Through June 30?

We might be 1A by then. Don't we have to announce prior to June 30?

If i remember correctly, the NBCSN deal was announced in February or March 2012 and the odu vcu and ga state all peaceful out 2-3 months later.

(01-11-2017 04:23 PM)Potomac Wrote:  NBCSN is just the EPL soccer channel and NHL coverage, with some NASCAR sprinkled in.

I watch the EPL. NBCSN normally finishes with the EPL at 12:30 P.M. on Saturdays, allowing plenty of time for college sports. The last EPL game of the day, which is at 12:30 P.M. (5:30 P.M. local), normally is on NBC (broadcast). The NHL doesn't limit NBCSN's ability to show college sports on Saturdays either.

(01-12-2017 08:32 PM)JMU_Degenerate Wrote:  

(01-12-2017 06:48 PM)JackiePapers Wrote:  

(01-11-2017 08:26 PM)JMU_Degenerate Wrote:  Hate on CBS sports network vs NBC sports all you want but they are carrying the conferences we aspire to join.
Their conferences for basketball:
AAC
MAC
CUSA
+
Atlantic 10
Big East
Missouri Valley Conference
Mountain West Conference
Ohio Valley Conference
Patriot League

big east is on fox sports 1

Maybe I am wrong but i saw this:
http://www.cbssports.com/college-basketb...asketball/

The Big East has way more games on Fox Sports 1 than CBS SN, but it is on both channels. Out of Villanova's next ten Big East games, four will be on Fox (broadcast), four will be on Fox Sports 1, and two will be on CBS SN.

(01-16-2017 03:31 PM)Wear Purple Wrote:  This is a 1-yr late minute deal for the CAA championship game to be on CBSSN. Let's hope the Dukes are in it. I assume the rest of the tournament prior to the championship game will be either be televised via Comcast Sports Net or if not at all, it will be streamed live via caa.tv portal(s).

The First Round will be on caa.tv and the Quarterfinals and Semifinals will be on CSN.

So I'm watching this caa semifinal between Towson and charleston in the background and I overhear the announcer say in the final minute, something to the effect of "this is our final caa game of the season on CSN. We want to thank the caa for such a great relationship and we hope to keep it going."
It sounded like he was all but acknowledging that the caa may not be working with csn moving forward.

Fwiw, our tv deal with csn continues through the end of the women's tournament next Sunday and we also have a deal with ASN through the caa baseball championship tournament.

By the conclusion of the baseball season, the caa has no tv deal from that point forward. If you're wondering, a tv deal was already announced by this point in the year in 2012.

(03-05-2017 06:45 PM)Potomac Wrote:  So I'm watching this caa semifinal between Towson and charleston in the background and I overhear the announcer say in the final minute, something to the effect of "this is our final caa game of the season on CSN. We want to thank the caa for such a great relationship and we hope to keep it going."
It sounded like he was all but acknowledging that the caa may not be working with csn moving forward.

Fwiw, our tv deal with csn continues through the end of the women's tournament next Sunday and we also have a deal with ASN through the caa baseball championship tournament.

By the conclusion of the baseball season, the caa has no tv deal from that point forward. If you're wondering, a tv deal was already announced by this point in the year in 2012.

Good catch and thanks for sharing that. I am expecting (perhaps a bit optimistically I admit) an announcement in the coming months between the CAA and ESPN forging a partnership moving forward. And, I think it will be the absolutely best thing that could happen from a media perspective for the CAA. Especially with their reach via WatchESPN/ESPN-3.

I am 100% on board with an espn3 deal if and only if it involves all football and men's basketball home games for every conference member (even ooc). If they can get us every women's home game too, even better.

The point is more watchable games, not less.

Also, just a thought...with JMU having good-to-excellent schools/programs in Communications, Journalism, certainly SMAD, etc., I'd think the doors should be open for productions of lots of sports via a platform such as ESPN-3 given there are ample resources and interest. Volleyball and softball immediately come to mind. Baseball as well. FB, MBB, and WBB should be givens (IMO).

Side note, I see where D1AA FB programs Kennesaw State and Lafayette each are streaming their spring FB games via ESPN-3.

http://lsufootball.net/tvschedule.htm

https://jamesmadison.rivals.com/news/caa...gular-guy-

At the end of the academic year, the CAA’s media-rights contracts all expire. The commissioner said he’s looking for a rights-fee deal with new potential partners.

The CAA entered its final year of a five-year television-rights deal with the NBC Sports Network at the start of the 2016-17 academic year.

“It’s a minus because we don’t have anything in place definitively,” he said. “But it’s a really big plus for us because I think that we have a whole entrée of availability right in front of us.

“We’re able to then go to the open market as we talk to potential television entities, whether it be on the linear side or the digital side, about what the next step would be for us as a conference. I feel convinced going forward that we’re looking at some kind of hybrid situation of a linear deal and a digital deal.”

On the football side, he said James Madison’s championship season helped the conference gain exposure and value.

“Now, we’re looking at where [the new partner] would provide us the best exposure as a conference and also some kind of a rights-fee deal,” D’Antonio said. “Not an [Power] Five rights-fee deal, but something that might be beneficial to our conference.”

D’Antonio said he wants the deal to benefit football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball and the other sports the conference sponsors. He also said he wants the league to start embracing that mentality as well.

I don't want this to be buried in another thread about the ACC network.

