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RE: CBS Sports Net to air MAC games
(06-03-2015 01:18 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  Why does FS2 suck? Can anyone answer that? Clear waste of a sports channel....

Not many homes and Fox doesn't put much on it. You think it is a mess have you ever seen Universal Sports? That there bicycle racing is something.
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(06-03-2015 01:18 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  Why does FS2 suck? Can anyone answer that? Clear waste of a sports channel....

They aired a Big East game or two that nearly had fewer people watching than were in attendance. It's a forgotten network.
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(06-03-2015 01:25 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 01:18 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  Why does FS2 suck? Can anyone answer that? Clear waste of a sports channel....

They aired a Big East game or two that nearly had fewer people watching than were in attendance. It's a forgotten network.

Then why is it still on sitting there with useless stuff?.....Put something on there people want to watch and throw CUSA a few games...

When FS1 launched FS2 was promoted as kind of like ESPN2...SO far has been a huge disappointment...
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(06-03-2015 01:35 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 01:25 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 01:18 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  Why does FS2 suck? Can anyone answer that? Clear waste of a sports channel....

They aired a Big East game or two that nearly had fewer people watching than were in attendance. It's a forgotten network.

Then why is it still on sitting there with useless stuff?.....Put something on there people want to watch and throw CUSA a few games...

When FS1 launched FS2 was promoted as kind of like ESPN2...SO far has been a huge disappointment...

FS2 really wasn't promoted at all when FS1 launched. It was an afterthought brought along for the ride.

As for why they don't put any games on FS2, I don't know. Unsure if C-USA's agreements stipulate the specific platforms that C-USA games have to air on or not. For that matter, FS1 wasn't born in 2010, but FSN had regional affiliations in places they no longer do (many Comcast SportsNet RSN areas).
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(06-03-2015 12:43 PM)Afflicted Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 11:02 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 10:22 AM)Superanjario Wrote:  Looks like CBS is out of the direct CUSA business. I think it's more of a model change for CBS than anything. Rather than directly buying rights, they can buy leftovers from ESPN at waaaaay cheaper price. Maybe they can do the same with CUSA stuff in the future?

Maybe we see Fox buy all rights with ASN chipping in at some level next time?

Yup. I would say CBS-Sports has replaced those open CUSA slots with MAC content. All that really means is CBS-Sports is not an active bidder for their current CUSA package. That's not really a big surprise. I think most everyone pretty much expected that after they failed to pick their full allotment of games last year. The real question is---who else is lurking out there to bid against Fox? You need at least one other bidder to set up a dynamic that would maximize value. If there is just one bidder, its tough to get full value. NBC could be a wild card here. Frankly, NBC-Sports would be a step up from CBS-Sports Network as it has more actual subscribers (about 80 million vs 55 million for CBSSN).

Agree. I hope NBC-Sports makes a competitive bid against FOX. They need meaningful college football content and I know they could give CUSA some good time slots. I really hope they step up. It could be big for the conference.

It is highly, highly unlikely that C-USA will take the contract to the open market and even give NBC the chance. Fox and CBS are going to be given first priority to re-up before the current deal expires. Those negotiations - in fact - have already begun.

We already know CBS has a decreased interest. Fox, on the other hand, remains committed and interested, and Fox will give us enough to avoid risking having to pay more if another competitor makes a bid in the open market. Fox does see more value in us than does CBS - largely because of the regional draws to which they have networks specifically designed to cater to that type of content.
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(06-03-2015 12:59 PM)mattsarz Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 12:43 PM)Afflicted Wrote:  Agree. I hope NBC-Sports makes a competitive bid against FOX. They need meaningful college football content and I know they could give CUSA some good time slots. I really hope they step up. It could be big for the conference.

Never been very bullish on NBCSN. Have an alternate strategy. Lots of motorsports, particularly NASCAR starting next month through mid-November on a lot of Saturdays. They'll have rights to the Xfinity series and practice sessions that occupy a lot of Fridays & Saturdays.

