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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 5038126, member: 1131"] Who is going to pay for announcers, camera crews, and their travel for every single Big East Conference game? Is NBC, Fox, or TNT going to consider it cost-effective to pay these expenses for every game, including UConn - Seton Hall, not to mention Seton Hall - Xavier? It's hard for me to see how the streaming revenue from games like this will cover the cost of production, even if the networks assume that some small number of fans will subscribe to their streaming services only because these games are available. I think it is more likely that these national networks will have a first right of refusal on all Big East Conference games, and that if they are not interested in some of the games (because they cannot recover production costs), then hopefully those games will become available to others who can make a profit from advertising in local markets (either regular TV broadcast or streaming). If the national networks get to cherry-pick the games that they want to broadcast or stream, but prevent other potential broadcasters from picking up the games that they leave by the wayside, then I don't think all games will be streamed -- although it is more likely that all UConn games will be available. [/QUOTE]