Re: time warner not the problem

[Bryan Sherman]

*sigh*

> From my perspective, national means that it is accessible to the vast
majority of the naional audience. the 5 I mentioned are available to the
vast majority. It could even be argued ESPN doesn't qualify since you need
cable or satelite to get that, but heck, I will give you that since there
aren't a ton of folks with just over the air (though I know a number of
folks that stick to the old aerial).

ESPN2 is not on basic cable on TW, not sure about Dish/DirectTV. You have to
have the sports package. ESPNU is not even carried by some systems (I don't
*think* TW is the only system spurning ESPNU). Therefore folks *may* need to
do something proactively (change to a different source, buy a supplemental
package...).

SO, let me propose a middle ground. From an *Access* perspective, it looks
like UC has 10 National games. By that I mean a fan from anywhere in the
country can choose to pay to get access to 10 games. great.

> From an *Exposure* perspective, we have 1 national game. Anyone with access
to CBS can watch one game this year.

Bottom line, it sucks, it is worse than it has been in years, and I hope
that this too will soon pass... :-)

On 9/28/06, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> Seems to me if you are anywhere in the country with a dish and can pick up
> the feed it would be a national game.