(09-11-2020 08:38 AM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  Comcast gives us BTN, SECN, PAC (SD), but no ACCN.

Given your location, it's obvious why you get the BTN, and the PAC is kind of like the B1G's sister conference, so that makes sense as well. Getting the SECN is probably just a testament to the general viewer interest in the SEC.

Here in Baton Rouge, I do not get the PACN or BTN on my tier of COX cable (the basic tier that almost everyone gets), I could get them but they would cost more.

(09-11-2020 08:59 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 08:53 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 07:01 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 06:33 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 05:12 AM)XLance Wrote:  You can't get the ACCN?

I'm sure I could get it, but I'm not going to pay extra for it.

Here in Baton Rouge, I did not have to pay extra for it. It was added to the same "tier" on my cable service as the SECN and other ESPN channels. Not sure why as interest in the ACC here is basically zero. But I'm not complaining, I like being able to see the games.

That sucks, as a lot of watchable games this fall will be on the ACCN, just because of who is playing and who isn't.

When I checked my channel guide just now on Spectrum, I discovered that I get SECN for some reason. But not ACCN or ESPNU. I would have to upgrade to get those, and I already have more sports than I could watch (or maybe that I should watch).

Well ... you now know you get the SECN!

Is there anything worth watching on that channel?

(09-11-2020 09:05 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 08:59 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 08:53 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 07:01 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 06:33 AM)ken d Wrote:  I'm sure I could get it, but I'm not going to pay extra for it.

Here in Baton Rouge, I did not have to pay extra for it. It was added to the same "tier" on my cable service as the SECN and other ESPN channels. Not sure why as interest in the ACC here is basically zero. But I'm not complaining, I like being able to see the games.

That sucks, as a lot of watchable games this fall will be on the ACCN, just because of who is playing and who isn't.

When I checked my channel guide just now on Spectrum, I discovered that I get SECN for some reason. But not ACCN or ESPNU. I would have to upgrade to get those, and I already have more sports than I could watch (or maybe that I should watch).

Well ... you now know you get the SECN!

Is there anything worth watching on that channel?

Truthfully, usually not. The SEC usually dumps the worst game possible on the SECN. If a 3-5 Tennessee team is playing Coastal Carolina or if 2-4 Missouri is playing Central Arkansas, you will find it on the SECN. The typical SECN game is a close to the bottom of the standings SEC team vs a soft OOC team. You rarely even get two bad SEC teams on there.

The other conference networks usually try to put a decent game, or at least one with a marquee team, on their networks, but not the SEC. The dregs get dumped there.

I guess it's a testament to how popular the SEC is that it's network is the most successful despite that. And no, I don't even bother to check what other sports are on at other times of the year, only care about football.

(09-11-2020 01:26 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 09:05 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 08:59 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 08:53 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(09-11-2020 07:01 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  Here in Baton Rouge, I did not have to pay extra for it. It was added to the same "tier" on my cable service as the SECN and other ESPN channels. Not sure why as interest in the ACC here is basically zero. But I'm not complaining, I like being able to see the games.

That sucks, as a lot of watchable games this fall will be on the ACCN, just because of who is playing and who isn't.

When I checked my channel guide just now on Spectrum, I discovered that I get SECN for some reason. But not ACCN or ESPNU. I would have to upgrade to get those, and I already have more sports than I could watch (or maybe that I should watch).

Well ... you now know you get the SECN!

Is there anything worth watching on that channel?

Truthfully, usually not. The SEC usually dumps the worst game possible on the SECN. If a 3-5 Tennessee team is playing Coastal Carolina or if 2-4 Missouri is playing Central Arkansas, you will find it on the SECN. The typical SECN game is a close to the bottom of the standings SEC team vs a soft OOC team. You rarely even get two bad SEC teams on there.

The other conference networks usually try to put a decent game, or at least one with a marquee team, on their networks, but not the SEC. The dregs get dumped their.

I guess it's a testament to how popular the SEC is that it's network is the most successful despite that. And no, I don't even bother to check what other sports are on, only care about football.

The SECN was a cash cow under the subscription model. It was ESPN's way of making sure they had access to the top SEC T2 games and was as much a payoff to the SEC as the LHN was to Texas. The difference is that at least ESPN and the SEC made decent money on it.

I strongly suspect that the SEC's new deal with ESPN will utilize even more content now that T1 is in the hands of Disney and that ESPN+ will monetize the best of the game left over after T2 material is exhausted and that the SECN will linger with a lowball game per week watched only by the most diehard of alumni of the teams involved.

The only thing that made the SECN truly worth its cost was the extra basketball that we would not see otherwise, and of course baseball/softball which is always fun to watch for those of us old enough to have loved diamond sports. We also watch SEC gymnastics on the channel. The 30 for 30 segments are solid and the History of the SEC series was phenomenal for the interviews alone if not the old still shots and footage of games from my childhood and antiquity.

I think the SECN special programming will outlive the channel and eventually be part of the material available to stream. I give conference networks another 5 to 10 years before all of the games are streamed that otherwise might have been aired on the channel. I figure we will have SECNews, SECwrapup, some kind of revision of coaches shows, specials on the schools and the minor sports still offered in some fashion as there is interest in such.

When hoops is no longer under the NCAA ESPN will be better positioned to monetize that as well.

But, this is why I'm doubly glad the SEC has no equity in the Network. If they did they would share the loss, like the PAC and Big 10 will.