To those who can't wait to jump to Fox or NBC or Lifetime.

[HartbeatHusky]

NBC, being the most stupid, backward, incompetent network out there, is very likely to botch all of this completely.

Being on NBC is like a death sentence.

You guys sure do have a flair for the dramatic. NBC equals the quick speedy end for the Big East and UConn if we are part of a new TV contract with them. OK, sure. If you say so.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Mark Lazarus. Mark the name down.

NBC says it will change the name of its little-watched cable channel Versus to NBC Sports Network in an attempt lure viewers away from one of TV’s most profitable destinations.
The new channel, which debuts Jan. 2, will offer a full slate live sports, rebroadcasts of games from other NBC networks and a nightly news and talk program.
"We are not going to replicate what others are doing," NBC Sports chairman Mark Lazarus tells The Post "We would do it potentially in our own voice. But pure "SportsCenter" ripoff or redo is not who we want to be."
Lazarus says his fledgling network intends to actively pursue the rights to Big East Conference sports – the backbone of ESPN programming in its early years.
"We are very interested in talking to the Big East," he says. "It is preeminent college basketball — among the top divisions in the sport."
NBC Sports Network want to step in if the Big East is feeling lost in ESPN’s big schedule.
"We think we can provide an outlet for some of those people who may not have been as shining a star as they once were," he says.


Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/backpage/nbc_new_sports_channel_going_after_mq4uQb6vIkOh1CZTopZLSP#ixzz1jGaKw7dc


That came out in the New York Press on August 2. Match that date up with teh exits of Pitt and Syracuse to the ACC, abruptly, and motivated by ESPN, according to Eugene DeFillippo - BC athletic director.

The big east has been a pawn for the networks, because they've allowed themselves to be, by giving networks pieces to play with in football programs.

It had to stop or the league would go away for ever, I believe they finally get it over there in the Providence offices.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Mark Lazarus. Mark the name down.

NBC says it will change the name of its little-watched cable channel Versus to NBC Sports Network in an attempt lure viewers away from one of TV’s most profitable destinations.
The new channel, which debuts Jan. 2, will offer a full slate live sports, rebroadcasts of games from other NBC networks and a nightly news and talk program.
"We are not going to replicate what others are doing," NBC Sports chairman Mark Lazarus tells The Post "We would do it potentially in our own voice. But pure "SportsCenter" ripoff or redo is not who we want to be."
Lazarus says his fledgling network intends to actively pursue the rights to Big East Conference sports – the backbone of ESPN programming in its early years.
"We are very interested in talking to the Big East," he says. "It is preeminent college basketball — among the top divisions in the sport."
NBC Sports Network want to step in if the Big East is feeling lost in ESPN’s big schedule.
"We think we can provide an outlet for some of those people who may not have been as shining a star as they once were," he says.


Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/backpage/nbc_new_sports_channel_going_after_mq4uQb6vIkOh1CZTopZLSP#ixzz1jGaKw7dc


That came out in the New York Press on August 2. Match that date up with teh exits of Pitt and Syracuse to the ACC, abruptly, and motivated by ESPN, according to Eugene DeFillippo - BC athletic director.

The big east has been a pawn for the networks, because they've allowed themselves to be, by giving networks pieces to play with in football programs.

It had to stop or the league would go away for ever, I believe they finally get it over there in the Providence offices.

I don't see a conclusion you're drawing from this? That Pitt and Cuse left b/c they didn't want to be underexposed on NBC? As you see from NBC, and as we can surmise from ESPN, depsite all the yacking that this is all about football, the problem the Big East really has is that it (1) has the most valuable basketball property and (2) the least valuable football property. If the Big East had told ESPN they were splitting the basketball and football rights, ESPN would be overjoyed. The BE would land the best basketball contract ever with ESPN. But ESPN is already saturated with better college football games, and doesn't need or want BE football.

 

[HartbeatHusky]

If the Big East had told ESPN they were splitting the basketball and football rights, ESPN would be overjoyed.

Honestly, I think this is what we are going to see anyway. The contracts are already separate with the new basketball contract taking effect for the 2013-14 season and the football contract not kicking in until the 2014-15 season. I think that NBC will land the entire BE football package and some basketball games while the majority of the basketball package will remain on ESPN.

 

[pepband99]

Quick question. Where do I watch the Kansas State/Baylor game tonight?

Well, unless you have FS Kansas City, FS Southwest, FS Houston or Game Plan... you aren't.

What, exactly, does the B12's HORRID TV contract have to do with anything? You do realize they have the exact opposite of what we have, right?

ESPN*, with CBS as an upgrade.

They have:
Fox crap, with ESPN as an upgrade.

This has much more to do with product, not placement.