Agreed. i don't think NBCSports will be a player in college football. They can make money with other sports.
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I wish CUSA would just do their own network like the SEC or Big10, but instead of being on cable, put it all online? Take the individual schools online feeds and run them on the "CUSA Network". If a TV network wants some games then sell them individually, but keep them online too. I know CUSA does some games, but its only a select few. If schools would increase the quality of their individual web broadcasts that could be something cool. I'd pay a few hundred bucks to have access to a quality broadcast of every CUSA game. Basketball, football, baseball, soccer etc. Sell advertising on it for additional revenue. Unless it severely cut into the TV money, it seems it would work well. The P5s are making a ton of money on their networks.
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(06-03-2015 02:30 PM)monarx Wrote:  I wish CUSA would just do their own network like the SEC or Big10, but instead of being on cable, put it all online? Take the individual schools online feeds and run them on the "CUSA Network". If a TV network wants some games then sell them individually, but keep them online too. I know CUSA does some games, but its only a select few. If schools would increase the quality of their individual web broadcasts that could be something cool. I'd pay a few hundred bucks to have access to a quality broadcast of every CUSA game. Basketball, football, baseball, soccer etc. Sell advertising on it for additional revenue. Unless it severely cut into the TV money, it seems it would work well.

It would severely cut into the TV money.

Most people wouldn't want to pay a few hundred to see all CUSA games online. Advertisers follow where most people go.

(06-03-2015 02:30 PM)monarx Wrote:  The P5s are making a ton of money on their networks.

Because they get carried in cable/satellite packages. No package, no $$$
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(06-03-2015 01:35 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 01:25 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 01:18 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  Why does FS2 suck? Can anyone answer that? Clear waste of a sports channel....

They aired a Big East game or two that nearly had fewer people watching than were in attendance. It's a forgotten network.

Then why is it still on sitting there with useless stuff?.....Put something on there people want to watch and throw CUSA a few games...

When FS1 launched FS2 was promoted as kind of like ESPN2...SO far has been a huge disappointment...

Patience grasshopper. Patience. They will get it rolling give it some time, they need to acquire a couple more rights for FS1 before they start putting more content on FS2, which will be a lot of what is currently on FS1.
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(06-03-2015 02:22 PM)GreenSteve Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 12:59 PM)mattsarz Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 12:43 PM)Afflicted Wrote:  Agree. I hope NBC-Sports makes a competitive bid against FOX. They need meaningful college football content and I know they could give CUSA some good time slots. I really hope they step up. It could be big for the conference.

Never been very bullish on NBCSN. Have an alternate strategy. Lots of motorsports, particularly NASCAR starting next month through mid-November on a lot of Saturdays. They'll have rights to the Xfinity series and practice sessions that occupy a lot of Fridays & Saturdays.

Agreed. i don't think NBCSports will be a player in college football. They can make money with other sports.

And to be clear, they did go after the Pac-12 & American/Big East (Pac-12 they had a real chance if ESPN & FOX couldn't work together), but once they missed out on those, they set their sights elsewhere and they haven't done bad. Especially if they can keep all of the BPL rights. Their F1 ratings I believe are up for every race, some substantially, partially due to slight changes in some race start times that allowed for the races to be show essentially at 9pm or 10pm on Saturday nights.
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I'd love to see a G5 channel created. There are enough of us to support that. Games that aren't picked up could be aired, coaches shows, highlights, basketball, Olympic sports etc.
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(06-03-2015 02:30 PM)monarx Wrote:  I wish CUSA would just do their own network like the SEC or Big10, but instead of being on cable, put it all online? Take the individual schools online feeds and run them on the "CUSA Network". If a TV network wants some games then sell them individually, but keep them online too. I know CUSA does some games, but its only a select few. If schools would increase the quality of their individual web broadcasts that could be something cool. I'd pay a few hundred bucks to have access to a quality broadcast of every CUSA game. Basketball, football, baseball, soccer etc. Sell advertising on it for additional revenue. Unless it severely cut into the TV money, it seems it would work well. The P5s are making a ton of money on their networks.

FS2 receives a reported 16 cents per month per subscriber. TruTV 10 cents, CBS Sports and MLB Network 25 cents.

The Pac-12 Network after two years is available in 11 million homes.
Let's say a G5 Network hits that (the MTN was always said to be in 7 to 10 million homes) a twenty cent carriage fee would produce $26.4 million per month.

