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NCAA Basketball on FOX

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How is FOX able to show college basketball on FOX Broadcast this past Sunday. Because CBS has the rights which they had for awhile.
 
radiolives said:
How is FOX able to show college basketball on FOX Broadcast this past Sunday. Because CBS has the rights which they had for awhile.
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Just a guess but the new Big East Conference was not a party to the NCAA's current contract with CBS Sports.
 
Fox Sports in general holds all of the rights for the "new" Big East Conference and can carry all the games however they want; lower-interest regional matchups go on the local Fox Sports Net for example (if Marquette is playing DePaul for instance, which would be a drain on FS1, it would be exclusive to Fox Sports Wisconsin and maybe a window to a Chicago Comcast net), and big matchups like the Big East Championship are carried on Fox itself. Yesterday though with Duke playing St. John's (a Big East school, allowing Fox to have the rights) at MSG in New York and Duke's Coach K going for his 1,000th win (and getting it), Fox Sports was eager to have that on the main network and were allowed to put it on there. If they don't have to put on a time-buy sporting event, they'll definitely do so.
 
i tihnk that my fox station whns would rather have a basketball game than a old movie?
 
they have shown movies in the past when there is no mlb or nascar or nfl or college football my abc station wlos did the same thing before pba bowling and wide world of sports for years
 
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JayR said:
Just a guess but the new Big East Conference was not a party to the NCAA's current contract with CBS Sports.
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The new Big East's primary contract is with Fox Sports; Fox in turn (I believe) made a contract with CBS for a subpackage of games.
 
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Does your local Fox station even have a movie library anymore? Most network affiliates here that choose not to take a game fill with syndicated shows or infomercials.
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The few that take movies usually just grab them from the MGM, Fox, Disney/Touchstone and Paramount syndicated packages offered for weekend play, or for those with the ability, taped off This or Movies!. My Fox affil in Milwaukee is one with a library though; they have a film library of RKO films and some other B&W flicks, some of them with the non-Turner colorized versions from the 80s that they usually carry after 2am on Sunday mornings, but sometimes on Sunday afternoons.
 
i just looked at a tv guide and whns does have a movie scheduled for after a big east game this saturday so i guess stations still do air movies when there is no sports on
 
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The few that take movies usually just grab them from the MGM, Fox, Disney/Touchstone and Paramount syndicated packages offered for weekend play, or for those with the ability, taped off This or Movies!. My Fox affil in Milwaukee is one with a library though; they have a film library of RKO films and some other B&W flicks, some of them with the non-Turner colorized versions from the 80s that they usually carry after 2am on Sunday mornings, but sometimes on Sunday afternoons.
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It seems that most of the movies shown are in more than one market, so this makes sense. Some less familiar movies come from popcornflix.com.
 
The TV stations subscribe to a service which provides the movies on short notice.
The movies are generally uploaded to a subscription website where the station can login and download the movies.
Decades ago, the movies were sent to the stations on video tape via FedEx.
Even earlier, they were shipped to the stations on 16mm film.
TV stations do not record the movies from consumer-oriented websites.
The movies must be edited for content. They must include places for commercials.
Most importantly, the movies must be edited to fit into the schedule.
 
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wlos used to show a lot of older movies before the pro bolwers tour in the 1980s i remember it
 
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