[NU Sports] Bowls on TV

[Scott Zeller]

Kid yourself not, the Rose Bowl will be on ABC. It will just be an "ESPN
production" that is airing on the ABC network. They do this all the time
with big games.

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Labbe John <johnl at mac.com> wrote:

> Yeah, just like Monday Night Football, all the BCS bowls are on ESPN this
> year.  It's part of ESPN's effort to take over the world (the Big Ten
> Network has essentially followed the same playbook).
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> Also, note that 4 of the Big Ten Bowl games are at overlapping times on New
> Year's Day: TicketCity, Capital One, Outback, and Gator (3 of which feature
> Big Ten vs. SEC).  The Outback and Capital One use to always overlap, but
> four overlapping Big Ten games is a new development.
>
> You would think they would try to spread out the games featuring the same
> conferences given that they will attract a lot of the same viewers.
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> On Dec 14, 2010, at 10:45 AM, NEONRye at aol.com wrote:
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> I was just looking in NY POST at listing of bowls with point spreads (NU is
>> 9 1/2 pt 'dog).  It also lists TV slots.  On New Year's Day Outback is now
>> on ABC at 1 PM EST, while Capital One drops down to ESPN and Gator is on
>> ESPN2.  I was even more surprised to learn that Rose (which for years was an
>> NBC production, and then went to ABC, is now on ESPN, and the Fiesta follows
>> that night on ESPN.  Guess I forgot that ESPN "won" the BCS Bowls Package,
>> but somehow I thought those games would wind up--at least in part--on sister
>> network ABC.  By the time BCS rolls around on Jan. 10 (after Orange, Sugar,
>> GoDaddy.com, Cotton, BBVA Compass, and Fight Hunger Bowls, each night from
>> Jan. 3-9) who will care or be able to watch any more college pigskin action?
>>  Talk about saturation!
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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