CUSA signs TV deal w/ CBS Sports!
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Estimated $400k/school/year. Good.
CBSSN - 9 football games, plus championship. 8 basketball games, plus semi-finals, final and women's final.
Produced by CBSSN and shown on Facebook - 3 football games. 6 basketball games.
Stadium Channel - 15 football games. 17 basketball games. Half of the quarterfinals.
Produced by Stadium Channel and shown on Facebook - 7 football games. 10 basketball games. Half of quarterfinals. Remainder of women's tournament.
Five years.
The deal with BE In Sports has one more year to run. 10 football games, 10 basketball games, 10 women's basketball games, 12 baseball games, 12 softball games, 10 soccer games, 10 women's soccer games, 10 volleyball games.
Teams can produce games left over for showing on ESPN3, which pays a nominal fee for this.
I'm going to say this is good. ESPN just does not want us unless we are willing to play on random weeknights, which is KILLING the MAC's live gates and all pretense of a traditional college atmosphere. Buy a remote, one with a "guide" button and it will be OK. Stadium is FREE on the internet, and FREE with an old-fashioned antenna if you live close enough to WVAH's tower in Scott Depot. It is also on most cable systems and if Marshall is playing a Facebook game, WVAH will show it rather than the other game that Stadium is showing. The main issue is it is not on DirecTV or DISH, but like I said, buy an antenna or just watch it online. BE In just has a year to run, and its coverage is actually very good, despite the fact that everything else on it is foreign sports. The main issue with it is DirecTV, DISH and most cable companies (the ones that have it) put it in the highest package or with other foreign sports channels. But you can get it on-line for less than $5/month.
This is as good as we are going to get. This contract runs out about the same time as the "power 5" buy outs kick in, which, IMHO, will set off the next "great realignment", which will filter down the the G5 as well. The job from now until then is to W I N. The last "great realignment" caught us at our lowest ebb in 25 years, thanks to KO.
CBSSN - 9 football games, plus championship. 8 basketball games, plus semi-finals, final and women's final.
Produced by CBSSN and shown on Facebook - 3 football games. 6 basketball games.
Stadium Channel - 15 football games. 17 basketball games. Half of the quarterfinals.
Produced by Stadium Channel and shown on Facebook - 7 football games. 10 basketball games. Half of quarterfinals. Remainder of women's tournament.
Five years.
The deal with BE In Sports has one more year to run. 10 football games, 10 basketball games, 10 women's basketball games, 12 baseball games, 12 softball games, 10 soccer games, 10 women's soccer games, 10 volleyball games.
Teams can produce games left over for showing on ESPN3, which pays a nominal fee for this.
I'm going to say this is good. ESPN just does not want us unless we are willing to play on random weeknights, which is KILLING the MAC's live gates and all pretense of a traditional college atmosphere. Buy a remote, one with a "guide" button and it will be OK. Stadium is FREE on the internet, and FREE with an old-fashioned antenna if you live close enough to WVAH's tower in Scott Depot. It is also on most cable systems and if Marshall is playing a Facebook game, WVAH will show it rather than the other game that Stadium is showing. The main issue is it is not on DirecTV or DISH, but like I said, buy an antenna or just watch it online. BE In just has a year to run, and its coverage is actually very good, despite the fact that everything else on it is foreign sports. The main issue with it is DirecTV, DISH and most cable companies (the ones that have it) put it in the highest package or with other foreign sports channels. But you can get it on-line for less than $5/month.
This is as good as we are going to get. This contract runs out about the same time as the "power 5" buy outs kick in, which, IMHO, will set off the next "great realignment", which will filter down the the G5 as well. The job from now until then is to W I N. The last "great realignment" caught us at our lowest ebb in 25 years, thanks to KO.
KO was following in the Tradition of Lance West
Do nothing, turn down smart moves, and collect checks into retirement.
Do nothing, turn down smart moves, and collect checks into retirement.
Not having ESPN hurts us in coverage. They don't want us unless we play on weeknights, BUT they also don't cover us AT ALL. We aren;t one of their conferences that they push
They might not push the conference but Marshall when we are doing good still gets some respect from ESPN.
ESPN divides the news of sports into halves. Things it has the rights to and things it does not. It only covers things it does not have rights to when they are so big they have to, such as its coverage right now of the NCAAs. Does it hurt? Sure. But ESPN, and especially its dying Sports Center brand, grows less influential every day. Everything bad that happens to ESPN is a good thing for sports fans.
More realistically, SamC, its divided into thirds, rather than halves. Because about a third of the time they spend advocating the most left wing, politically correct topic that they can find, even if only tangentially related to sports. I think that one of the network's covert objectives is to out "ultra radical" other "sports" entities such as Sports Illustrated
Funny though, we're getting more coverage and exposure this one game from the Evil Empire than all of our half ass media outlets the entire season combined. KO made the most idiotic move in school history for siding with the incompetents at CUSA in picking CSTV over ESPN. WOW!
Either that or Lance West turning down CUSA after the 1999 season
Or KO letting Miami and Tennessee out of their games at the Joan for Free
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