UConn women's TV likely to change next year...

[CTyankee]

According to a blog post on SNY... LINK

I just hope the games will continue to be shown on SNY and not put into a pay-for-view like ESPN3... I am very fearful of that happening...

Excerpt from the blog...

"The women’s deal is a bit trickier. The women’s basketball rights are now held by ESPN, which controls the entire conferences athletics now. The league will have up to 60 games aired on a family of network next year, and where does SNY get its inventory? The school and SNY have a contract that pays about $1.1 million over 4 years signed last spring. The women’s program delivered big ratings in Connecticut. How many games does SNY get for UConn women, how many does ESPN get?

These are things that have to be worked out. UConn women are such a unique property and is different than the other teams in the conference. All of the parties involved understand that dynamic.

“We know there is great and unique interest in the UConn women’s basketball package on SNY,” commissioner Mike Aresco said. “We will be working hard to give UConn fans the same access to their women’s games as we move forward.”"

 

[CONNFAN23]

Whatever games the Espn network doesn't pick up whether on Espn, Espn2, or EspnU will be shown on SNY I guarantee. Even this year games streaming on Espn 3 were broadcast on SNY,

 

[EricLA]

i'm just glad i have SNY HD on attuverse. that way i can see all the games they play and my dad won't have to tape them and send them to me.

 

[CTyankee]

Whatever games the Espn network doesn't pick up whether on Espn, Espn2, or EspnU will be shown on SNY I guarantee. Even this year games streaming on Espn 3 were broadcast on SNY,

We have been spoiled since 1995 having all of our games available to us on TV... I for one would be pretty upset if any of these games disappeared off the air. The new league will contain new teams... We lose 6 teams who qualified for the NCAAs. We gain only 2... ESPN has guaranteed 60 women's games to be televised "on a family of network", whatever that means.

If my math is somewhat good that means out of more than 350 women's games which will be played in the new league over 5 months, less than 20%, or 3 games a week, will be televised on the ESPN family.

UConn will be lucky to have more than 6 games televised through ESPN. Broadcasting 6 of our games would mean about 30 games available for SNY. I just hope the ratings on SNY will continue to be good. We lose St Johns, Rutgers, Seton Hall, all from the NYC area... Plus Providence and Syracuse adjacent to us... The Connecticut audience will watch UConn, but will the rest of the SNY audience?

 

[CONNFAN23]

Well SNY has a contract to broadcast at the very minimum 17 games each year for the next 3 years. I am sure they will do more than the minimum and pick up whatever the ESPN family doesn't.

 

[CTBballfan243]

If I had to go out on limb, I would guess ESPN will broadcast the majority of UCONN's non-conference games. The non conference games should be the fairly competitive. ESPN will probably sell the conference games to SNY, because the conference games are going to be dreadfully boring 30 point blowouts.

 

[UConnCat]

If I had to go out on limb, I would guess ESPN will broadcast the majority of UCONN's non-conference games. The non conference games should be the fairly competitive. ESPN will probably sell the conference games to SNY, because the conference games are going to be dreadfully boring 30 point blowouts.

That's not exactly going out on a limb. ESPN televised only 2 regular season conference games this year: at ND on ESPN2 and home against DePaul on ESPNU. All of the other games on ESPN were non-conference games. Manuel said that ESPN wants to broadcast more of the women's games next year. Louisville will still be part of the conference so that's one conference game ESPN may pick up. UConn will be playing a very good non-conference schedule so there will be some good games for ESPN to choose from. Sounds like business as usual.