B1G New Additions Offseason Thread

[LittlePig]

Iowa has a trip to UCLA in November,  which should be nice, except they ruined it by moving the game to Friday night.  I actually was thinking about going to the game, to see Iowa play in the Rose Bowl Stadium,  but now I think I will wait 5 Years. 

[847badgerfan]

I really do not like the Friday thing. At all.

The Badgers play one week from today.

[FearlessF]

I like this for the Huskers

[utee94]

Friday college games are great.

As long as it's not your own team.

[CatsbyAZ]

Well this stinks...

Due to carriage disputes with Comcast, the Big Ten Network is set to blackout Big Ten conference games featuring Washington, Oregon, USC, & UCLA across West Coast media markets. But West Coast subscribers of BTN can still watch B10 matchups between non-local schools.

From Awful Announcing-
"What’s going on here? Well, distributors like Comcast typically have one “out-of-market” per-subscriber rate for conference networks in particular, and another, much-higher, “in-market” rate...When schools flip conference alignment, that changes things for those networks...In the case of these particular West Coast schools, the BTN statement suggests every other distributor has been on board with flipping them to in-market [rates]...But it’s clear that Comcast has not agreed to whatever the deal in question is."


https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1828554477864890819

[FearlessF]

the folks out there don't watch much football anyway

I suppose it sucks most for other eastern Big Ten alum that would love to watch

of course, BTN is hoping those viewers can pressure Comcast into paying up 

I doubt that will happen

probably have to jump to YouTube TV

[utee94]

Comcast has refused to play ball with the B1G network in other regions, this is definitely not surprising.

Like I've said, the network subscriber model for conference networks is dying. This is just another nail.

[FearlessF]

perhaps the BTN will relent and take a bit less money to be able to get a few cents out of all the little old ladies that subscribe to comcast that otherwise would never pay for sports programing

greedy SOBs

[utee94]

perhaps the BTN will relent and take a bit less money to be able to get a few cents out of all the little old ladies that subscribe to comcast that otherwise would never pay for sports programing

greedy SOBs

Maybe but since I doubt there's much of anyone on the west coast that cares enough about it to put pressure on Comcast, there's no reason they'd relent even at a lower rate from the B1G Network.

That's the whole reason the PAC cratered in the first place.  Nobody out there watches college football.

[FearlessF]

a lower rate is better than Zero

[FearlessF]

greed from content providers like ESPN/ABC and the BTN are one of the biggest reasons the network subscriber model is dying

[utee94]

a lower rate is better than Zero

Better for the B1G Network, sure.  But why would Comcast agree to ANY rate, when there's no pressure on them to do so?

[FearlessF]

well again, there's more pressure than zero

[utee94]

well again, there's more pressure than zero