If the channel is high definition, you will pay roughly $1 million to lease the transponder (standard def could cut that by 75%). You will need to lease another transponder to get the signal from the stadium to the studio and production facility but you will lease that as needed, figure might get away with a quarter of million.

Lease a studio and production facility, need of course all the electronic goodies.

Staffing you have to have a several person broadcast engineering staff to cover all your live work and might be able to use automation over night and early morning. Unless you are doing a lot of canned stuff need on-air studio people.

Lease crews and production trucks for all live events, have to hire on air people.

Hire a sales staff. Phones, lots of electricity involved.

At 20 cents you might get close to the neighborhood of what the current contract brings in. If you settle for a dime probably losing money.

But for all that, it is in 11 million homes vs 45 million for FS2
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(06-03-2015 03:56 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 02:30 PM)monarx Wrote:  I wish CUSA would just do their own network like the SEC or Big10, but instead of being on cable, put it all online? Take the individual schools online feeds and run them on the "CUSA Network". If a TV network wants some games then sell them individually, but keep them online too. I know CUSA does some games, but its only a select few. If schools would increase the quality of their individual web broadcasts that could be something cool. I'd pay a few hundred bucks to have access to a quality broadcast of every CUSA game. Basketball, football, baseball, soccer etc. Sell advertising on it for additional revenue. Unless it severely cut into the TV money, it seems it would work well. The P5s are making a ton of money on their networks.

FS2 receives a reported 16 cents per month per subscriber. TruTV 10 cents, CBS Sports and MLB Network 25 cents.

The Pac-12 Network after two years is available in 11 million homes.
Let's say a G5 Network hits that (the MTN was always said to be in 7 to 10 million homes) a twenty cent carriage fee would produce $26.4 million per month.

If the channel is high definition, you will pay roughly $1 million to lease the transponder (standard def could cut that by 75%). You will need to lease another transponder to get the signal from the stadium to the studio and production facility but you will lease that as needed, figure might get away with a quarter of million.

Lease a studio and production facility, need of course all the electronic goodies.

Staffing you have to have a several person broadcast engineering staff to cover all your live work and might be able to use automation over night and early morning. Unless you are doing a lot of canned stuff need on-air studio people.

Lease crews and production trucks for all live events, have to hire on air people.

Hire a sales staff. Phones, lots of electricity involved.

At 20 cents you might get close to the neighborhood of what the current contract brings in. If you settle for a dime probably losing money.

But for all that, it is in 11 million homes vs 45 million for FS2

I think a G5 network would be in far more than 11 million homes. You are talking 62 fan bases spread over a the entire nation, with a member (in some cases more than one member) in many of the top 30 markets. At .25 cents a subscriber, my guess is you could feasibly get into as many homes as CBS-Sports Network or NBC-Sports. That's somewhere between 50 and 80 million homes. That's 240 million a year, minus expenses. I suspect you could run the network for less than half that. That's 140 million split between the G5---or 28 million each. That's twice what the CFP throws off to the G5 and still leaves a massive amount of inventory for the G5 conferences to sell through their typical channels.

If each conference gave the G5 network 5 games, it would barely dent their income from other networks---yet the G5 network would have 25 games to show in season one. I think its a viable plan---the issue is going to be getting the schools to agree on a monetary split since the current market value for each conferences games appears to be different.
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Great points. Thanks for the figures. It seems that IF FS2 were willing to carry more CUSA games that would be the better way to go. However, they aren't showing the games, and if we could get the same amount of money and get ALL of our games on TV for all sports (over half would probably be live, the rest could be tape delay) I'd do it for the exposure.

Even if only a third of homes got it, at least every game would be on. If FS2 had an online stream so people who's cable system doesnt carry it could watch, that would be even better. I also like the idea of going in with the MW for a G5 network. With the time difference, a lot of live games could be shown from noon eastern until midnight pacific. If we played Thursday, Friday and Saturday games each conference could get 4 or 5 live national broadcasts each week. The others could be tape delayed or shown on delay Mon and Tues in primetime.

