Comcast Local for all games
8/30 Miami (OH) at Ball St. 7pm
9/08 Ball St. at EMU 12pm
9/22 Howard at EMU 3:30pm
10/27 WMU at EMU 3pm
11/16 EMU at CMU 7pm
11/24 Ball St. at NIU 4pm
The Ball St.-NIU game might be a simulcast of the Comcast SportsNet Chicago feed.
Matts preempted my follow on post with his update of the other three games not involving BSU.
Bottom line, fans of BSU and even EMU will get to watch most of their teams games on TV.
One knows that MAC TV is on a roll when Howard (D-IAA) @ EMU is on TV!!
There are SO MANY television slots out there to be filled that the networks/stations need to grab what is not already committed to other networks.
As MAC fans know, a LOT of MAC teams are on the road in September playing those OOC games (for $$$) and those games aren't available to Comcast-Local, FSN-Ohio, etc.
8 EMU games are confirmed for TV.
UofM will be televised by someone (Big Ten network?), Toledo (?), and Pitt and Vandy left to be determined.
I'd guess that EMU fans in southeast MI will be able to see say 9 or 10 games from their tube (if they have ESPNU + Comcast-Local).
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From the EMU website:
Eastern Michigan University 2007 Football Schedule
Day Date Opponent Time
Saturday Sept. 1 at Pittsburgh 6 p.m.
Saturday Sept. 8 BALL STATE* (BAND DAY) (Comcast Local TV) Noon
Saturday Sept. 15 at Northern Illinois* (ESPN Regional TV) 11 a.m.
Saturday Sept. 22 HOWARD UNIVERSITY (Comcast Local TV) 3:30 p.m.
Saturday Sept. 29 at Vanderbilt 6 p.m.
Saturday Oct. 6 at Michigan
Saturday Oct. 13 at Ohio* (ESPN+ TV) Noon
Friday Oct. 19 NORTHWESTERN (ESPNU TV) 7 p.m.
Saturday Oct. 27 WESTERN MICHIGAN* (HOMECOMING) (Comcast Local TV) 3 p.m.
Saturday Nov. 3 at Toledo* 7 p.m.
Friday Nov. 9 BOWLING GREEN* (ESPNU TV) 7 p.m.
Friday Nov. 16 at Central Michigan* (Comcast Local TV) 7 p.m.
mattsarz Wrote:11/24 Ball St. at NIU 4pm
The Ball St.-NIU game might be a simulcast of the Comcast SportsNet Chicago feed.
It would have to be because i doubt Comcast Local would pay to send its own crew out to DeKalb to televise a game that's already being televised. Last year a simulcast of NIU at Ball State on Comcast Local was on Comcast SportsNet Chicago so NIU fans in Illinois could see the game. Didn't that work out great because Garrett Wolfe tore it up for 353 yards rushing. I bet there was some sort of agreement between CL and CSN Chicago for that game that required CSN Chicago to repay the favor next season.
emu steve Wrote:Bottom line, fans of BSU and even EMU will get to watch most of their teams games on TV.
One knows that MAC TV is on a roll when Howard (D-IAA) @ EMU is on TV!!
I never thought the day would come this soon when teams like Ball State, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, and Akron would have half or more than half of their games on TV.
I noticed WMU does not seem to be getting much love this year from Comcast Local or the MAC by not having any MAC Games of the Week.
What could help MAC game television ratings even more is if Comcast stands its ground and doesn't cave into the Big Ten Network by making the channel available on the basic cable package. No one besides Big Ten fans are going to pay for the channel so if its only available as an added cost i could see a lot of people having no choice but to watch MAC games.
Let me add that the MAC has TV doubleheaders widely available throughout Ohio and MI with cable. DirecTV or any of their sports or GamePlan packages are not required.
Doubleheaders qualify as 'critical mass' to me.
