Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2439803, member: 199"] ESPN owns the rights to all AAC WCBB games so they have already paid for the rights to them. The AAC has no say in which games they choose to telecast. But ... ESPN is bleeding money and cutting jobs like crazy so I doubt they are in the market to purchase any more 'franchises' in WCBB including tournament rights. ESPN made a side agreement with SNY to allow them to continue broadcasting Uconn WCBB, and in return SNY gives them the streaming package for all of the SNY broadcasts. ESPN has made similar deals with the SEC and other P5 conferences, but those conferences do not have separate networks that broadcast all available WCBB games so the ESPN streaming is much spottier. The actual issue here is that SC, ND, Stanford, Baylor, etc have NOT worked hard enough to package and market their WCBB games in a way that a local or regional network wants to invest in broadcasting all their games. Until they do, Uconn will be unique. ESPN would not have spent the money to broadcast the Uconn/MSU game and certainly not the next game in NV or any of the other 20+ games that SNY will broadcast. But they will be happy to add them to their streaming service because it costs them basically nothing. AND yes! CPTV proved that there actually was money to be made by making the investment to broadcast a season of WCBB. SNY jumped in AFTER CPTV had proved the value of the product. All Uconn fans should say a special thanks to CPTV and their vision. [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach