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SEC, CBS set 15-year TV deal
- Thread starter JayR
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WOW!
A 15-year deal is unmatched. Along with NBC's Notre Dame deal, ESPN will not have an empire for another decade.
And that's a good thing ;D!
A 15-year deal is unmatched. Along with NBC's Notre Dame deal, ESPN will not have an empire for another decade.
And that's a good thing ;D!
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AVNevis
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I'm not a television expert, but I have to wonder, how much does CBS really get out of this deal on the national scale? I imagine it is pretty big in the South, but what about affiliates on the West Coast, for example? How many people will tune in to watch an early season game that is between two teams from across the country?
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kyscott
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I'm always worried in the back of my mind that ESPN will get their hands totally on the SEC. Keeping the afternoon games on CBS will keep some sanity to the broadcasts. Now if we can only do something about this Raycom/Jeff Pilot/Lincolin Financian people.
kyscott said:
If the SEC goes ahead with plans to launch its own network, then the problem regarding regionally syndicated games is gone. However, they'll have to take care of that soon; otherwise, it's many more years of SEC football on Raycom. As for the start time: I don't know whose idea it was to have these games start at 12:30 p.m., but that must change.
JayR said:
What's wrong with the 12:30 ET games (that don't actually kick off until 1pm ET, 12 noon central)? They aren't marquee matchups but they're an SEC game you can watch at home, either on free TV or basic cable.
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kyscott
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JayR said:
Actually, given the choice of the lesser of the two evils, I'll take Raycom/JP/Lincoln over an SEC network any day. I have seen the troubles that the Big 10 has had with their network and would perfer to be able to see my Dawgs on Raycom/JP/Lincoln verses not seeing them because the boneheads at Insight want to add another MTV channel that will get them more corn per sub.
The biggest problem with the 12:30 PM ET start time for Raycom games is that it can cause an overlap with college football from CBS, ABC, or NBC, and Major League Baseball on Fox since in many cases the start times are 3:00 or 3:30 ET. In Jackson, TN WJKT hasn't carried early season games from Lincoln Financial the past couple of seasons because of overlapping with baseball on Fox, which I assmue they're obligated to carry. It seems to me that it would be better to push the start time back to at least Noon ET to cut down on the possibility of overlap.
Unlike the Midwest I believe the South would rise if all of a sudden the SEC early games went on an "exclusive network".
Lots of smaller TV stations make their money off those Lincoln Financial games.
Too bad Southern stations have to take the FOX New York Yankee/Boston Red Sox game of the week
Lots of smaller TV stations make their money off those Lincoln Financial games.
Too bad Southern stations have to take the FOX New York Yankee/Boston Red Sox game of the week
anotherguy said:
I'm not in favor of pushing the game to 12 ET, have you ever tried going to one of these games live? It's misery. The best part of SEC football is the atmosphere on campus, tailgating, etc. All of that is lost with an early kickoff. I really feel for those in central time. 11:30 am? ouch.
As we used to say at UT: "Jefferson Pilot, responsible for more pre-noon campus drinking than any other organization in the world."
anotherguy said:
That's more of an affiliate problem than it is Raycom's problem, isn't it? I can understand CBS, ABC, and to a much smaller extent, NBC (of which I'll get into later). Fox, CW, My, Ion, or indie, they don't any Saturday sports to worry about for most of the fall.
I'm aware of Fox's national sports obligations (evidenced by why their interruption of MLB baseball coverage to catch the start of a NASCAR race earlier this year). I didn't think those obligations necessarily extended to its affiliates. My reason for thinking this is because Raycom's 'flagship' station, WSFA-TV 12 in Montgomery, AL, is an NBC affiliate...one that has pre-empted Notre Dame football and NBC golf telecasts for years with...you guessed it, Jefferson Pilot/Lincoln Financial/Raycom Sports SEC football.
To be fair, I think WSFA 12 had gotten away with this by putting NBC Sports coverage on its DTV subchannel or the former The WB 100+ cable channel it once ran. And at worst, Fox baseball fans would be missing the starts of the games and not the finishes, right? They could do the same thing effectively.
On the heels of this landmark deal, sports columnist Tony Barnhart, of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, wrote the following:
Reading on, you can see why ESPN would consider making such a move. Aside from airing a game on either ESPN or ESPN2, they would also consider ESPNU and ESPN360 (UGH!). Whatever is left over ESPN "could sell back to a group like Raycom or even Comcast."
Comcast? Versus? CSS? Both? No matter. The idea stinks.
Reading on, you can see why ESPN would consider making such a move. Aside from airing a game on either ESPN or ESPN2, they would also consider ESPNU and ESPN360 (UGH!). Whatever is left over ESPN "could sell back to a group like Raycom or even Comcast."
Comcast? Versus? CSS? Both? No matter. The idea stinks.
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