[NU Sports] The Big 10 monster

[Joe Thiegs]

I, for one, am very excited about the Big Ten Network.  Of course, the
question for me is, "Will Dish Network carry it?"  I was at an event tonight
at which I had the opportunity to chat with an actual Big Ten Network
employee, and I was pleased to hear that it sounds like Dish Network and the
Big Ten Network are close to a deal.  She acknowledged that Comcast is a
more difficult situation.  However, I blame Comcast rather than the Big Ten.
A year and a half ago I switched from cable (then Time-Warner, since merged
with Comcast) after nine years of cable service because I had felt for some
time that they charged way too much for what I was getting, particularly
compared with the satellite providers.  I got sick of trying to re-up and
roll over promotional deals.  We were worried about whether the service
would compare with cable, and our worries were completely unfounded.  I
haven't regretted it a moment, with one significant exception:  I can't get
the local cable access channels on satellite.  I have that particular brand
of eccentricity (my wife thinks insanity) that makes me really like a lot of
those programs, but that's an issue for very few people.  It's been worth it
even having had to give those up.  -Joe

P.S.  Don -- What beautiful artwork!


-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of AJWDBW at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 8:39 PM
To: rstetson at capps-assoc.com; tbng at comcast.net; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] The Big 10 monster

There was an interesting, albeit lengthy, piece in the Minneapolis Star  
Tribune. It's focus is on the impact in Minnesota and the U of M football
games  
but also paints a fairly informative picture of the situation. The link is  
_http://www.startribune.com/gophers/story/1261368.html_ 
(http://www.startribune.com/gophers/story/1261368.html) .
Don Williams C55
 
PS. A  pen and ink rendering I did of University Hall and which was  donated

as a door prize at the NGN dinner this past April is for sale through  the 
Northwestern University Alumni web site. You can get information by going to

_http://www.alumni.northwestern.edu/_ (http://www.alumni.northwestern.edu/)
and  
follow the prompts. Any profits I receive from the sales will be donated to 
the  Walker fund. 
Don



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