[NU Sports] TV for Wisconsin Game

[John Labbe]

It looks like the "all access" periods are not for certain programs but rather for certain promotional time periods.  I doubt this weekend, the middle football season, will be an "all access" period.  But the irony of it is that there's little reason to promote the service given that there's very little an individual user can do to get it.  Either your ISP subscribes to it or they don't.  Apparently, none of the major Chicago ISPs subscribe.

I don't really understand the logic behind this, but it seems to be the way it goes with ESPN lately.


On Monday, October 02, 2006, at 03:39PM, John Labbe <johnl at mac.com> wrote:

>FWIW, here's what Wikipedia has to say about ESPN360:
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN360
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>It sounds like some programming is available to all internet users regardless of ISP.  Does anyone know where to find a listing about that?
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>I also wonder whether there's a chance that the broadcast would be syndicated and shown on a local station in Madison and/or Chicago.
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>I think with the 12th game this year, and the fact that there will be 6 Big Ten games every week, we may start to be out of luck with some of these ESPN arrangements.  If we wind up on the U too much, I may have to do some more serious investigation of satellite TV and get rid of Comcast.  But this 360 business is truly for the birds.
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>On Monday, October 02, 2006, at 01:33PM, Jonathan Hodges <jonathanwhodges at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>The Big Ten has announced the TV schedule for this week's games only
>>(10/07):
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>>http://bigten.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/082606aac.html
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>>The Northwestern at Wisconsin game is listed as ESPN360.  Apparently this is
>>an internet-only TV feed that is available only if your ISP is a partner
>>(none of the big Chicago providers, Comcast and AT&T DSL, are on the list).
>>The game is also not on the list of games available on GamePlan this week
>>(which I would not mind purchasing if the game was on it).
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>>Does anyone have details on how to get the game on TV/internet, or if it is
>>even possible?
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>>Jonathan
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