Big Ten Network (BTN)

[Thump]

BTW, will Bill Hosket get a job doing OSU B'ball games on BTN?

I've grown up watching him call OSU games.

[Piney]

Originally Posted by Bucklion

Sorry I'm late to this mess, but this certainly makes the ESPN PPV Gameplan a colossal waste of time with no Big Ten games...though we can certainly get that all-important Gardner-Webb/Ohio matchup

Wait... ESPN Gameplan is going to have Gardner-Webb v Ohio??? SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now my weekend is set!

[Spielman36]

Originally Posted by TRON

[censored] the BTN and Timer Warner.

Ill be outside in my hammock with the radio on.

Buy a ticket and enjoy a beautiful Saturday afternoon in the 'Shoe!

[utgrad73]

Originally Posted by DaddyBigBucks

Allow me to be the first to offer the official Buckeye Planet seal of approval for their choice of the first game to be replayed on BTN.

I second that coming from the far NW corner of Ohio. I am pumped.

[SparkyOSU]

Vegas Update- DtV Channel 218 upcoming: OSU v YSU, 219 Upcoming NW v NE, 220 still off air.

[Cincinnatibuck]

Directv Channel Assignments

12:00 p.m. EDT
Appalachian State at Michigan (Ch. 220 - Primary Game)
Youngstown State at Ohio State (Ch. 218 - Overflow Game)
Northeastern at Northwestern (Ch. 219 - Overflow Game)
Florida International at Penn State (Ch. 221 - Overflow Game)

8:00 p.m. EDT
Bowling Green at Minnesota (Ch. 220 - Primary Game)
Indiana State at Indiana (Ch. 218 - Overflow Game)

[DaddyBigBucks]

Originally Posted by Cincinnatibuck

Directv Channel Assignments

...
8PM
Indiana State at Indiana (Ch. 218 - Overflow Game)

oooooooo... let me think...

Tennessee at Cal or the Battle to be declared the 3rd best college football team in the state of Indiana...

decisions decisions

[buckiprof]

Originally Posted by DaddyBigBucks

oooooooo... let me think...

Tennessee at Cal or the Battle to be declared the 3rd best college football team in the state of Indiana...

Wow, I think you are giving ND too much credit .

[DaddyBigBucks]

Originally Posted by buckiprof

Wow, I think you are giving ND too much credit .

That's why I included the word "declared" in that sentence...

[BuckeyeMike80]

Originally Posted by buckiprof

Wow, I think you are giving ND too much credit .

1) Purdon't

2) Indiana

3) Ball State (hey they came a hell of a lot closer to beating Missagain last year than the Fat Chuck's did...)

4) Indiana State

5) NoD

[Tlangs]

Originally Posted by Cincinnatibuck

Directv Channel Assignments

12:00 p.m. EDT
Appalachian State at Michigan (Ch. 220 - Primary Game)
Youngstown State at Ohio State (Ch. 218 - Overflow Game)
Northeastern at Northwestern (Ch. 219 - Overflow Game)
Florida International at Penn State (Ch. 221 - Overflow Game)

We are the overflow game?!?!?! I call shenanigans!

Aparently the big ten network is like 75 channels.

[SparkyOSU]

Originally Posted by Tlangs

We are the overflow game?!?!?! I call shenanigans!

Aparently the big ten network is like 75 channels.

Not only 75 channels of backwater college fishing championship classic rewinds, but I heard they are going to put out 12 additional home shopping channels.

[OSU SPORTS]

Looks like someone is starting to realize it's position is weak


BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Big Ten Network, Insight reportedly reach deal

[DaddyBigBucks]

Originally Posted by OSU SPORTS

Looks like someone is starting to realize it's position is weak


BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Big Ten Network, Insight reportedly reach deal

This has less to do with a sudden realization of their negotiating position and more with a gradual realization of their carefully laid plans. This, albeit a tad earlier than I predicted, is the start of a cascade of agreements that I and others could see coming a mile away...

Originally Posted by DaddyBigBucks

...

To reiterate Oh8ch's spot-on analysis; DirecTV airing BTN is just rearranging the money in Murdoch's pockets. BTN charging more than cable companies want to pay is simply Murdoch's means of recruiting more DirecTV customers. At some point, probably right after the season starts, the marginal benefit of more customers will be outweighed by the marginal loss of advertising revenue. Whenever that point is reached, BTN will lower their price and come to an agreement with the remaining hold-outs (cable companies).
...

Perhaps a vBet is called for. When will Time Warner in Columbus begin to carry the BTN? You can bet the vHouse it will happen before the end of September...

[OSU SPORTS]

Here is another Big Ten Network finalizing deal with Insight - Business First of Louisville: