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IrememberDukester
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| 07/08/2007 11:56 AM |
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Has the local cable company made any announcement regarding carrying the Big 10 Network?
Many graduates of Big 10 schools residing in the metro area, you don't have to be just an Iowa fan to want to know whats going on.
I believe it will only be a matter of a few years and the Big 12 may go in this same direction, much smaller tv markets but just the same I believe they are watching with interest how this pans out.
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Logan
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| 07/09/2007 9:24 AM |
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| in my opinion a cable company can't go wrong airing more college football. |
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Tim in Omaha
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| 07/10/2007 11:30 AM |
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Time Warner in Ohio and Insight Communications in Kentucky are in negotiations with the Big Ten Network in hopes of carrying the channel by the time it launches in August.
The BTN will televise more than 35 Big Ten football games and more than 105 Big Ten men's basketball games in addition to other Big Ten programming. At least those first two Ohio State football games - possibly more - will be part of this season's BTN schedule, the league announced Tuesday. But currently, the channel is only available locally on DirecTV satellite systems, which will carry the network nationwide on its basic package. (The Ohio State-Michigan game is not likely to end up on the Big Ten Network because ABC gets first choice of Big Ten football games, according to its 10-year contract with the league.)
Time Warner wants to carry the Big Ten network, but on a digital sports tier, where customers who want the channel would pay an extra monthly fee. The Big Ten Network, however, wants to be on expanded basic cable in Big Ten markets, which would increase its revenue. The New York Times reported that the BTN's per subscriber fees are $1.10 per month, meaning that Time Warner would have to pay about $700,000 per month for the 640,000 southwest Ohio subscribers.
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by Associated Press
Jul 2, 2007, 14:54
CHICAGO
The Big Ten Network will launch Aug. 30 with a highlight show and follow two days later with its first football games.
The network will go on the air at 7 p.m. Central time on a Thursday. On Saturday, there will be regional coverage of Appalachian State-Michigan, Youngstown State-Ohio State, Florida International-Penn State and Northeastern-Northwestern.
The conference Monday also announced distribution commitments for more than 75 local cable systems serving viewers in the eight states in which there are Big Ten schools.
"We're well on our way toward ensuring that roughly half the subscribers to smaller cable systems across the Midwest have better access to their favorite Big Ten schools and teams than anytime in history," Big Ten Network president Mark Silverman said the network in a statement.
The Big Ten also has an agreement with DirecTV. The conference has been feuding with Comcast over whether the cable provider, which has 5.7 million subscribers in the eight states, will carry the network.
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IrememberDukester
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| 07/18/2007 4:53 PM |
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Big Ten Network announces broadcasters
From the Big Ten Network:
The Big Ten Network today announced that Thom Brennaman and Charles Davis will be the lead football broadcast team when the network goes live this fall.
Brennaman and Davis called FOX Sports' coverage of the 2007 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl and BCS National Championship game.
The second on-air team will be Wayne Larrivee and former Northwestern and Chicago Bear defensive back Chris Martin. The network's studio team will be host Dave Revsine, former Indiana coach Gerry DiNardo and retired Denver Bronco and Illinois fullback Howard Griffith. Former Minnesota head coach Glen Mason will do color commentary for a third broadcast team. A play-by-play partner for Mason has yet to be named.
Brennaman, Davis and University of Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez teamed up for one of college football's most memorable games, the 2007 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl between underdog Boise State and the University of Oklahoma. The epic game, won by Boise State 43-42 in overtime, featured last-second heroics and head-spinning trick plays, and concluded with the star running back proposing to his cheerleader girlfriend on national television.
The following week, the same trio also called the action for FOX Sports as the University of Florida defeated Ohio State University in the BCS National Championship Game, 41-14. Brennaman also led FOX's broadcast coverage of the Cotton Bowl from 2000 to 2006.
Since joining FOX Sports at its inception in 1994, the Ohio-raised Brennaman has served as a National Football League and Major League Baseball play-by-play announcer. His MLB experience includes regular-season Division and League Championship Series games for FOX Sports. Brennaman's professional credits also include serving as the first television voice for the Arizona Diamondbacks (1998-2006), the Chicago Cubs (1990-1995) and he is in his first year calling Cincinnati Reds games with his father, Marty, a 2000 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.
Davis will serve as the lead game analyst on the Big Ten Network. Davis most recently worked as lead analyst for TBS' football coverage of the Big 12 and Pac-10 conferences. He is also a sideline reporter for the NBA on TNT, a college football analyst for the NFL Network and an analyst of CBS' coverage of the NCAA basketball tournament.
DiNardo joins BTN after spending the last two years as a college football analyst with ESPN and ESPN Radio's College GameDay alongside Revsine. DiNardo's coaching career includes head football coaching stints at Vanderbilt and Louisiana State University. An All-American at Notre Dame, he was a member of the school's 1973 national championship team.
Griffith joins Revsine and DiNardo in the Big Ten Network studios. Griffith set an NCAA record with eight rushing touchdowns in a single game during his playing days at the University of Illinois. A retired NFL fullback, he played for two seasons each with the St. Louis Rams and the Carolina Panthers before joining the Denver Broncos in 1997. Griffith was part of two Super Bowl Championship teams and was a major contributor during the Broncos' Super Bowl XXXII win.
A 35-year coaching veteran, Mason joins the network after serving as head football coach for the University of Minnesota for the last 10 seasons. Under Mason, the Gophers won three consecutive bowl games and made bowl appearances in seven of the past eight seasons, a school record. Mason previously held head coaching positions at Kansas and Kent State and was an assistant at Illinois, Ohio State, Ball State, Iowa State and Allegheny College. Mason has also been named coach of the year in three different conferences: the Big Ten, Big Eight and MAC. He was a linebacker at Ohio State, where he was a letter-winner on the Buckeyes' 1970 Big Ten championship team.
Larrivee will partner with analyst Martin. Larrivee is currently the play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Bulls on WGN-TV and the radio play-by-play announcer for the Green Pay Packers. Previously, he called games for the Chicago Bears for 14 seasons and has called games for the Chicago Cubs and Kansas City Chiefs. Larrivee also has announced Big Ten football and basketball for ESPN. He has won several awards, including a Midwest Emmy in 1997 for Bulls play-by-play announcing, the Illinois Sportscaster of the Year award by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters in 1998, and is a four-time winner of the Silver Dome Award for Best Radio Football Play-by-Play from the Illinois Broadcasters Association.
Martin will team with Larrivee to provide game-day analysis, as well as some studio analysis during the week. A member of Northwestern's 1995 Rose Bowl, Martin played one season with the Chicago Bears. He spent the last two years as a college football analyst for ESPN Regional covering Big Ten, Big East and Mid-American Conference games.
The official launch of the Big Ten Network comes August 30, two days before the kick-off of the 2007 Big Ten college football season. Big Ten Tonight, a nightly studio show hosted by Revsine, will preview the upcoming season and closely examine all of the weekend's conference teams in action. The network will air more live events in HD than any other new network in television history. The network recently announced a commitment to gender equality by 2010, when all Big Ten Network-controlled television, Internet and mobile media will provide equal men's and women's athletic coverage.
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Logan
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| 07/18/2007 5:19 PM |
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| i loved brennaman when he was calling cubs games around 15 years ago. |
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| 07/21/2007 12:23 AM |
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| We can't even get the NFL Network in Lincoln, why would Time Warner Cable bother with the Big 11 network? They hate their customers and see them as an annoyance and an open checkbook. |
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IrememberDukester
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| 08/13/2007 7:57 PM |
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Here's a nuts and bolts overview of the Big Ten Network, a national television network that will deliver to Iowans more programming involving the University of Iowa on an annual basis than any other network in television history.
What is it?
The Big Ten Network is a new television network that will produce for distribution to a national audience programming featuring exclusively activities of the 11 institutions that are a part of the Big Ten Conference.
The Big Ten Network will go live on August 30, 2007. In its first year of existence, the Network will produce and/or distribute live coverage of as many as 400 intercollegiate athletics events in addition to select Big Ten Conference championships and hours of original programming. It will also offer more than 660 hours of programming that will showcase the academic excellence and ground-breaking research that is happening regularly on the 11 campuses.
Specifically, the Big Ten Network will produce and distribute live in high definition television, among others, more than 35 football games, more than 100 men's basketball games, more than 60 women's basketball games and more than 20 women's volleyball matches. The Big Ten Network will also offer a series of women's field hockey matches, wrestling matches, women's and men's soccer matches, baseball games and softball games.
Specific to Iowa, the Big Ten Network will likely broadcast at least 60 events featuring UI athletic teams including up to five UI football games, as many as 20 UI men's basketball games, as many as six UI women's basketball games, and as many as three UI wrestling events.
