(10-02-2013 06:23 AM)Racinejake Wrote:  

(10-01-2013 10:37 PM)BJUnklFkr Wrote:  

(08-21-2013 06:04 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Every time I think this conference can't get any worse.

As much thought as you put into things, I am surprised you reacted this way. I thought you would have already built this into the equation.

I sure as hell never bought the Aresco "we'll get more exposure" crap.

Agreed, BJ. This conference is a turd and the TV contract reflects that. Networks don't want to invest heavily in showcasing many of the teams in this conference.

Not sure where the hate is coming from in terms of our basketball TV coverage. New TV deal blows the old Big East deal away. Look up some of the middle of pack teams in other major conference. Anyone want WVU's TV schedule, how about Xavier and all the Fox1 games?

There are many reasons to dislike the American Athletic Conference, basketball TV exposure shouldn't be one of them.

(10-02-2013 07:38 AM)bearcatlawjd Wrote:  Not sure where the hate is coming from in terms of our basketball TV coverage. New TV deal blows the old Big East deal away. Look up some of the middle of pack teams in other major conference. Anyone want WVU's TV schedule, how about Xavier and all the Fox1 games?

There are many reasons to dislike the American Athletic Conference, basketball TV exposure shouldn't be one of them.

That's delightful and all, but I think football is the context here.

^^ FoxSports1 is in 90M households. CBS Sports, ESPNNews, ESPNU are all in less households. Most of the country does not need digital cable or if they do have digital cable need to upgrade to the sports package to pick up FoxSports1.

Second, it bears to be repeated again but football drives the bus. Our football team hasn't been shown on television for a month.

This conference sucks for UC-- period. There is absolutely zero buzz about UC right now.

(10-02-2013 07:59 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  ^^ FoxSports1 is in 90M households. CBS Sports, ESPNNews, ESPNU are all in less households. Most of the country does not need digital cable or if they do have digital cable need to upgrade to the sports package to pick up FoxSports1.

Second, it bears to be repeated again but football drives the bus. Our football team hasn't been shown on television for a month.

This conference sucks for UC-- period. There is absolutely zero buzz about UC right now.

This is the old Big East TV deal, we are still in a BCS conference this season as well. So other than teams changing we are pretty much status quo on the football side. Talk to me next season when the new TV deal kicks. I believe we will see weekend games on ESPNews, ESPNU, and CBSSN next season.

In terms of national TV exposure here are rankings.

Tier 1:

CBS/ABC/NBC/ESPN/ESPN2

Tier 2: ESPNU/ESPNews

Tier 3: CBSSN/Fox1/Fox2/NBCSN/BTN/PAC-12 Network

Tier 4: ESPN3/Other Online only games/PPV

local coverage ranks somewhere around tier 3 and tier 4. Great for locals but awful for those outside the area if the game isn't available online or through a PPV package. I have ESPNU and ESPNews ahead of all non-ESPN cable coverage but there is room for Fox1, NBCSN, and CBSSN to move up to that level.

There is a huge gap between tier 1 and tier 2 in my view, a small one between 2 and 3 and huge gap between tier 3 and tier 4.

Here are my tiers:

Channels I get (and for all of us, it's really about us, right?):

CBS/ABC/NBC/ESPN/ESPN2

ESPNU/ESPNews

Fox1/NBCSN/BTN

Channels I don't get:

CBSSN/Fox2/PAC-12 Network

ESPN3/Other Online only games/PPV

I thought Fox was showing showing primetime games on their broadcast network channel. I would consider that tier 1 as well.