Big Ten Network

[Cincinnatibuck]

A few quick responses from reading the last 5 pages:

Directv will have the HD games once the new satellite goes live. The projected date is Sept. 16th, some HD channels may appear before this date.
If your cable company did not show the game in HD, it's not BTN fault it's your cable company.
This game would not have been shown on ESPN-HD as someone complained about it being on BTN. The Michigan game was the BTN's first choice this week.
Without BTN all games shown this week would of been regional games only on ESPN Plus (non-HD)

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

Commentary
Big Ten talks good game while picking pockets

Tuesday, September 4, 2007 3:22 AM
By michael arace



Lloyd Carr spent one of his last days as Michigan coach taping an advertisement for the Big Ten Network. He urged "True Blue" fans to demand their local cable outfits pick up BTN so they can pay to see games once televised for free.

Carr has made millions of dollars off the backs of unpaid athletes at a publicly funded institution, making him the perfect pitchman.
With a thespian's flair for irony, he did everything in his power to sell the network when Michigan lost to Appalachian State on Saturday. It was arguably the biggest upset in college football history, available only on the Big Ten Network.

Continued....

[lvbuckeye]

Originally Posted by Cincinnatibuck

A few quick responses from reading the last 5 pages:

Directv will have the HD games once the new satellite goes live. The projected date is Sept. 16th, some HD channels may appear before this date.
If your cable company did not show the game in HD, it's not BTN fault it's your cable company.
This game would not have been shown on ESPN-HD as someone complained about it being on BTN. The Michigan game was the BTN's first choice this week.
Without BTN all games shown this week would of been regional games only on ESPN Plus (non-HD)

they would have been available on Gameplan though....

[heisman]

Originally Posted by lvbuckeye

they would have been available on Gameplan though....

BTN just saved me $100.

[Buckeyedynasty]

Just got my Direct TV installed today. At least I can see the game this week.

[Cincinnatibuck]

Latest update on the BTN in HD on Directv is Sept. 14.

[Dryden]

Originally Posted by MaxBuck

Like it or not, this is a niche product, and niche products do not wind up on basic cable.

My basic cable lineup:

2 WSFJ Newark, Ohio (GTN)
3 AmericanLife TV Network
4 WCMH Columbus, Ohio. (NBC)
5 TV Guide Channel
6 WSYX Columbus, Ohio. (ABC)
7 WOSU Columbus, Ohio. (PBS)
8 WTTE Columbus, Ohio. (FOX)
9 Community Information
10 WBNS Columbus, Ohio. (CBS)
11 AZN Television
12 TLC
13 WWHO Columbus, Ohio (CW)
14 C-SPAN 2
15 WUAB Lorain, Ohio. (MyNetwork)
16 Superstation WGN
17 TBS
18 QVC
19 Shop NBC
20 The History Channel
21 Public Access
22 C-SPAN
23 Hallmark Channel
24 Time Warner Connection/Sport!TV
25 Educational Access
26 Local Weather Radar
27 CNN Headline News

That's 26 channels. I watch 6 of them, and one of those (The History Channel) is most certainly a niche product.

The fact is: 80% of what we're already getting is niche product, and there's no guarantee we would've gotten these games "for free" before the BTN came about, either. Surely we haven't all forgotten the Indiana/ESPNU/Time Warner fiasco last year?

It runs both ways. BTN is to blame for wanting to be in a basic tier. Cable Co's are to blame for having tier platform to begin with.

I have Time Warner. Basic, Extended, plus Road Runner runs me $89.95 a month. That means in this decade, I've paid out nearly $10,000 to TW for cable and Internet. Do I call to complain about my channel selection? Do I call and ask them to remove We, Oxygen, three CSPANS, 12 24-hour news networks, two MTVs, VH-1, four shopping channels, BET, AZN, and all the other crap I don't watch?

No. I don't do that. You probably don't do that, either. We're the ones to blame here. It's a broken business model, and we should've demanded it be fixed 25 years ago when it was conceived.

[buck1973]

Originally Posted by Dryden

That's 26 channels. I watch 6 of them, and one of those (The History Channel) is most certainly a niche product.

The fact is: 80% of what we're already getting is niche product, and there's no guarantee we would've gotten these games "for free" before the BTN came about, either. Surely we haven't all forgotten the Indiana/ESPNU/Time Warner fiasco last year?

It runs both ways. BTN is to blame for wanting to be in a basic tier. Cable Co's are to blame for having tier platform to begin with.

I have Time Warner. Basic, Extended, plus Road Runner runs me $89.95 a month. That means in this decade, I've paid out nearly $10,000 to TW for cable and Internet. Do I call to complain about my channel selection? Do I call and ask them to remove We, Oxygen, three CSPANS, 12 24-hour news networks, two MTVs, VH-1, four shopping channels, BET, AZN, and all the other crap I don't watch?

No. I don't do that. You probably don't do that, either. We're the ones to blame here. It's a broken business model, and we should've demanded it be fixed 25 years ago when it was conceived.

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