BeIn Sports

[The Real SamC]

The Awful Announcing website and Media Life Magazine is reporting that the new CUSA TV deal is with ESPN, CBS Sports Network, Sinclair's American Sports Network... and beIN Sports.

Who? BeIN Sports. Formerly known as Al Jazeera Sports. Belongs to the Qatar royal family. It now carries stuff like Euro and Arabian soccer, rugby, European sports car racing, team handball (WTF is team handball), tennis and Arabian horse racing. This is its first venture into mainstream US based sports.

The channel is only AVAILABLE on 20% of cable systems, and it is almost always in the pay extra sports tier or the "foreign" tier which only about 20% of customers usually buy. I do not see it listed on either Charleston Suddenstink or Huntington Comcast. It is on DirecTV and DISH, but only if you get the very highest packages.

Nielsen estimates it gets 15000 viewers on an average day.

Wow.

 

[andy4theherd]

we would be better off to fire up the old Thundering Herd Network and distribute it via online subscription....

 

[alphasig1053]

What type of content are they possibly going to get if they are left with picking the scraps from the other three networks?

 

[herdit44]

What type of content are they possibly going to get if they are left with picking the scraps from the other three networks?

from what i've read, espn and cbscs will have 5 games each. that leaves a lot of games.

 

[cstolz26]

The Awful Announcing website and Media Life Magazine is reporting that the new CUSA TV deal is with ESPN, CBS Sports Network, Sinclair's American Sports Network... and beIN Sports.

Who? BeIN Sports. Formerly known as Al Jazeera Sports. Belongs to the Qatar royal family. It now carries stuff like Euro and Arabian soccer, rugby, European sports car racing, team handball (WTF is team handball), tennis and Arabian horse racing. This is its first venture into mainstream US based sports.

The channel is only AVAILABLE on 20% of cable systems, and it is almost always in the pay extra sports tier or the "foreign" tier which only about 20% of customers usually buy. I do not see it listed on either Charleston Suddenstink or Huntington Comcast. It is on DirecTV and DISH, but only if you get the very highest packages.

Nielsen estimates it gets 15000 viewers on an average day.

Wow.

If it includes Basketball, it might help recruiting!

 

[Herdpiper]

Team Handball is a great game mostly consisting of a combination of basketball, hockey, and throwing skill. Indoors its played on a hockey sized rink, outdoors on a soccer field. Fast moving, high scoring, rough and tumble play.

That being said, I just hope its a network that gives us here in South Jersey more access to the Herd.

GO HERD!!!

 

[herdalicious]

This is the conference hitting the wall of reality, that adding so many weak, unestablished programs was a bad idea, no matter what media markets they reside in. No one wants to watch this crap.

 

[herdfan429]

This is the conference hitting the wall of reality, that adding so many weak, unestablished programs was a bad idea, no matter what media markets they reside in. No one wants to watch this crap.

Id say its that and the realization by media companies that they OVERPAID for media rights in the past unfortunately for cusa they were just the first victims

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

Allah Akbar.