[Husker] btn concern

[Mike Jaixen]

In past years, regional ABC games that aren't shown in your area are available 
on ESPN GamePlan. And for the last year or two, ESPN has picked up one of those 
regional ABC broadcasts and carried it nationwide (called the "reverse 
mirror")...except in those areas where the game is on ABC, in which case, ESPN 
picks another another game for that area.

That works out well, except when the ABC game gets to be a blowout and ABC 
switched most of the country to another game...usually the one on ESPN. 


Here's the good news... the Big Ten contract with ABC/ESPN means that a Big Ten 
game gets the first shot at the "reverse mirror" slot.  So if a Nebraska game 
televised under the Big Ten contract is not on your local ABC station, it should 
be on ESPN.  (That doesn't apply to future road games against UCLA and Miami, 
for example.)

 Mike Jaixen
http://huskermike.blogspot.com
http://www.cornnation.com




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From: Ken Oliver <ksterling at mindspring.com>
To: Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
Sent: Fri, July 29, 2011 9:28:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Husker] btn concern

  
Thanks for your reply.  
 
A further potential complication that I should have mentioned.  I am in CT and 
get BTN on Cablevision.  I am concerned, for example, with the following 
scenario:  UNL vs UM is a regional ABC game and ABC judges that BC vs UNC is 
more appropriate for us.  Will BTN be carrying such a game also?
 
 
-----Original Message----- 
>From: Mike Jaixen 
>Sent: Jul 29, 2011 9:56 AM 
>To: Ken Oliver , huskers 
>Subject: Re: [Husker] btn concern 
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>This is an issue that is still being resolved.  All of Nebraska's games will be 
>televised, but there is an outside chance that BTN will not be televising the 
>games originally.  It comes down to a contractual issue that probably is now 
>resolved.  Time Warner Cable, Cox Cable, and Dish Network previously agreed to 
>carry BTN on digital cable as an "out of market" area.  Now that Nebraska is a 
>Big Ten market, BTN wants these cable companies to sign a revised agreement.  
>BTN wants the games on basic cable, and the cable companies to pay a higher 
>rights fee, like cable outlets in Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio do.
>
>Until these cable companies agree to a revised agreement, the Big Ten was going 
>to retain the rights to Nebraska games and only offer the broadcasts to cable 
>and satellite providers that have agreed to the new BTN agreement.  The games 
>would have been produced by BTN...just would be on another channel, and would be 
>branded as "Big Ten Conference" instead of BTN.
>
>This week, Time Warner Cable, Dish Network, Cox, and Charter One all came to 
>terms with BTN.  I would expect that next week, we'll get the official word that 
>the Chattanooga and Fresno State games will be televised by BTN. 
>
>
> Mike Jaixen
>http://huskermike.blogspot.com
>http://www.cornnation.com 
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 From: Ken Oliver <ksterling at mindspring.com>
>To: huskers <husker at tssi.com>
>Sent: Fri, July 29, 2011 8:45:38 AM
>Subject: [Husker] btn concern
>
>Yesterday while watching Delaney on BTN during media days, a scroll of 
>September's games on BTN rolled on the left side of the screen, at least the 
>games for Sept 3, 10 and 17.  There was not one game for Nebraska listed.  I 
>realize that it is the non-conference part of the season and on most Saturdays 
>there will be 12 different B1G teams playing non-conference opponents but I was 
>under the impression that all of the UNL games would be carried, including the 
>non-conference.  Am I misunderstanding something or am I going to be 
>tremendously disappointed?
>
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