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Message: [QUOTE="btstimpy, post: 1034372, member: 2673"] NBC won't be doing it for live games, NO. All of the ND home football games will be shown on NBC. What I'm talking about are mid-week replays of some games and reairing of classic games like FSU vs ND in 1993. NBC has a large vault with an inventory of past Notre Dame games going back to 1991 or whenever they contracted for ND. ND football doesn't have a Conference Channel to show them on, so ESPN is proposing showing old classic ND games by licensing them from NBC on an ACC Channel. I also think CBS probably has some of those classic Miami at ND games in 1988 (Catholics vs Convicts). There are probably some Pitt ND games with Dan Marino. A ND fan would have to tell us what memorable games they have played over the years. ESPN has already gotten pricing from NBC Sports on what it would cost to show it on an ACC Channel. It's already being built in the cost models for a Channel. It's the same for Hockey. The ACC channel might want to show a classic ND-BC hockey game if there is one. But the live games will first air on NBC. The ACC Channel will have to pay NBC to show this stuff who will pay ND, but if it helps get carriage it would be worth it as long as it's not absorbitantly expensive. From what I'm told it is workable. Then you can take that NBC footage and have Joe Montana or Lou Holtz being interviewed while watching those games and telling the audience what they were feeling at the time. There is a lot of creative stuff that can be done. Notre Dame doesn't have to be a full member to do this. Outside of that the ESPN games, which will be 30 over the next 12 years could be shown live on the channel. But they will only do that probably for some lower interest ones. They can do the same as above for ones they first air on ABC or ESPN. [/QUOTE]

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