A Redhawk fan can watch CMU/BSU and then MIA@KSU on Oct 6; an Ohio fan can watch their game vs. EMU and then watch BG@MIA on Oct 13.
October 6 - Saturday
*Central Michigan at Ball State // 12 p.m. ESPN Regional Television - MAC Game of the Week
*Northern Illinois at Temple
*Akron at Western Michigan
*Ohio at Buffalo
*Miami at Kent State // 3 p.m. Fox SportsNet Ohio
Eastern Michigan at Michigan
Liberty at Toledo
Bowling Green at Boston College
October 13 - Saturday
*Eastern Michigan at Ohio // 12 p.m. ESPN Regional Television - MAC Game of the Week
*Western Michigan at Northern Illinois // 3 p.m. (Central) Comcast SportsNet Chicago
*Temple at Akron
*Bowling Green at Miami // 3 p.m. Fox SportsNet Ohio
*Toledo at Buffalo
Western Kentucky at Ball State
Army at Central Michigan
Kent State at Ohio State
The MAC front office has said 53 of our games will be televised........so far I count 45 from the TV schedule released to the public.
ESPN
ESPNU
ERT
CSTV
FSN Ohio
Comcast Chicago
Comcast Local
Big Ten Network
Breakdown by school.......
NIU (8)
EMU (8)
Akron (8)
Miami (7)
Bowling Green (7)
Ball State (6)
WMU (5)
CMU (5)
Kent State (4)
Toledo (3)
Temple (3)
Ohio (3)
Buffalo (2)
Kit-Cat Wrote:The MAC front office has said 53 of our games will be televised........so far I count 45 from the TV schedule released to the public.
ESPN
ESPNU
ERT
CSTV
FSN Ohio
Comcast Chicago
Comcast Local
Big Ten Network
Breakdown by school.......
NIU (8)
EMU (8)
Akron (8)
Miami (7)
Bowling Green (7)
Ball State (6)
WMU (5)
CMU (5)
Kent State (4)
Toledo (3)
Temple (3)
Ohio (3)
Buffalo (2)
If you include the NIU game at Idaho on the Go Vandals Network, which i believe is being counted, then that is 9 for NIU. Also, NIU vs. Wisconsin will be on TV but because the game is so far from now we may not see it picked up on TV until October comes. That would make 10 games for NIU.
epasnoopy Wrote:Kit-Cat Wrote:The MAC front office has said 53 of our games will be televised........so far I count 45 from the TV schedule released to the public.
ESPN
ESPNU
ERT
CSTV
FSN Ohio
Comcast Chicago
Comcast Local
Big Ten Network
Breakdown by school.......
NIU (8)
EMU (8)
Akron (8)
Miami (7)
Bowling Green (7)
Ball State (6)
WMU (5)
CMU (5)
Kent State (4)
Toledo (3)
Temple (3)
Ohio (3)
Buffalo (2)
If you include the NIU game at Idaho on the Go Vandals Network, which i believe is being counted, then that is 9 for NIU. Also, NIU vs. Wisconsin will be on TV but because the game is so far from now we may not see it picked up on TV until October comes. That would make 10 games for NIU.
I didn't catch that idaho game in the WAC listings before......my oversight.
Why are you playing Idaho of all schools anyway?
OU is playing Wyoming but they are a very established FBS program and the first game is @ Peden Stadium.
Kit-Cat Wrote:epasnoopy Wrote:Kit-Cat Wrote:The MAC front office has said 53 of our games will be televised........so far I count 45 from the TV schedule released to the public.
ESPN
ESPNU
ERT
CSTV
FSN Ohio
Comcast Chicago
Comcast Local
Big Ten Network
Breakdown by school.......
NIU (8)
EMU (8)
Akron (8)
Miami (7)
Bowling Green (7)
Ball State (6)
WMU (5)
CMU (5)
Kent State (4)
Toledo (3)
Temple (3)
Ohio (3)
Buffalo (2)
If you include the NIU game at Idaho on the Go Vandals Network, which i believe is being counted, then that is 9 for NIU. Also, NIU vs. Wisconsin will be on TV but because the game is so far from now we may not see it picked up on TV until October comes. That would make 10 games for NIU.