Specific to Iowa, the Big Ten Network will likely broadcast at least 60 events featuring UI athletic teams including up to five UI football games, as many as 20 UI men's basketball games, as many as six UI women's basketball games, and as many as three UI wrestling events.
The UI will also be provided up to 60 hours for programming about the outstanding students, faculty, staff, alumni, academic programs, cultural programs and ground-breaking research that makes the University of Iowa one of the nations' leading public institutions of higher education.
The Network will also produce a nightly "ESPN SportsCenter"-like news show in addition to broadcasting "Classic" games, documentaries and features.
How is it different than what was in place a year ago?
The Big Ten Network will significantly increase the quantity of intercollegiate athletics events featuring Big Ten teams available on television and dramatically increases the size of the audience that has access to the broadcasts over what was available a year ago.
In the sports of football and men's basketball, the Network will take events that a year ago would have been televised on a local or regional basis and will make them available to friends, fans, students, alumni, parents of students, faculty and staff living anywhere in the United States.
In the sport of women's basketball, the Big Ten Network increases by six-fold the number of events televised compared to a year ago and, unlike last year when the events produced for broadcast were available on a limited basis geographically, all 60 women's basketball games to be produced in 2007-08 will be available to a national audience.
In the sports of women's volleyball, women's field hockey, men's and women's soccer, softball and baseball, the Big Ten Network will offer the first regular season series of live televised events in these sports in the history of the Big Ten.
With respect to the opportunities for the institution, each institution was provided three minutes of "institutional message time" within each broadcast a year ago that involved their institution. The University of Iowa had access to 69 minutes of statewide and/or regional exposure as a result of "institutional message time." The Big Ten Network alone will offer the UI 60 hours of national television exposure.
What are the benefits for the University of Iowa?
The Big Ten Network will provide the University of Iowa unprecedented national television exposure for all of its intercollegiate athletics programs in addition to hours of national television time to use to promote the excellence of the institution, its academic programs, its cultural programs, its research, and its students, faculty, staff and alumni.
The Big Ten Network will provide more programming involving the University of Iowa than any other television network has at any time. In Iowa, the Big Ten Network is really the University of Iowa Network.
With respect to the opportunities for the institution, each institution was provided three minutes of "institutional message time" within each broadcast a year ago that involved their institution. The University of Iowa had access to 69 minutes of statewide and/or regional exposure as a result of "institutional message time." The Big Ten Network alone will offer the UI 60 hours of national television exposure.
The Big Ten Network will provide valuable assistance to the UI in terms of student, faculty, staff and student-athlete recruitment. The Network will also help to build a stronger relationship between friends of the UI and fans of the UI's intercollegiate athletics program and the UI itself and, as these relationships strengthen, the opportunities to positively impact sales of tickets to events, philanthropic support of the institution, and the purchase of officially licensed merchandise grows as well.
The Big Ten Network will provide financial resources to the UI that will allow the UI Department of Intercollegiate Athletics - which is 100 percent self-supporting (receives no General Fund support annually) - to continue to provide the highest quality experience for the more than 650 students and student-athletes who are engaged annually in its programs and operations.
Iowans will benefit from having access to live television coverage of more intercollegiate athletics events featuring teams from the UI and the other 10 Big Ten Conference institutions than ever before in the league's history including access to all UI football and men's basketball events not selected for broadcast by the Big Ten Conference's other television partners.
Access to the Network by Iowans
Representatives of the Big Ten Network are currently in the process of securing distribution of the Network. They are offering the Network to every cable system and satellite television provider in the nation.
In the eight states where Big Ten Conference institutions are located, it is the position of the Big Ten Network and its member institutions that the programming available on the Network is compelling enough to warrant inclusion of the Network on a cable television or a satellite television systems basic level of service.
Outside the geographic footprint of the Big Ten, the Network invites distributors to move the Network to a "third tier," often as one of several like networks "bundled together" for a modest additional monthly fee.
On a national basis, the Network has non-exclusive agreements with DirecTV - the nation's largest satellite television provider with more than 15 million subscribers - and AT&T's new "U-Verse." In each case, the Network will be available on the basic level of service.
Across the state more than 30 cable television systems have agreed to include the Network on its basic level of service beginning with the Network's launch in late August. All of these systems are locally-owned and operated and many are managed by municipalities: Local decision-makers have made a decision that is a good one for their friends, their neighbors...Iowans.
This was way to much information to pass up!
