Guess i'll be listening to Dave even more now. I usually stream him while i'm watching anyhow, Oh well.

(03-19-2019 04:11 PM)newtiger Wrote:  

(03-19-2019 03:57 PM)mairving Wrote:  

(03-19-2019 03:52 PM)JRR_IV Wrote:  

(03-19-2019 03:43 PM)mairving Wrote:  

(03-19-2019 03:38 PM)JRR_IV Wrote:  I would bet ESPN would put us on channels where anyone can watch the game because we’ll have the number 1 recruit and could be pretty good next season. Hopefully only 3-5 of our games end up on ESPN+.

It begins in 2020-21. Wiseman will most assuredly not be here.

I’m stupid, but I believe the point will stil stand we’re a top 3 football program in the AAC and should be perennial top 3 in basketball. So I still believe it will be that way.

Read again...

Quote:The new contract also calls for some Saturday football games to be broadcast on ABC. Football, along with men's and women's basketball, will remain on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, but the majority of basketball games and a significant number of the football games will go to ESPN+.

That could mean the top 5 teams in football and basketball get the traditional route but everyone else goes to espn+

What they are after is subscribers. If they put the crap teams in the AAC against the crap teams in the AAC on ESPN+ and then put the top teams on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU they aren't going to get subscribers. I would imagine games like Memphis vs. Tulane, Memphis vs. ECU, Memphis vs. USF will all be on ESPN+ or they won't get a subscriber base.

Its no different than if we had a AAC network and had to pay $5-10 a month for that. I'll pay $10-15 a month to get all the games on TV. If you don't want to do that, go watch it at a bar. If you don't want to do that, go sit in your car and listen o the radio.

I used to have to do that all the time and home games were replayed at 10:30 on channel 10. If I wanted to go to a game at the sold out Coliseum, I'd get up that day and go out to the parking lot at the Coliseum and beg, then scalp, until I got what I wanted. Got all the way down on the floor once doing that, started with no ticket and $0. Life is just to easy these days.

(03-19-2019 04:28 PM)cmt Wrote:  Its no different than if we had a AAC network and had to pay $5-10 a month for that. I'll pay $10-15 a month to get all the games on TV. If you don't want to do that, go watch it at a bar. If you don't want to do that, go sit in your car and listen o the radio.

I used to have to do that all the time and home games were replayed at 10:30 on channel 10. If I wanted to go to a game at the sold out Coliseum, I'd get up that day and go out to the parking lot at the Coliseum and beg, then scalp, until I got what I wanted. Got all the way down on the floor once doing that, started with no ticket and $0. Life is just to easy these days.

Paying isn't the point to me as much as exposure. Being on ESPN+ will reduce our exposure greatly since it will only be available to subscribers. I expect maybe half or less of than half of Memphis fans will pay. Heck some older fans might not know how to get ESPN+ or how to get it to play on their TV.

(03-19-2019 04:11 PM)newtiger Wrote:  

(03-19-2019 03:57 PM)mairving Wrote:  

(03-19-2019 03:52 PM)JRR_IV Wrote:  

(03-19-2019 03:43 PM)mairving Wrote:  

(03-19-2019 03:38 PM)JRR_IV Wrote:  I would bet ESPN would put us on channels where anyone can watch the game because we’ll have the number 1 recruit and could be pretty good next season. Hopefully only 3-5 of our games end up on ESPN+.

It begins in 2020-21. Wiseman will most assuredly not be here.

I’m stupid, but I believe the point will stil stand we’re a top 3 football program in the AAC and should be perennial top 3 in basketball. So I still believe it will be that way.

Read again...

Quote:The new contract also calls for some Saturday football games to be broadcast on ABC. Football, along with men's and women's basketball, will remain on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, but the majority of basketball games and a significant number of the football games will go to ESPN+.

That could mean the top 5 teams in football and basketball get the traditional route but everyone else goes to espn+

Yeah that's what occurred to me as I read the article. Theres some crap basketball teams in this conference and a couple of crap football teams right now. For example, I don't think East Carolina will ever see anything but ESPN+ until they make a significant Improvement.

