(01-15-2014 02:31 PM)axeme Wrote:  The problem is that all we are doing is shuffling availability from one area to another. MAC games need to be available across the footprint and available in some form around the country in some package or another. So we lose a large chunk of Ohio viewers and don't gain Chicago either! Some deal. What did we gain? Buffalo? Parts of Michigan?

The whole of New York State including New York City..

The last several MAC basketball games have been shown live in Wisconsin on TWC SportsChannel in milwaukee and green bay. Also the Jan. 19th game between BG and WMU will be live on Comcast SportsNet Chicago. Slowly the MAC is getting MAC basketball distributed throughout the entire region.

(01-19-2014 05:34 AM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  The last several MAC basketball games have been shown live in Wisconsin on TWC SportsChannel in milwaukee and green bay. Also the Jan. 19th game between BG and WMU will be live on Comcast SportsNet Chicago. Slowly the MAC is getting MAC basketball distributed throughout the entire region.

BG in Chicago-big deal.
If NIU Isn't involved- forget it.
And we rarely are.

the Toledo kent game today was on an obscure channel of oceanic time warner digital cable in Hawaii. they pretty much have a monopoly over most of the state tvs

Report: Comcast, Charter near deal to divvy up Time Warner Cable

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01...ssets.html

Comcast wants the TWC Regional Sports Channels and the cable subscribers in North Carolina, NYC, and New England. Charter gets the rest.

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(01-29-2014 11:22 AM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  Report: Comcast, Charter near deal to divvy up Time Warner Cable

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01...ssets.html

Comcast wants the TWC Regional Sports Channels and the cable subscribers in North Carolina, NYC, and New England. Charter gets the rest.

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I have a question: If the deal happens, what would be the total subscribers total? I ask because if Comcast decides to make an actual network for the MAC and gives them the proper channel placement and the advertising backup that they could do for the conference, it would rival anyones deal!

As an example: if the deal happens and the MAC has a network with a reach of 20,000,000 and they charge .75 a subscriber, that is 15million total divided by 13 teams, that is just over 1.1 million a team!

This could turn into a regional sports channel similar to CSS (Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast) which covers 12 states in the Southeast and is jointly owned by both Comcast and Charter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast/Cha..._Southeast

This new channel would be carried everywhere that Time Warner, Charter, and Comcast currently exist within the MAC footprint and some adjacent states. MAC sports from Kansas City to Milwaukee to Virginia and New England. The high majority of all cable subscribers in those states and could be around 25+ million subscribers. Comcast also owns NBC Sports Network who has very little college sports but does carry at the moment the A-10 (think UMass) and CAA (think JMU and/or Delaware) nationally.

Lets call this new Regional Sports Channel CSN (Comcast/Charter Sports Northeast) where CSN blankets the entire MAC footprint, ESPN3 simulcasts nationally (like today's TWCSN deal), and NBC Sports Network picks up a national package of basketball games for the MAC after ESPN picks first.

Charter buying TWC in Missouri would mean both Kansas City and St. Louis would be under one cable company.

If Comcast makes this move I would like to see more games on NBC Sports. The AAC seems to be running dual networks with ESPN and CBS Sports for hoops so the MAC should try for something similar. I watched UMass NIU on NBC earlier this season and the broadcast quality seemed fine.

(01-29-2014 12:23 PM)lance99 Wrote:  

(01-29-2014 11:22 AM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  Report: Comcast, Charter near deal to divvy up Time Warner Cable

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01...ssets.html

Comcast wants the TWC Regional Sports Channels and the cable subscribers in North Carolina, NYC, and New England. Charter gets the rest.

.

I have a question: If the deal happens, what would be the total subscribers total? I ask because if Comcast decides to make an actual network for the MAC and gives them the proper channel placement and the advertising backup that they could do for the conference, it would rival anyones deal!

As an example: if the deal happens and the MAC has a network with a reach of 20,000,000 and they charge .75 a subscriber, that is 15million total divided by 13 teams, that is just over 1.1 million a team!

There will never be a MAC tv network. We don't have the following, nor the big businesses to back it up.

(01-31-2014 06:24 PM)utpotts Wrote:  

(01-29-2014 12:23 PM)lance99 Wrote:  

(01-29-2014 11:22 AM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  Report: Comcast, Charter near deal to divvy up Time Warner Cable

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01...ssets.html

Comcast wants the TWC Regional Sports Channels and the cable subscribers in North Carolina, NYC, and New England. Charter gets the rest.