If there was a total G5 network, seems each conference would only get 1 game of the week shown live. I love the idea of tape delays, coaches shows etc. though.
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(06-03-2015 04:21 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 03:56 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 02:30 PM)monarx Wrote:  I wish CUSA would just do their own network like the SEC or Big10, but instead of being on cable, put it all online? Take the individual schools online feeds and run them on the "CUSA Network". If a TV network wants some games then sell them individually, but keep them online too. I know CUSA does some games, but its only a select few. If schools would increase the quality of their individual web broadcasts that could be something cool. I'd pay a few hundred bucks to have access to a quality broadcast of every CUSA game. Basketball, football, baseball, soccer etc. Sell advertising on it for additional revenue. Unless it severely cut into the TV money, it seems it would work well. The P5s are making a ton of money on their networks.

FS2 receives a reported 16 cents per month per subscriber. TruTV 10 cents, CBS Sports and MLB Network 25 cents.

The Pac-12 Network after two years is available in 11 million homes.
Let's say a G5 Network hits that (the MTN was always said to be in 7 to 10 million homes) a twenty cent carriage fee would produce $26.4 million per month.

If the channel is high definition, you will pay roughly $1 million to lease the transponder (standard def could cut that by 75%). You will need to lease another transponder to get the signal from the stadium to the studio and production facility but you will lease that as needed, figure might get away with a quarter of million.

Lease a studio and production facility, need of course all the electronic goodies.

Staffing you have to have a several person broadcast engineering staff to cover all your live work and might be able to use automation over night and early morning. Unless you are doing a lot of canned stuff need on-air studio people.

Lease crews and production trucks for all live events, have to hire on air people.

Hire a sales staff. Phones, lots of electricity involved.

At 20 cents you might get close to the neighborhood of what the current contract brings in. If you settle for a dime probably losing money.

But for all that, it is in 11 million homes vs 45 million for FS2

I think a G5 network would be in far more than 11 million homes. You are talking 62 fan bases spread over a the entire nation, with a member (in some cases more than one member) in many of the top 30 markets. At .25 cents a subscriber, my guess is you could feasibly get into as many homes as CBS-Sports Network or NBC-Sports. That's somewhere between 50 and 80 million homes. That's 240 million a year, minus expenses. I suspect you could run the network for less than half that. That's 140 million split between the G5---or 28 million each. That's twice what the CFP throws off to the G5 and still leaves a massive amount of inventory for the G5 conferences to sell through their typical channels.

If each conference gave the G5 network 5 games, it would barely dent their income from other networks---yet the G5 network would have 25 games to show in season one. I think its a viable plan---the issue is going to be getting the schools to agree on a monetary split since the current market value for each conferences games appears to be different.

It sounds feasible to me. I hope this option is explored by G5 ADs at some point. It could mean an extra $2million annually, or more, in the pocket of each G5member. Every penny counts. For it to work, there would have to be a lot of content. Every G5 would have to take part.
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(06-03-2015 04:21 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 03:56 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 02:30 PM)monarx Wrote:  I wish CUSA would just do their own network like the SEC or Big10, but instead of being on cable, put it all online? Take the individual schools online feeds and run them on the "CUSA Network". If a TV network wants some games then sell them individually, but keep them online too. I know CUSA does some games, but its only a select few. If schools would increase the quality of their individual web broadcasts that could be something cool. I'd pay a few hundred bucks to have access to a quality broadcast of every CUSA game. Basketball, football, baseball, soccer etc. Sell advertising on it for additional revenue. Unless it severely cut into the TV money, it seems it would work well. The P5s are making a ton of money on their networks.

FS2 receives a reported 16 cents per month per subscriber. TruTV 10 cents, CBS Sports and MLB Network 25 cents.

The Pac-12 Network after two years is available in 11 million homes.
Let's say a G5 Network hits that (the MTN was always said to be in 7 to 10 million homes) a twenty cent carriage fee would produce $26.4 million per month.

If the channel is high definition, you will pay roughly $1 million to lease the transponder (standard def could cut that by 75%). You will need to lease another transponder to get the signal from the stadium to the studio and production facility but you will lease that as needed, figure might get away with a quarter of million.

Lease a studio and production facility, need of course all the electronic goodies.

Staffing you have to have a several person broadcast engineering staff to cover all your live work and might be able to use automation over night and early morning. Unless you are doing a lot of canned stuff need on-air studio people.

