Re: B-Ball TV Question

[Mike Sherrick]

On Fri, 2 May 2003, jon breiner wrote:

> Unless things have changed, I used to pay the $10 for all the Fox Sports
> channels on Directv and almost all of the bball games worth watching were
> blacked out because they were part of the ESPN-Plus package.  FS Midwest and
> Chicago used to have some DePaul games and SLU games, but that was about it.
> I'd figure the UC games would be blacked out also.
>
> I thought that ESPN had alot more of UC's games on ESPN Plus now.
>
> jon b


Given my location, I've been able to get most all of the Fox Sports Net
games and all of the ESPN Plus games, without blackouts.  Didn't matter,
UC is rarely on any of these.  In fact, it's worse compared to what it was
a few years ago when I used to be able to see UC on Fox Sports once in a
while out of stations featuring DePaul, St. Louis, or Memphis.  I think I
only received one or two of these this year.  ESPN plus sometimes gives me
access to a ABC or CBS game that would not otherwise be available to me
through the featured games for those networks.

In short, despite the fact that I subscribe to everthing possible, and am
affected very little by blackouts, I still don't get the Cats very often
when they're not on national TV.  My impression is that other teams appear
on Fox and Plus much more often.

This all sounds to me like contractual issues between UC and Fox Sports
and ESPN plus.  Brian McCann, if you're out there and if you would be
comfortable making a comment, perhaps you could jump in on this
discussion.

Mike in Newfoundland


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Johnson" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 1:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] B-Ball TV Question
>
>
> > By pay-per-view, are you referring to ESPN-PLUS?
> > Whenever I see the published schedule for that it
> > shows maybe two UC games.  That's the main reason I
> > don't subscribe to that.  Can I typically count on
> > their adding several Bearcat games throughout the
> > course of the season?
> >
> > --- jon breiner <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > My guess is that most of the games would be
> > > nationally blacked out though as
> > > they would be part of the pay-per-view package.
> >
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Mike Sherrick
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