Everyone's gotta remember that the BTN has one initial shot at maximizing revenues from their venture - and this year is it! I am not real clear on whether the 'Big Ten' is putting this in their warchest to distribute (ala the collective winnings of the B10 bowl team's shares) or ???????
Always a fight to get the cable companies to provide 'what the consumer wants' as they'd prefer to get it for cheap, and then charge us (the consumers) up the ying yang. The BTN WANTS loyal fans to rant and rave about their local cable companies NOT carrying the
OSU games, so they pick up the option, charge us for them, and the Big Ten makes more money. And so it goes.........
By the way, they take many channels, and 'package' them and charge. Do we want them all, NO. However, they can advertise 2000 channels, but the normal (whatever that means) person only watches 25. Marketing at its finest. (must have a P&G grad running the show).
It'll all be done at the end of the day, mine was done by a telephone operator (drop ESPN Gameplan and add the expanded sports network) on the call. For y'all that have to have dishes put on your roofs, better get on atruckin' or you might see Penn State as your first game.
I, too, have great concerns about seeing the beloved Buckeyes on TV as much as I did on Gameplan, ESPN, ESPN2 or local channel. Heck, at the worst, I'll be spending more time on the golf course or with my family on Saturdays.........