Lease crews and production trucks for all live events, have to hire on air people.

Hire a sales staff. Phones, lots of electricity involved.

At 20 cents you might get close to the neighborhood of what the current contract brings in. If you settle for a dime probably losing money.

But for all that, it is in 11 million homes vs 45 million for FS2

I think a G5 network would be in far more than 11 million homes. You are talking 62 fan bases spread over a the entire nation, with a member (in some cases more than one member) in many of the top 30 markets. At .25 cents a subscriber, my guess is you could feasibly get into as many homes as CBS-Sports Network or NBC-Sports. That's somewhere between 50 and 80 million homes. That's 240 million a year, minus expenses. I suspect you could run the network for less than half that. That's 140 million split between the G5---or 28 million each. That's twice what the CFP throws off to the G5 and still leaves a massive amount of inventory for the G5 conferences to sell through their typical channels.

If each conference gave the G5 network 5 games, it would barely dent their income from other networks---yet the G5 network would have 25 games to show in season one. I think its a viable plan---the issue is going to be getting the schools to agree on a monetary split since the current market value for each conferences games appears to be different.

This makes a lot of sense, and could help close the money gap a little too. I hope someone with influence is thinking along these lines.
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(06-03-2015 04:32 PM)monarx Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 04:21 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 03:56 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 02:30 PM)monarx Wrote:  I wish CUSA would just do their own network like the SEC or Big10, but instead of being on cable, put it all online? Take the individual schools online feeds and run them on the "CUSA Network". If a TV network wants some games then sell them individually, but keep them online too. I know CUSA does some games, but its only a select few. If schools would increase the quality of their individual web broadcasts that could be something cool. I'd pay a few hundred bucks to have access to a quality broadcast of every CUSA game. Basketball, football, baseball, soccer etc. Sell advertising on it for additional revenue. Unless it severely cut into the TV money, it seems it would work well. The P5s are making a ton of money on their networks.

FS2 receives a reported 16 cents per month per subscriber. TruTV 10 cents, CBS Sports and MLB Network 25 cents.

The Pac-12 Network after two years is available in 11 million homes.
Let's say a G5 Network hits that (the MTN was always said to be in 7 to 10 million homes) a twenty cent carriage fee would produce $26.4 million per month.

If the channel is high definition, you will pay roughly $1 million to lease the transponder (standard def could cut that by 75%). You will need to lease another transponder to get the signal from the stadium to the studio and production facility but you will lease that as needed, figure might get away with a quarter of million.

Lease a studio and production facility, need of course all the electronic goodies.

Staffing you have to have a several person broadcast engineering staff to cover all your live work and might be able to use automation over night and early morning. Unless you are doing a lot of canned stuff need on-air studio people.

Lease crews and production trucks for all live events, have to hire on air people.

Hire a sales staff. Phones, lots of electricity involved.

At 20 cents you might get close to the neighborhood of what the current contract brings in. If you settle for a dime probably losing money.

But for all that, it is in 11 million homes vs 45 million for FS2

I think a G5 network would be in far more than 11 million homes. You are talking 62 fan bases spread over a the entire nation, with a member (in some cases more than one member) in many of the top 30 markets. At .25 cents a subscriber, my guess is you could feasibly get into as many homes as CBS-Sports Network or NBC-Sports. That's somewhere between 50 and 80 million homes. That's 240 million a year, minus expenses. I suspect you could run the network for less than half that. That's 140 million split between the G5---or 28 million each. That's twice what the CFP throws off to the G5 and still leaves a massive amount of inventory for the G5 conferences to sell through their typical channels.

If each conference gave the G5 network 5 games, it would barely dent their income from other networks---yet the G5 network would have 25 games to show in season one. I think its a viable plan---the issue is going to be getting the schools to agree on a monetary split since the current market value for each conferences games appears to be different.

This makes a lot of sense, and could help close the money gap a little too. I hope someone with influence is thinking along these lines.

I think our commissioner along with Aresco, are 2 of the more savvy in the G5 when it comes to media deals. Our arrangement with ASN is in it's infancy and that may be the entry point for this G5 idea. They were successful in distributing inventory to both major satellite providers and several cable companies. They should have the knowledge and contacts to create something, even if it's leasing an RSN for a start-up G5 network.
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RE: CBS Sports Net to air MAC games
I love being with Fox, but we can't have the rest of our games aired by the ASN. We have to make some money. We still need another tie.

