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March Madness Coming To TBS, TNT - And Even TruTV!

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

CBS has reached a deal with Turner Broadcasting for a new contract to carry the annual NCAA basketball tournament. The deal is in effect next year, and goes all the way through 2024.

The article linked below states, "Turner will spread its coverage across its cable channels TBS, TNT and TruTV." Yes, this will be just like watching championship hockey on MSNBC, or curling on Bravo.

Full story:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/ent...and-cbs-partner-on-108-billion-ncaa-deal.html
 
I don't like the idea of this already. It will give Turner more of an excuse to jack their carriage fees up even higher. :(
 
Did you read the article I linked? Because that's exactly what it says right after the part that I quoted in the first post! (I guess a CoCo fee can only take you so far...)
 
Charles Barkley doing college basketball?!?!?!?! NO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O!!!!!!!!! ;D
 
Please, don't give them any ideas. I'm sure it'll get to that point eventually. All four "play-in games" on CMT. (That's another thing that I neglected to mention; with this deal comes a slight change in the tourney; the field is expanded from 64 teams to 68. I imagine there will now be a "play-in game" for each region?)

Anyway, a local sports columnist had an interesting take on this deal:
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_sports/commish_can_see_double_standard_YefjOcCa2rHTKgSrikVmwO/1

"In 1989, when the NCAA dumped ESPN as an early-rounds carrier of Division I basketball tournament telecasts and sold it all to CBS... the NCAA’s boss at the time, Dick Schultz, bragged that the tournament is off cable, was now fully in the hands of “free TV...” [Now] the NCAA is boasting that’s its tournament is being shared by cable TV."
 
As long as the outstanding NCAA on Demand streaming feature remains untouched, the games could be aired on Oxygen for all I care.
 
NBCU owns Oxygen; with that said, I believe they might have run some womens' sporting events from the Olympics a couple of years ago.
 
DToTheJ said:
NBCU owns Oxygen; with that said, I believe they might have run some womens' sporting events from the Olympics a couple of years ago.
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According to Wikipedia, Oxygen ran some programming during the '08 Summers, I believe they ran an hour or 2 a night of equestrian or events of women's interest
 
Well, Logo is owned by CBS... whose broadcast network is part of the NCAA deal... Stranger things have happened...
 
Ha... Who wants to bet that by next March, TruTV will have already debuted a new reality - I'm sorry, not reality, "actuality" - series based around Rick Pitino, or any other college basketball figure?
 
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