Besides it's my thread and I'll do what I want with it!
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egami
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| 08/14/2007 7:31 AM |
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| No one cares about your cut and paste spam. And it's not your thread...just ask Dman. |
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Logan
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| 08/14/2007 1:09 PM |
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| i may have to get it just for the wrestling. |
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IrememberDukester
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| 08/14/2007 9:10 PM |
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Posted By egami on 08/14/2007 7:31 AM
No one cares about your cut and paste spam. And it's not your thread...just ask Dman.
Don't read it if you dont like it!
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Arbitrator
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| 08/14/2007 9:24 PM |
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Thanks for the updates on the BTN.
I have called COX Communications and been told they are working on adding it.
Time will only tell!
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Logan
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| 08/15/2007 9:56 AM |
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| gotta love cox. not as much as queerb1yankme though. |
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Tim in Omaha
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| 08/16/2007 9:38 AM |
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By Pete Fiutak
CollegeFootballNews.com
Posted Aug 16, 2007
The first day of programming on the Big Ten Network has just been announced …
- 11 am: The symbolic launch time was going to be 10 am, but like the misnamed league itself, it starts at 11.
- 11 am to 11:01 am: Great Ohio State Performances vs. the SEC
- 11:01 am to 11:05 am: Ads for the Big Ten Network
- 11:05 am to 11:30 am: Dr. Phil: Helping Michigan State cope with living in Michigan’s shadow
- 11:30 am to 12:30 pm: The Jim Tressel Variety Hour. Along with his always edgy monologue, watch as the Buckeye coach performs magic, does a little soft-shoe, and joins Sanjaya to bring down the house with a rendition of “Besame Mucho.”
- 12:30 to 12:31: Great Moments in Non-Revenue Sports History
- 12:31 to 12:40: Ads for the Big Ten Network
- 12:40 to 12:42: Michigan Running Backs and the NFL
- 12:42 to 1: Ads for the Big Ten Network
- 1 to 2: Flavor of Zook
- 2 to 3: The BTN True Hollywood Story: Iowa and the 1986 Rose Bowl
- 3 to 4: The Joe Paterno Party Machine. The legendary head coach welcomes Common, Hot Dollar, and Maroon 5
- 4 to 5: Pat Fitzgerald is 35 … and Coaching
- 5 to 6: Battle of the Mediocre Former Head Coaches. Watch as John Gutekunst, John Mackovic, Jim Colletto, Bobby Williams and Don Morton compete in media relations, film study, booster kissing and maintaining institutional control.
- 6 to 7: What Not To Wear: Stacy and Clinton raid Joe Tiller’s wardrobe and subject him to the 360-degree mirror in an attempt to makeover the Purdue head coach
- 7 to 7:30: Ads for the Big Ten Network
- 7:30 to 8: Top Chef: Trying to recreate the Wisconsin experience with brats, La Bamba burritos and Parthenon gyros
- 8 pm to 11 am: A loop of the Total Gym infomercial, hosted by Chuck Norris and Christie Brinkley
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Logan
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| 08/16/2007 1:53 PM |
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| LOL. now that was funny. |
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| 08/16/2007 2:41 PM |
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I didn't know collegefootballnews.com had it in them. I thought they were all about riding the fence........this team could be awsome, but then again, they have some weaknesses that could prevent them from having a steller season. Stay tuned as we change our opinion weekly.
Funny little diddy though. Props to them for lightening things up a bit.
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IrememberDukester
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| 08/16/2007 10:39 PM |
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sign me up.
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Tim in Omaha
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| 08/29/2007 11:32 AM |
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I was in Chicago Monday and Tuesday and this Comcast VS the big 10/11 Network is getting crazy. Comcast ran at least 5 spots on the Monday Night football game how the Big Ten Network is lying to gain more customers and the Big Ten Network is telling people that “ If you want to see all of the Big 10 Games this year then you need to get the Big ten network added to Comcast.
The Big 10 games available during this regular football season on Comcast are: Ohio State at Michigan, Michigan at Michigan State, Ohio State at Penn State, Purdue at Minnesota and Ohio State at Minnesota as well as many others. Additionally, non-conference Big Ten games on Comcast during the first few weeks of the season include: Michigan State at Notre Dame, Notre Dame at Penn State, Notre Dame at Michigan, Washington State at Wisconsin, University of Alabama-Birmingham at Michigan State, Missouri at Illinois and Oregon at Michigan.
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