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Originally Posted by jenkinswoody
" OSU Sports" Not trying to start a fight here, but 36 of your last 39 posts (i'm a stalker now) have been on this topic. They have always defended the BTN or provided us with updates re: BTN. Do you have some kind of personal interest in this venture? Honest question.
FWIW. I'm on the record as thinking that the BTN and TWC are both greedy and will reap what they sow. |
I'll save you the trouble of counting my posts, they will all be in favor of the BTN. Do I have a personal interest, yes, I'm an
OSU fan that lives out of state. I don't have a sense of entitlement because I live in range of the
OSU broadcasts. I frankly find it hard to understand any logic associated with an opposing view. I said logic, not emotion. For the most part I have stayed out of the inane disputes on here. I don't work for any party involved, unlike Comcast and their merry bunch of
PR imposters. Here are some of my favorite complaints about the BTN
MONEY GRAB-Considering the profits go back to
OSU and the member schools, that is a shallow complaint. Money from the cable companies go in their pocket.
It wasn't broke, we didn't need the BTN-The contractual demands made by ESPiN were becoming more unacceptable. The games now on the BTN would probably have been on ESPNU or eventually ESPN 360. Some games in the Big Ten weren't even televised, in recent years. And Thursday night and maybe even Wed was a possibilty for future games.
My favorite one, I don't want to help News Corp/Fox/Murdoch-I could care less who the BTN chose to be a minor partner. When you buy milk at the store, do you run home and google the distributor of the milk to see if you like the company? BTW, if you do any research on Comcast, you will find a very sleazy, unethical company.
The BTN does not serve the best interest of the fans-Actually there is some merit to that claim, if you confine it to the short term. Yes a lot of fans will not see the games IF they don't make other arrangements to see them. Most will find a way, if they are interested enough. But the interest of the fans will be best served with the BTN over the long term. We wouldn't have paved streets if people whined about the incovenience of putting up with construction. I'd much rather have the B-10 conference control the athletic destiny of
OSU than the overlords in Bristol. One thing you won't have to ever endure on the BTN, is a repeat of the Alamo Bowl
OSU bashing.
The campaign of mis-information by the cable companies was amazing. Comcast with it's "fake" internet posters. Time Warner with it's fake preview. Comcast coming back with the "logo" reserved for the BTN(my favorite deception). The $1.10 figure that was constantly thrown out there by the cable companies, even after if was publicly denied at a later time by the BTN. The withdrawal of funds to Minnesota by Comcast for a Chamber of Commerce luncheon(great
PR move there). It's classic stuff.
I won't be making many more posts, because most people know what the issues are now. Some people will never change their minds, and that's fine with me. I just wanted to get some of the facts out there, especially in the early months. I don't think you are a stalker, at least I hope not, LOL(just kidding).
