[NU Sports] Re: Indiana game

[Clark Zahn]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jonathan Hodges <jonathanwhodges at gmail.com>
>Sent: Sep 15, 2010 10:16 AM
>To: Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
>Cc: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
>Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Re: Indiana game
>
>> BTW, if BTN chooses not to do a game, can the home team still do PPV?
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>
>Since the BTN began broadcasting in 2007, EVERY Big Ten home game has been
>televised either on ABC/ESPN Networks or the BTN.  As far as I know, the
>contracts give the conference all rights to home games and those rights are
>transferred to the BTN for any games not picked up by ABC/ESPN.  This is
>somewhat different than most other conferences where the home teams still
>retain rights to their home games after the networks have chosen their games
>for the week (hence opening up the chance for local syndication and/or
>PPV).  So, I think Nebraska's PPV cash flow will be ending after this
>season, although they will soon get a large and steady stream of cash from
>the Big Ten television contracts as well as the BTN.
>


BTN will broadcast every home game that isn't picked up even if they have to bring in some one time contract guys to do the game.  They did that to us for one of our "preseason" games last year.  Those guys were awful!

BTN also seems to have the rebroadcast rights to Big10 home games as I have seen ABC and ESPN broadcasts repeated on BTN.