I only watched the BSU-OU game, but the cuts during live action drove me nuts. And forcing in highlight packages that make you miss live action is never a good thing. Reghi is one of the most cliche sportscasters out there, but he's a good guy, and really personable.

I didn't catch the names of the 2 guys at the pre-game desk, but the analyst (younger guy on the left) was painful.

STO has got a good start, and they'll tweak it as they grow. They just need better fact-checking, as a lot of their info was inaccurate.

(03-11-2011 12:11 PM)Rockets1 Wrote:  Love Reghi... can listen to him all day...

850 AM 3-6 PM.

Was listening to him as I was driving back to BG the past few days from Columbus, Dayton, and Lima.

(03-11-2011 06:15 AM)ilovegymnast Wrote:  I have Directv too and it amazes me that they can black out channels that you pay extra for. Luckily I live in Ohio so STO doesn't get blacked out. I have had problems with college football games being blacked out for whatever reason they deem fit at that moment in time.

Directv would love to show games on all sorts of channels but they are not allowed to due to laws that limit what you can show when two different stations have it.

For instance my mom lives in Binghamton NY. She is a die hard NY Rangers fan and she loves watching them on MSG (Madison Square Garden network). Unfortunately the owners of MSG made a map and consider Binghamton to be a part of the state that wants to watch the Buffalo Sabers rather than watch the Rangers. Due to this MSG forces Directv to show the MSG feed that shows Buffalo games rather than the Ranger feed. Don't even get my mom started on the HD problem she has due to the NY city cable network that randomly decides which games on MSG are allowed to be shown as HD outside of their network to try to bring in new customers (doesn't work either since nobody outside the immediate city vicinity can change to that cable network so they are screwing us for no reason).

(03-11-2011 01:30 PM)Pulltown Falcon Wrote:  

(03-11-2011 12:11 PM)Rockets1 Wrote:  Love Reghi... can listen to him all day...

850 AM 3-6 PM.

If you're in the Cleveland radio market (which doesn't always include Cleveland).

Interesting I'm watching EMU/UT on STO (HD to boot) on DirecTV (I'm out of the midwest TV market).

I assume it is on ESPN Full Court.

(03-11-2011 12:42 PM)BSSN Wrote:  STO has got a good start, and they'll tweak it as they grow. They just need better fact-checking, as a lot of their info was inaccurate.

Agreed. According to STO, OU was a 13 seed when they beat Georgetown last year. I believe that was misinformation was mentioned in at least 3 games that featured the Cats.

(03-10-2011 09:24 PM)axeme Wrote:  The sideline reporter was named Allie LaForce. She did an excellent job of knowing exactly what to ask Geno and Reggie and make followups that were insightful. Very impressive. The network sideline reporters should be so good.

And she was very easy on the eyes...

Indeed!

(03-11-2011 09:20 AM)mattsarz Wrote:  My guess is that they (they being ESPN) only allowed STO to show the games to viewers who are in-market for STO, then required ESPN3.com/Full Court. Regardless of whether you have sports pack. Believe this is no different than regular season football & basketball for the MAC, and no different than when the MAC was on Fox Sports Ohio.

Basically, they treated the MAC tournament like they would a pro sports game.

I'm sure you are right, but it is still ridiculous. If I was in the market I would have STO as my local sports channel and wouldn't need to pay for the sports package just to watch the games. So it makes no sense to sell me a package so I can watch games in a different market and then black them out. And like I already said, other conferences were showing their out of market games on channels in the same sports package, why not the MAC and STO?

They have now created a market for FullCourt--MAC fans-- that may be small, but there was never any reason for MAC fans to subscribe before. Just expanding their reach incrementally. The more they offer, the bigger the subscriber base gets.

For me, the move to STO has been a disaster. I lost all my access to watch MAC basketball.

Like ANYTHING that ESPN is even remotely connected to, it turned into a pile of No way in h#ll am I paying for an entire season of full court just to watch a couple of games.

My ISP doesn't get ESPN3, STO MAC games are blacked out, All-MACcess is a disaster, as usual. I guess the turd my team is laying right now almost makes me glad I can't watch it.

This is all typical MAC - a rinky dink media package from a rinky dink league. If you ain't in Ohio, forget it.

(03-11-2011 08:44 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  For me, the move to STO has been a disaster. I lost all my access to watch MAC basketball.

Like ANYTHING that ESPN is even remotely connected to, it turned into a pile of No way in h#ll am I paying for an entire season of full court just to watch a couple of games.

My ISP doesn't get ESPN3, STO MAC games are blacked out, All-MACcess is a disaster, as usual. I guess the turd my team is laying right now almost makes me glad I can't watch it.

This is all typical MAC - a rinky dink media package from a rinky dink league.

Trust me, you don’t want to watch Western against Akron right now.
STO is showing the Bronco meltdown in digital delivery.

(03-11-2011 03:16 PM)OZoner Wrote:  

(03-11-2011 01:30 PM)Pulltown Falcon Wrote:  

(03-11-2011 12:11 PM)Rockets1 Wrote:  Love Reghi... can listen to him all day...

850 AM 3-6 PM.

If you're in the Cleveland radio market (which doesn't always include Cleveland).

I can pull in a decent signal from the western part of the state for 850. I listen to him often as I travel.

(03-11-2011 08:44 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  This is all typical MAC - a rinky dink media package from a rinky dink league. If you ain't in Ohio, forget it.

ESPN controls sports. Blame them if you're not happy.

I say invest in a new game console and use their services. You get ESPN3 that way. Since I already had an xbox360 and xbox live I can watch ESPN3 anytime. Haven't really utilized it yet as I could (I don't tend to watch too many sports outside of hockey and college football on TV) but I could. Of course it is not worth it if you don't like video games at all.

It's the first year of the STO deal. They will improve things. Maybe we should be happy there is a station that actually cares about having us.

STO needs content; MAC needs exposure.

(03-11-2011 09:02 PM)Sultan of Euphonistan Wrote:  I say invest in a new game console and use their services. You get ESPN3 that way. Since I already had an xbox360 and xbox live I can watch ESPN3 anytime. Haven't really utilized it yet as I could (I don't tend to watch too many sports outside of hockey and college football on TV) but I could. Of course it is not worth it if you don't like video games at all.

If I was a kid that might be something for me to pursue. However, I happen to be a middle aged MAC hoops fan that is not a gamer. It would be an expensive way to ensure that I could see MAC basketball games.

OZoner - I did blame ESPN, the evil empire.

I go the XBox option (which has been great for me since I'm not in the normal MAC viewing area for any package that they have), but I'll note that STO is also available nationwide as part of the sports pack on AT&T Uverse on 735 (SD) and 1735 (HD)...

Yep that's how I watched it actually. Good old 735.

(03-11-2011 05:01 PM)BGSUalum1987 Wrote:  

virtually flawless