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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 5059183, member: 199"] Just a little history: CPTV was the first to identify and exploit a women's sport team broadcast opportunity - ahead of their time and for quite a while a stand alone in the world of sports programming. ESPN came along and cherry picked a selection of 'big ticket' games' CBS, TNT, Fox, and conference owned stations jumped in as well. SNY was the first for profit station to bid and win a women's sports team broadcast deal, knocking CPTV off. SNY was pretty well screwed when the old BE imploded and the new American sold a broadcast package that included women's basketball - SNY had to negotiate a deal with ESPN to be allowed to produce the Uconn games they were already contracted to Uconn for. Somewhere along the line around the time of the creation of the AAC, the new conference TV contracts for the big conferences started to include women's basketball along with the traditional football and MCBB. SNY fought the good fight for a while but it just got too complex and expensive I think. This all started because of Uconn and CPTV proving that there was money in those national flag blue women bounce that ball. The issue is now whether Fox/NBC/NBC will actually spend the money to produce all the Uconn games that they own the rights to. I do not believe any of the other big conference deals have ever produced every WCBB game for every team in conference. [/QUOTE]