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/3...t-sinclair

American Sports Network is no more after this month. This is disappointing because it helped to air a lot of FCS football games (including the CAA) within regions of the country that probably otherwise would've gone not televised.

Well whatever the CAA does moving forward, we know who one of our media partners won't be.

Conferences aired by ASN (for FB and/or BB) included:
AAC
Atlantic 10
Big South
CAA
CUSA
Horizon
Ivy League
MAC
OVC
Patriot
SoCon
Southland
Sunbelt
WAC

With all the cost cutting by TV this doesn't feel like a great time to be negotiating. Rights deals going to be less and less.

Agreed. I do not feel we will have to many suitors placing bids to cover CAA sports.

ESPN losing $$$ and slashing budgets due to the cord-cutting effects of cable can only mean one thing. The Cable Sports coverage bubble has burst. Smaller start-up companies like ASN will likely come and go for awhile but realistically, these smaller networks will die. Streaming revenue seems to be significantly lower than cable and I doubt it will ever be as high.

Collectively, these things, while also accounting for the P5 attempts at separation, means that mid-majors will soon only be broadcast when they play the P5. In a few years, younger people will grow up understanding the P5 as the only true representatives of college sports. Cable coverage has essentially created major leagues for college across the board. Cinderellas will continue to be rare and most of the country seems to not care about them until the tourney, so theres no need to show their regular season games.

But hey, streaming is killing traditional cable anyway and now unlimited satellite data is affordable so its only a matter of time until the point is moot. All TV will be streaming. ESPN3 is the future...well actually almost the present...

(03-12-2017 01:16 PM)nogretheogre Wrote:  In a few years, younger people will grow up understanding the P5 as the only true representatives of college sports. Cable coverage has essentially created major leagues for college across the board. Cinderellas will continue to be rare and most of the country seems to not care about them until the tourney, so theres no need to show their regular season games.

But hey, streaming is killing traditional cable anyway and now unlimited satellite data is affordable so its only a matter of time until the point is moot. All TV will be streaming. ESPN3 is the future...well actually almost the present...

I agree with most of what you said, and I deleted your first paragraph for spacing purposes. I would agree with the first sentence I bolded for football (for now). I still think there are enough mid-major schools that make noise in the dance that there is still hope for basketball, and we have seen the respect our (read: JMU) lax and softball teams get. Then again, those sports are not considered revenue generating, so that may be a moot point.

Regarding the second point, I would really like to see ESPN have some sort of ESPN3 only streaming subscription. They could then add the option to purchase the ACC and SEC networks for fans of those teams. They need to be adjust to the new reality that people are not going to plop down on their sofas and watch sports for hours on end (March Madness and NFL excepted), and that delivering sports "on the go" is going to be what helps keep the mighty ESPN vessel from hitting the iceberg.

If anyone has additional info or opinions please share them. I love talking about this stuff because I am a YUGE nerd.

http://footballscoop.com/news/youtube-ma...l-economy/

I don't know how comcast can justify charging $150-$200 a month for a package that offers the same channels that YouTube TV offers for $35 a month. How they haven't started dropping their prices drastically is beyond me. I get it, greed, but how much do they have to bleed before their executives get a reality check?

(03-13-2017 09:06 AM)Potomac Wrote:  I don't know how comcast can justify charging $150-$200 a month for a package that offers the same channels that YouTube TV offers for $35 a month. How they haven't started dropping their prices drastically is beyond me. I get it, greed, but how much do they have to bleed before their executives get a reality check?

Are they monitoring the situation over there?

(03-13-2017 09:06 AM)Potomac Wrote:  I don't know how comcast can justify charging $150-$200 a month for a package that offers the same channels that YouTube TV offers for $35 a month. How they haven't started dropping their prices drastically is beyond me. I get it, greed, but how much do they have to bleed before their executives get a reality check?

The ISPs still control things. You can pay YouTube TV $35 for access to the channels, but you'll have to pay Comcast or Verizon $90 to access the internet. You're back to the same or similar place.

You'd have to think satellite or cellular will disintermediate at some point. But that will not be without cost. Sucks, because you can clearly see a path to inexpensive "cable TV".

(03-13-2017 10:15 AM)Deez Nuts Wrote:  

(03-13-2017 09:06 AM)Potomac Wrote:  I don't know how comcast can justify charging $150-$200 a month for a package that offers the same channels that YouTube TV offers for $35 a month. How they haven't started dropping their prices drastically is beyond me. I get it, greed, but how much do they have to bleed before their executives get a reality check?

Are they monitoring the situation over there?

(03-13-2017 10:23 AM)PhillyDuke Wrote:  

(03-13-2017 09:06 AM)Potomac Wrote:  I don't know how comcast can justify charging $150-$200 a month for a package that offers the same channels that YouTube TV offers for $35 a month. How they haven't started dropping their prices drastically is beyond me. I get it, greed, but how much do they have to bleed before their executives get a reality check?

The ISPs still control things. You can pay YouTube TV $35 for access to the channels, but you'll have to pay Comcast or Verizon $90 to access the internet. You're back to the same or similar place.

You'd have to think satellite or cellular will disintermediate at some point. But that will not be without cost. Sucks, because you can clearly see a path to inexpensive "cable TV".

Comcast internet only was $49 a month when I had that. Very interested in Youtube TV

I haven't used it myself but I have friends who say they're happy with Playstation Vue. You also don't need a playstation system to use it by the way.