We need to look at other networks. I'm sure NBC Sports is a target, but we need to try and expand our brand beyond just the obvious choices. I think TNT and TBS could be interested. Turner Broadcasting owns both, and they have aired college football games in the past. I doubt they would offer evening kickoffs, but it isn't like they are playing quality programs on Saturday afternoons. A Saturday afternoon C-USA game of the week on TBS or TNT would be nice.

Thoughts?
06-03-2015 05:56 PM
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RE: CBS Sports Net to air MAC games
(06-03-2015 05:56 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  I love being with Fox, but we can't have the rest of our games aired by the ASN. We have to make some money. We still need another tie.

We need to look at other networks. I'm sure NBC Sports is a target, but we need to try and expand our brand beyond just the obvious choices. I think TNT and TBS could be interested. Turner Broadcasting owns both, and they have aired college football games in the past. I doubt they would offer evening kickoffs, but it isn't like they are playing quality programs on Saturday afternoons. A Saturday afternoon C-USA game of the week on TBS or TNT would be nice.

Thoughts?

I personally don't see Turner being involved. Turner seems to gravitate towards big events.
  • The Sunday MLB games they carry in the 2nd half of the year I believe were more forced on them so they could retain a role televising some MLB postseason games. They used to televise non-exclusive Sunday MLB for the entire year, now they start in July.
  • The only golf event they currently carry is the early round & early weekend day coverage of the PGA Championship, a major.
  • They don't carry any NCAA regular season basketball (the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic appears to have ended), but went all-in for the NCAA tournament
  • The NBA regular season coverage they have are exclusive games with few exceptions, unlike ESPN where there are local & regional networks who coexist (ABC games are exclusives). They are essentially the NBA's top rightsholder during the regular season.

FOX now pools all of their games (30 of them) into one pile, instead of 20 for primary national platforms (FSN, FS1, formerly F/X) and 10 for FOX College Sports. I could see them wanting CBSSN's right package, maybe bumping themselves up to 40 selections or just staying at 30, with some on FS2, and then ASN taking on the rest.
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RE: CBS Sports Net to air MAC games
(06-03-2015 06:32 PM)mattsarz Wrote:  
(06-03-2015 05:56 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  I love being with Fox, but we can't have the rest of our games aired by the ASN. We have to make some money. We still need another tie.

We need to look at other networks. I'm sure NBC Sports is a target, but we need to try and expand our brand beyond just the obvious choices. I think TNT and TBS could be interested. Turner Broadcasting owns both, and they have aired college football games in the past. I doubt they would offer evening kickoffs, but it isn't like they are playing quality programs on Saturday afternoons. A Saturday afternoon C-USA game of the week on TBS or TNT would be nice.

Thoughts?

I personally don't see Turner being involved. Turner seems to gravitate towards big events.
  • The Sunday MLB games they carry in the 2nd half of the year I believe were more forced on them so they could retain a role televising some MLB postseason games. They used to televise non-exclusive Sunday MLB for the entire year, now they start in July.
  • The only golf event they currently carry is the early round & early weekend day coverage of the PGA Championship, a major.
  • They don't carry any NCAA regular season basketball (the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic appears to have ended), but went all-in for the NCAA tournament
  • The NBA regular season coverage they have are exclusive games with few exceptions, unlike ESPN where there are local & regional networks who coexist (ABC games are exclusives). They are essentially the NBA's top rightsholder during the regular season.

FOX now pools all of their games (30 of them) into one pile, instead of 20 for primary national platforms (FSN, FS1, formerly F/X) and 10 for FOX College Sports. I could see them wanting CBSSN's right package, maybe bumping themselves up to 40 selections or just staying at 30, with some on FS2, and then ASN taking on the rest.

Turner's sport package is pretty much exactly what FOX needs for FS1 along with the Big Ten contract. It makes sense why FOX went after Time Warner. They probably have in the contracts to be on those exclusive channels but the cross promotion would helped along with potentially moving those properties over eventually.
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