.

I have a question: If the deal happens, what would be the total subscribers total? I ask because if Comcast decides to make an actual network for the MAC and gives them the proper channel placement and the advertising backup that they could do for the conference, it would rival anyones deal!

As an example: if the deal happens and the MAC has a network with a reach of 20,000,000 and they charge .75 a subscriber, that is 15million total divided by 13 teams, that is just over 1.1 million a team!

There will never be a MAC tv network. We don't have the following, nor the big businesses to back it up.

There won't be a MAC TV Network like the Big Ten Network, but the ACC doesn't have a network like the BTN either but still brand themselves as the "ACC Network" on Raycom Sports. I could see a Comcast / Charter / TWC Network that blankets t
All the cable networks from Missouri to NE that features the MAC similar to Raycom with the ACC even though the channel is not exclusive to only the MAC.

(01-15-2014 09:57 AM)axeme Wrote:  It could only improve. I hope. TWC is the worst provider imaginable, and it's no surprise with more and more options available, subscribers are abandoning ship as soon as they have alternatives. It's unfortunate the MAC aligned itself with a cable company in decline. We can only hope they get bought out and the MAC is able to maximize its audience at least within its footprint.

And while watching over the internet has increasingly become the best option, the MAC really needs to get its games available to more TV's.

It's like the MAC is trying hard to stay a little regional conference. There are MAC alums all over the country dying to get to watch more than an occasional game carried on the 800 lb. gorilla network. The small screen is better than nothing, but our coverage was better a few years ago.

I was trying to look up some articles to try and get a clue of what Comcast or Charter plan on doing with Time Warner Sports Channel after the merger and spin-offs as it will effect the MAC Regional TV deal. It could be very beneficial or it could go the way of what happened after Fox Sports bought out STO.

I didn't really find much other that in the past Comcast had said it was interested in the TWCSCs when looking to split up TWC with Charter.

I did find this that I thought was interesting. Can somebody who has TWC in NE Ohio expand on what this means?

"MORE TIME WARNER: While Time Warner is still Time Warner, some changes could be on the way.

In its regulatory notices for Northeast Ohio, the company says it “may reposition” popular regional sports channel SportsTime Ohio to the “Digital Variety” tier. "

Article Dated May 1 and is clearly positioning itself for the merger.

http://ohiomediawatch.com/2014/05/01/spring-changes/

Does this mean they are kicking SportsTime Ohio out of the standard cable lineup and making it a pay extra only channel? They doing this to lessen competition in the future for whatever Comcast/Charter have planned for the new TWCSC?

Thanks.

Some of the information in this thread is outdated or inaccurate...

Comcast will take full control Time Warner Cable with this purchase.

In a deal that is expected to ease regulation concerns - it will sell / swap some markets and cable subscribers post merger under an agreement reached with Charter last week:

• Charter will gain systems in Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Indiana and Alabama, while divesting systems in California, New England, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Oregon, Washington and Virginia.
• A new spin-off company (with 67% Comcast ownership, but under Charter oversight) will have systems that are near Charter’s existing footprint in Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin.
  

The new Comcast will create the nations largest cable privider with 29.8% of the industry coast-to-coast, roughly 32-million households, and the largest portfolio of cable channel ownership. The deal will make Charter the second largest cable provider with 5.7 million households.

This is from Matt Sarz

@mattsarz: http://t.co/zAqDajXu0z Dark blue are ones Charter is keeping. Light blue are coming from TWC & Comcast. Orange are "SpinCo"
Anything not listed of those that are TWC or are Comcast are going to Comcast.

So if the MAC stays with TWC that was in Ohio it should now benefit NIU since our area was already Comcast owned.

Though if the MAC does not go with TWC/Comcast then it doesn't matter.

Its been almost a year and now Comcast is dropping the offer.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2...rner-cable

(04-23-2015 03:08 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  Its been almost a year and now Comcast is dropping the offer.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2...rner-cable

Yes, news was leaking out that the Justice Department was going to oppose the merger as being excessive concentration against the public interest (same reason they blocked the AT&T / T-Mobile merger).

OTOH, it is rumored that the AT&T / DirecTV merger might be allowed to go ahead.