I hope we are not on ESPN+ a majority of games. If so that will really affect recruiting.

(03-19-2019 04:47 PM)Tigergary Wrote:  I hope we are not on ESPN+ a majority of games. If so that will really affect recruiting.

Yeah I hope not either because it would affect recruiting in my opinion or at least be used against us. At the end of the day, I think the best programs in the conference, UCF, Memphis, Houston, Cincinnati, and maybe even UConn because of their name, will see most of the games on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU. Just my feeling right now --

Plus there's no grant of rights in this new media deal. That may be important with the upcoming expiration of the Big 12 grant of rights deal in a few years in the Pac-12 media deal ending. In other words realignment may rear its head again.

(03-19-2019 03:28 PM)mairving Wrote:  

(03-19-2019 03:24 PM)FlyingTiger2016 Wrote:  

(03-19-2019 03:20 PM)mairving Wrote:  

(03-19-2019 03:13 PM)HornLakeTiger Wrote:  Comes out to about 7 million per school each year.

https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Dail...9/AAC.aspx

This part isn't great news...

Quote:The new contract also calls for some Saturday football games to be broadcast on ABC. Football, along with men's and women's basketball, will remain on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, but the majority of basketball games and a significant number of the football games will go to ESPN+.

That means that you will have to pay a separate subscription to watch those games. Subscription isn't expensive now but it will probably limit our exposure because a lot of people are not willing to pay. Currently they have 2M subscribers. It all depends on what else they start putting on ESPN+.

There's worst sports streaming sites than ESPN+. I wouldn't wish FloSports on anyone.

I am not saying it's bad. It's just the fact that people will have to pay a separate subscription than their TV subscription to watch it. That will mean less people will get to see us play.

True, but we will be on ESPN more this season thanks to Wiseman than we have been the last 8 years combined.

An NBC article on this said the conference's "marquee games" will be on ABC ESPN ESPN2 and ESPNU.

(03-19-2019 03:43 PM)mairving Wrote:  

(03-19-2019 03:38 PM)JRR_IV Wrote:  I would bet ESPN would put us on channels where anyone can watch the game because we’ll have the number 1 recruit and could be pretty good next season. Hopefully only 3-5 of our games end up on ESPN+.

It begins in 2020-21. Wiseman will most assuredly not be here.

NVM. Whatever #1 we replace him with, lol.

https://www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/co...ealignment

ESPN+ has been a success story so far for Disney. It's $5 per month or $50 per year. ESPN+ hit 1 million subscribers in its first 5 month last September https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/20/espn-str...nths.html.

And then hit 2 million subscribers last month. https://www.thewrap.com/espn-plus-stream...bscribers/

Like Mairving said, ESPN/Disney will definitely do all it can to force you to subscribe. So expect to have at least some must see football and basketball games on ESPN+ each season.

Disney is vying to defeat or be the main alternative to Netflix. Just today, Disney is completing its $70B purchase of 21st Century Fox, so it now owns 60% of Hulu. https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/03/19/...ntury-fox. The Disney+ streaming service starts later this year. So you will soon be able to buy a bundle and get all the ESPN live sports and archived content like the 30-for-30 series through ESPN+, Hulu and all the Disney networks and content through Disney+.

(03-19-2019 03:20 PM)mairving Wrote:  

(03-19-2019 03:13 PM)HornLakeTiger Wrote:  Comes out to about 7 million per school each year.

https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Dail...9/AAC.aspx

This part isn't great news...

Quote:The new contract also calls for some Saturday football games to be broadcast on ABC. Football, along with men's and women's basketball, will remain on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, but the majority of basketball games and a significant number of the football games will go to ESPN+.

That means that you will have to pay a separate subscription to watch those games. Subscription isn't expensive now but it will probably limit our exposure because a lot of people are not willing to pay. Currently they have 2M subscribers. It all depends on what else they start putting on ESPN+.

It's starting to grow on me, especially with the expanded fight coverage.