market agree to a long term deal with rutgers having both us play a couple of home games in NYC (yankees stadium or Metlife stadium) maybe or more basketball games in
Im just spitting out some ideas but I do believe that NYC has to be our way into the B1G.

Husky10 I REALLY like your idea about ways to better market UConn in the NYC market!