[NU Sports] Rose Bowl

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If you have program A on ESPN or program A on ABC which gets the highest rating?

ABC will always get the highest ratings even if 100% of the people with TVs have cable/dish with ESPN.

Everbody can find the network stations by number, but not everybody knows the number of ESPN.

Either way as long as we live in Chicagoland and have season tickets we are highly unlikely to get cable/dish.  For the away games we aren't attending we hit a bar or listen to them on WGN.

Unless ABC has alternate programming it can put on that will draw ratings or is using the Rose Bowl as a loss leader it makes no financial sense to put it on ESPN.  Eyes are eyes for advertisements and 11 million ABC is better than 9 million on ESPN.  Note:  Numbers are made up.

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Jason Singer <jason at jasonsinger.com>

This is all kind of much ado about nothing. One of the major pieces of the
ESPN family of networks is ABC. The contract does not say it will be on
ESPN. It says it will be on one of ESPN's networks. I am absolutely certain
that, just as they did with the NBA Finals, ESPN will put the BCS games on
ABC. Just thought before we contacted Congress, or rounded up a militia,
that should be pointed out.


On 6/16/09 8:25 AM, "Dennis W. Brandt" <tbng at comcast.net> wrote:

>> The only thing that could stop this momentum is federal legislation to
>> force
>> "a la carte" cable TV programming, which is a topic that comes and goes
>> from
>> time to time - especially when new networks like NFL Network and the Big
>> Ten
>> Network make a fuss with their cable carrier fees.
> 
> Keep the federal government out of it!  All they will do is screw it up and
> cost us money and/or reduce services.  I present General Motors and Chrysler
> as two very frightening examples of federal hegemony.  It is up to
> subscribers to demand a la carte services and end blackouts.  It's like
> going to Marshall Fields to buy a shirt and be told you can't have it unless
> you buy a suit, too.  There is an economic balance because the
> cable/satellite networks could charge more per channel.  At the very least,
> they need to offer separate tiers of programming.  They are doing some of
> that but not enough.  It just might be that pro players and greed colleges
> just might have to do what the rest of us do everyday and tighten their
> belts.  What a shame if that $50 mil contract would only be $40 mil.  And it
> might be time for some of those cable channels to go off the air if they
> can't draw sufficient viewers.  Anyone's life affected because we no longer
> have the Mutual Broadcasting Network?
> 
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