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Should the SEC launch a 24/7 Network?

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Commisioner Mike Slive said on SEC Media Days yesterday that they will consider launching a network if they will provide national coverage of sports outside

of football and basketball. With their recent sucess in both of those fields, they have enough money to launch it.

However, in football, they have gotten plenty of exposure thanks to their deals with Raycom in the early afternoons, CBS in the late afternoons, and ESPN at

night.

So would they jeopradize it for a network that may not be seen in less than 50% of the country in the first year ?

I don't how much exposure the Big Ten Network gets, but I don't think the channel is in a WHOLE LOT OF households heading into it's second year.

It's a huge risk, in my opinion.
 
I think the Big Ten's experience is enough to make other major conferences not want to launch their own networks. When Comcast (the major cable provider in much of the Big Ten's footprint) agreed to carry B10 Net this year, it was a topic of discussion on Indianapolis Tonight on WIBC. There were two camps of callers:

1) I want IU / Purdue back on the free airwaves
2) Big Ten Network isn't worth it. Too much wrestling.

Truly, with the exception of about 60 days of the year, Big Ten network is a waste of bandwidth.
 
The SEC pretty much led the way 10-15 years ago making deals with the national networks. I don't understand why they would want to tick off the national rights holders for the sake of having a network that is going to be hard to get carriage for. Like ptboardop said, look at the trouble that the Big 10 is having. If they are gonna do something like that, do it online. I'd rather keep the stuff on the national networks.
 
With regards to football: the only one who will lose out should the SEC launch its own network are Raycom Sports (regional syndication) and those networks who air certain games on pay-per-view as part of a deal (i.e., Sun Sports with Florida Gators).

There is no way the SEC would want to give up their deal with the likes of CBS and ESPN (unless if FOX made them a broadcast deal they couldn't refuse*).


*The thought of the SEC on FOX makes my stomach cringe but, in business, anything can happen.

SEC On CBS.
 
kyscott said:
The SEC pretty much led the way 10-15 years ago making deals with the national networks. I don't understand why they would want to tick off the national rights holders for the sake of having a network that is going to be hard to get carriage for. Like ptboardop said, look at the trouble that the Big 10 is having. If they are gonna do something like that, do it online. I'd rather keep the stuff on the national networks.
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But they aren't going to put everything on the SEC Network. The same mistake is made with assumptions behind the NFL Network. They want the 'superfans' willing to pay, not the Joe Blow viewers happy with whatever game comes on free TV. The broadcasters have the distribution and (more importantly) the cash. The Sunday/Saturday slate of games on broadcast network television were never in any danger of going anywhere.

(Speaking of the NFL Network...one wonders just how much of a problem it would have with cable coverage if there were no DirecTV exclusivity for NFL Sunday Ticket. Surely I can't be the only one who's thought of that.)
 
Hi everyone:

Albeit on a MUCH smaller scale, there's also the Mountain West Conference's own network called the MTN. It's ONLY clearance has been on Comcast's Digital Sports package & on DirecTV. That network can't even get DISH Network to carry them.

Here's the website for them - http://www.themtn.tv/

Cheers :)

Pat
 
When I saw the title of the thread, I honestly thought you were referring to the Securities Exchange Commission trying to take the silly "transparency of financial statements" cliche to the max. 24-7 coverage of accountants discussing FASB's. :-[
 
Pat Cook said:
Hi everyone:
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Hey Pat.

Pat Cook said:
Albeit on a MUCH smaller scale, there's also the Mountain West Conference's own network called the MTN. It's ONLY clearance has been on Comcast's Digital Sports package & on DirecTV. That network can't even get DISH Network to carry them.
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The MWC is regarded as a mid-major conference. It doesn't have the draw that an SEC has.
 
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