[NU Sports] The Big 10 monster

[Roy Lamberton]

Since I live in the middle of ACC country and have Comcast as a provider, I durn
sure wish they'd get together. Anything congress touches turns to ***** and I'd
prefer they leave all of cable and broadcast alone, let the people decide with
their feet, I say.

I just wish they'd offer the games on the web as a ppv option - I can get a
decent picture on my computer and have purchased the gameplan internet package
in the past. I usually can see the picture well enough to get a good sense of
how we're playing, but I'd be hard pressed to buy both ESPN and Big 10 Network
just to see a couple of games.

Besides they'd probably black out NU's games in favor of State Penn....

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Dennis W. Brandt
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 6:13 PM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: [NU Sports] The Big 10 monster
> 
> 
> No sooner did I write about the Big Ten Network's greed in 
> demanding $1.10 from every cable subscriber in a Big Ten 
> state than the spit or other bodily excretion hit the 
> political fan.  Rep. John Dingell of Michigan is getting lots 
> of complaints from Wolverine fans that no cable company in 
> the state at this point plans to carry the network, thus 
> denying fans three televised Michigan games.  Dingell, who 
> apparently is not a Michigan State, Eastern Michigan, or 
> Western Michigan fan, has already talked with the Big Ten 
> commissioner.  Watch out!  Washington's involved.
> 
> Then there is the battle of political correctness between the 
> Big Ten and Comcast who dared call Iowa women's volleyball 
> "second tier," which, of course, is true, along with any 
> gender of college lacrosse, wrestling, track and field, 
> soccer, swimming, tiddlywinks, etc.  For that matter, so is 
> the Northwestern-Indiana football game (probably).  The Big 
> Ten Network is a niche channel that is very unlikely to ever 
> carry a sporting event of anything more than local or 
> specialized interest just like CSTV.  A buck-ten for one 
> channel of this nature is outrageous.  The odds are that most 
> cable companies will not be carrying the channel this season.
> 
> I also note that Congress may be very close to demanding a la 
> carte programming from cable and satellite providers, which 
> columnist Cal Thomas thinks is a bad idea because the 
> government should not be involved.  I tend to agree, but I 
> also smell monopolies at work.  (Cue Sen. John Sherman and 
> his famous act.)  The cable/satellite industry may fight back 
> with ridiculous pricing for individual channels or tiers.  
> Bring it on!  I got DirecTV. 
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