Brian Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=378359 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedoctor Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 good news. just in time for sports no one cares about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamTell Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Hey I happen to love watching Big Ten Gymnastics, lol not really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjshoe04 Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 QUOTE(thedoctor @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 12:33 PM) good news. just in time for sports no one cares about. I didn't know anyone really cared about any Big Ten sports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimpy2121 Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 I still don't understand how I get the Big Ten Network down here in Florida on basic cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitetrain8601 Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 It's a boring channel. I think I've watched it maybe once and it wasn't by choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxbadger Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 (edited) I watch it all the time, more than I watch ESPN. /shrugs To each their own, but if you want Big 10 information and coverage your going to get a lot more on BTN. Edited March 12, 2008 by Soxbadger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedoctor Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Mar 12, 2008 -> 04:14 PM) I watch it all the time, more than I watch ESPN. /shrugs To each their own, but if you want Big 10 information and coverage your going to get a lot more on BTN. agreed. i don't have the channel but my girlfriend does so i get to watch from time-to-time. i've liked what i've seen on two levels. one, i think it does give you a better look at all of the teams in the league. big ten tonight is a good show and pretty well-produced for a new program. second, as an illinois fan living out of state, it gives me a chance to pretty much watch every game without having to go to a bar. now, there's no question there is plenty of niche programming on that i would not be interested in. i don't ever expect to find myself watching some of the other sports other than football and basketball. and some of their filler programming is kind of weak right now. then again, there is not a network on television that i'd watch from morning to night anyway, so in that regard the btn is no different than any other network. in all, i like it. i don't like how they've gone about their business and was very skeptical about the network initially, but i've been pleasantly surprised with the network itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenksismyhero Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 QUOTE(thedoctor @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 11:16 AM) in all, i like it. i don't like how they've gone about their business and was very skeptical about the network initially, but i've been pleasantly surprised with the network itself. Why's that? I thought they went about it in the perfect way. They said, hey, here's a network that'll bring in millions and millions of viewers annually, more than Hallmark, Lifetime, WE, all the god channels, etc etc, probably combined. We deserve to be on basic packages, not premium packages. Comcast was pissy because they were being told what to do. I'm amazed they held out this long. Might as well wait until the summer/fall when football starts up again. As far as the programming, I don't watch a whole lot either besides Illinois games. However I love the ability to watch other conference games that have meaning but aren't carried by ESPN - like some of the games between mich st, indiana, purdue and wisconsin. The Minnesota Bball journey seems like a pretty cool behind the scenes show. Mostly I stick to their coverage shows. They had some good specials on the bowl season, the combine, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedoctor Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 04:39 PM) Why's that? I thought they went about it in the perfect way. They said, hey, here's a network that'll bring in millions and millions of viewers annually, more than Hallmark, Lifetime, WE, all the god channels, etc etc, probably combined. We deserve to be on basic packages, not premium packages. Comcast was pissy because they were being told what to do. I'm amazed they held out this long. Might as well wait until the summer/fall when football starts up again. As far as the programming, I don't watch a whole lot either besides Illinois games. However I love the ability to watch other conference games that have meaning but aren't carried by ESPN - like some of the games between mich st, indiana, purdue and wisconsin. The Minnesota Bball journey seems like a pretty cool behind the scenes show. Mostly I stick to their coverage shows. They had some good specials on the bowl season, the combine, etc. well, i'm not really going to take a side in a battle of millionaires. and in the short term, the league did shut out many, many big ten fans and kept them from being able to watch games they would have otherwise seen. that, and i am not real fond of the way they strong-armed many smaller production companies who had worked out deals with individual schools for programming through the years. i also think the league was rushed into production. i work at a big ten school and have been in on a few meetings with btn execs, including silverman and their other upper management team. when they first came and presented to us last summer, it was clear that they had not thought through certain aspects of the network, aspects that would make it more valuable than football and basketball and nothing else. one example of this is the fact that they "offered" each school 60 hours of non-sports programming. this was offered as a supposed benefit for universities, but who has the resources to immediately produce this much programming? that's a multi-million dollar proposition and is totally unrealistic. yet they hammered us with this 60 hours like it was some gift when there was no realistic way of making it happen. so no, i don't like the way they did their business, and that goes well beyond the cable battle. i think they would have been better off laying the groundwork for the network and launching this year. does this mean i think it will hamper them long-term? probably not. the league will succeed. but talk to development officers and fundraisers at other big ten universities and ask them how it's affected them. it hasn't been a good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Great. They'll charge Comcast $1/ subscriber, and Comcast will charge me $5 a month for a channel I will rarely watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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