[NU Sports] Big 10 Network

[Michael Vance]

Has anyone heard what the schedule will be?  I figure that it won't be 
that difficult to show every conference game live most Saturdays *if* -- 
and I realize that this is a big if -- they have two 3:30 (Eastern) 
games and a night game each week.  You simply have a 12:00 ESPN game, a 
3:30 ABC game, and games in each of those timeslots on BTN, then a night 
game at 8:00 on either ABC or BTN, whichever picks it up.

The team that has their conference off-week, which everyone has filled 
with their 12th game, would be the odd man out.  I haven't checked to 
see how many of those look to be good games.  I doubt very many since 
they were mostly relatively last-minute fills when the 12th game was 
permitted.

If anyone has seen or heard details on kickoff times, I'd love to hear them.

BTW, my wife and I ditched Insight Cable and switched to DirecTV for BTN 
and because we got $300 off a new HDTV at Best Buy (Circuit City and 
others have the same offer) when you sign up for DirecTV when you buy 
the TV.  DirecTV also has a deal going where you can get their top 
channel lineup free for four months if you buy NFL Sunday Ticket.  It 
ends up costing about the same as the mid-level channel lineup and you 
get football out the wazoo!  The only downside is that it's not the HD 
version of Sunday Ticket and you have to remember to downgrade your 
channel lineup at the end of the offer or you end up having to pay full 
price for it.

-Michael

Clark Zahn wrote:
> Dennis W. Brandt wrote:
>> I got a clarification from Directv today.  They actually called me on 
>> a Sunday in response to an e-mail question.  There will only be 
>> channel 220, no alternate channels, no multiple simultaneous 
>> broadcasts.  That means whatever one game the Big 10 Network decides 
>> to show is what you get, although there may be taped delays.  
>> Directv, unlike my local cable, will not permit one weekend of 
>> ESPN+.  It's all season or nothing.  It's not looking good for NU 
>> football on TV this season.
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> That sounds strange!  In the past Directv has never had the offering 
> on a particular channel vary from area to area.  Some games were 
> blacked out but they were still there.  Since all of the BIg10 home 
> games will be televised that means they would have to invent a new 
> technology that hasn't been used before to show all of the games live 
> yet use only one channel.  Either that or only one game would be shown 
> live and all the rest would be tape delayed.  I can't imagine that 
> happening.  We'll have to wait and see what happens.
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> Clark Zahn
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