I didn't catch that idaho game in the WAC listings before......my oversight.
Why are you playing Idaho of all schools anyway?
OU is playing Wyoming but they are a very established FBS program and the first game is @ Peden Stadium.
I dunno, maybe it's because we were able to get a 1-for-1 deal with them. Maybe we wanted to schedule an easier 1-A opponent on our OOC schedule after already having Iowa, Wisconsin, SIU, and Navy on our schedule (all of which are good teams that made it to the postseason). Or, maybe once we realized we had to schedule 5 OOC games this season because of Temple being added Idaho was the best opponent we could get for a 1-for-1 deal. I guess only our AD would be able to truly answer your question.
Kit-Cat Wrote:Temple (3)
So much for Comcast 8...
Two points:
1). 3 is not the final number for Temple.
Temple.edu has 4 games listed for TV already and the Penn State game is NOT noted yet. That makes at least 5.
2). Is it known that Comcast in Philly isn't doing games??
Do remember guys it is still mid-July.
Also, remember the poster above indicated that he has tallied 45 of the 53 games the MAC office says will be telecast.
I don't know if this 8 count includes a lot of Big Ten games which aren't yet listed but will be televised - network or time not yet known.
I'm sure those schools with only 3 games will see their number rise to at least 5 or 6.
The 53 games quoted by the MAC office are MAC home games (MAC team vs. MAC team or OOC team at MAC team), not MAC teams plaing at OOC venues. So you can't just add up all of the games currently listed for TV because many of them are not MAC-contracted games (like CMU at Purdue or NIU at Idaho). When it's all said and done though, there will probably be 60-70 games where a MAC team plays on TV.
CN8 and Comcast Sportsnet games for Temple are always announced later than all the other broadcasts before the season.
templefan1 Wrote:CN8 and Comcast Sportsnet games for Temple are always announced later than all the other broadcasts before the season.
Exactly. I don't think CN-8 has made their sports schedule yet.
RobertN Wrote:templefan1 Wrote:CN8 and Comcast Sportsnet games for Temple are always announced later than all the other broadcasts before the season.
Exactly. I don't think CN-8 has made their sports schedule yet.
Nope they haven't. CN8 televises a bunch of games from the Ivy League and the new CAA football league and none of those games have been announced either.
epasnoopy Wrote:If you include the NIU game at Idaho on the Go Vandals Network, which i believe is being counted, then that is 9 for NIU. Also, NIU vs. Wisconsin will be on TV but because the game is so far from now we may not see it picked up on TV until October comes. That would make 10 games for NIU.
The Comcast showing the NIU games, is that the local one that shows the Chicago Wolves games? Or is it the other Chicago Comcast station that us with satellite can get? I'm interested because I'd like to know if I'll get the Kent State & NIU game on Directv or not.
Polish Hammer Wrote:epasnoopy Wrote:If you include the NIU game at Idaho on the Go Vandals Network, which i believe is being counted, then that is 9 for NIU. Also, NIU vs. Wisconsin will be on TV but because the game is so far from now we may not see it picked up on TV until October comes. That would make 10 games for NIU.
The Comcast showing the NIU games, is that the local one that shows the Chicago Wolves games? Or is it the other Chicago Comcast station that us with satellite can get? I'm interested because I'd like to know if I'll get the Kent State & NIU game on Directv or not.
There's only one Comcast SportsNet Chicago channel. Regionally, the channel can be see in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana. If you have DirectTV and get CSN Chicago as part of your TV package then you will be able to watch the game.
I've never seen a Chicago Wolves game on the channel, but then again i don't follow hockey so they could be showing Wolves games and i don't know about it. CSN Chicago shows a lot of Bulls, Cubs, and White Sox games.