BIG TEN NETWORK being dropped by Comcast in May
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Good. Just a bunch of garbage 3rd tier games that nobody, except the respective fans of those schools care about.
They think they can compete and are peers with Fox or ESPN, but forget that the majority of college sports fan aren’t fans the B10. At least the Cubs or Cylones or Bulls or other generally interesting games are occasionally on those stations.
It’s like a vegetarian restaurant... if you aren’t vegetarian, don’t bother looking at the menu.
They think they can compete and are peers with Fox or ESPN, but forget that the majority of college sports fan aren’t fans the B10. At least the Cubs or Cylones or Bulls or other generally interesting games are occasionally on those stations.
It’s like a vegetarian restaurant... if you aren’t vegetarian, don’t bother looking at the menu.
What you guys dont understand is when ISU plays @ iowa a lot of the time those games are on BTN. This will effect us more than you think
Great reason to stop playing them moving forward
Agreed. Hawk fans say Notre Dame and big names keep calling and wanting to play them. Maybe if we drop them, they can get Alabama to fill our spot in their super bowl.
A lot of those times when this happens once every other year (every other year for football and basketball, but football has been on ESPN the last couple of games in Iowa City)?
Also, the network isn't going anywhere in B10 states, so ISU games will still be on here. If you don't live in Iowa or B10 country, then yes, you may miss an ISU game once per year, but they also have streaming capabilities
I agree. They're almost certainly acting like it's gone for good as a negotiating tactic.
Looks like Comcast is pulling the plug on the B1G Network in non B1G markets. This should make it pretty clear that they mean business. It should also tell you that the network is losing the cable and satellite providers money.
Not even close to correct. (well, for me at least.) I watch a heck of a lot of volleyball and softball on that network that otherwise would not be televised. I am not a fan of any Big Ten schools. But I love BTN, and am glad that the state of Illinois gets to keep it.
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Why is that? Do you not like volleyball or softball? The Big Ten is, hands down, the best volleyball conference and BTN televises a lot of matches in the fall. It's great being able to watch Nebraska, Minnesota, Penn State, Wisconsin all the time.
And, while they're not great at softball, it's still nice to see. We're able to watch several girls that we know personally, thanks to BTN. It's only going to get better as DD gets older and more and more of the girls she's played with/against are on TV. If DD doesn't end up playing at ISU, I hope she chooses a Big Ten school so I can watch her in four years.
Exactly! Some ISU fans are so against the b10 and Iowa that they boycott the channel and act like its the worst thing in the world
We will watch wrestling duals on it. Would prefer if it was an add on in the sports pack we get. I know people like my 87 year old mom doesn’t care for it so why make her have it.
Personally I don't watch a ton of either sport. However, I think this is the area that the Big XII is really weak with allowing the schools to do T3. Obviously, Cyclones.TV has tons of volleyball and softball content but only ISU games. The big XII needs to get all the schools to agree to some sort of combined network that allows everyone access to all the schools. So if I subscribe (and perhaps this would have to be a yearly or minimum subscription) to Cyclones.TV then I should also get a pass to watch any of the other schools T3 content and then they could also then access ISU's.
How will this effect us anymore then it does now? Right now (at most) twice every 2 years our revenue teams might end up on BTN.
The Big12 is starting to look extremely smart for dragging their feet on the conference network. The next round of television contracts are going to look much different along with the delivery services for the content. The Big 12 will end up being in a really good spot to launch a streaming service via Amazon, Twitter, YouTube, etc.
i watch the BTN for many of the minor sports where ISU competes against the Big 10 schools, or in sports that ISU doesn't carry where kids from Iowa might be competing at other schools or against Big 10 schools. This is the same reason I typically watch the SEC network.
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