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Buying Time Warner as well, so they'll get Dallas, Austin and SA soon.
Yeah, SEC network will have a ton of problems with CSN. Just like the Astros, and Rockets.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/prishe/2...carriage-deal/On Friday, the conference’s new network also scored a large carriage deal that may open the floodgates for similar deals with America’s biggest cable providers.
The SEC Network landed a long-term carriage deal with Comcast, the country’s biggest distributor. The network will air starting August 14 on Comcast’s expanded basic tier within SEC territory and digital basic outside of it. The Comcast deal pushes SEC Network’s distribution footprint to 46 million homes, including carriage on AT&T, Cox and Dish Network.
In an excellent example of price discrimination, sources say the channel’s rate card is at $1.40 per subscriber per month within the SEC’s 11-state footprint and $0.25 per month outside of it. Nothing like knowing your demographics. The more rabid and passionate the fan base, the greater their demand inelasticity and thus willingness to pay.
Though the goal of the net is to reach 75 million homes upon launch, this goal is likely attainable given that there is a high likelihood that deals will be established with DirecTV and Time Warner Cable within the next month.
That'll be good for the other conferences too.
Insane money.
"The Longhorn Network is the least successful network launch in ESPN history and the SEC Network is the most successful network launch in ESPN history."
"As a result the fleeing members of the Big 12 -- Nebraska, Colorado, Texas A&M and Missouri are going to end up making more money off the Longhorn Network than Texas is. If Texas doesn't start the Longhorn Network all of those schools probably stay in the Big 12 and make much less money. Instead, they bolted and will end up better off than Texas will."
http://www.foxsports.com/college-foo...re-dame-072314
that guy needs a decent editor, badly.
That's what you got out of that?
yeah, it was painful to read, chock full of logical fallacies, and puzzling that he would get paid for it. Would you rather i say, UT MAKES MORE MONEY OVERALL SO WHO GIVES A ?
You sound upset
yeah it was a bad article.
I'll wait for Forbes to give us some real numbers.
Not in the slightest, I don't pay for cable TV anymore. Although I would agree that the last thing we need is more conference networks. They should just offer them via online subscription tbh
"SEC alum likes SEC network."
Groundbreaking work.
I will agree that the LHN model was pretty shortsighted. Socialist agreements like the one Texas A&M entered are the way to go.
Ill agree with you there.
LHN is good for capitalist pig UT.
Kansas and West Virginia seem to be doing well with their tier 3 deals.
Tech's tier 3 Fox Sports deal seems to be somewhere in the middle of $0 and UT's ESPN deal
Yeah, we'll find out when all the revenues are actually added up. Given the death of national media markets in the Big 12-4+2, the local/regional appeal of the non-UT schools might actually work better for them via tier 3.
A school like Iowa State might need some SEC-type socialism in time, but all the schools seem to be in it for the long run.
I'm just glad *almost* all the lolUTSA games are on TV this season. Be happy you can argue over such TV contracts.
Yeah, Vandy wouldn't trade places with Iowa St for anything.
I wonder though if Arky would.....
Seriously???
Look who wrote the article, all you need to know about that BS.
According to the last numbers I saw, the SEC network could pay the Ags 40 million to the ags and they would still be 40 million behind the Longhorns.
Last edited by Vito Corleone; 07-23-2014 at 05:41 PM.
arky is not going back to a conference with Texas in it.
I'm sure you're the authority on Arkansas.
Go ask on Arkansas board (whatever that is) and report back.
No way Arkansas would leave the SEC for the Big 12. They left the SWC for the SEC already. Not going back.
Yeah, Arky is doing swell, racking up all dem SEC les.
when I mentioned it, I forgot about the huge amount of money a school has to fork out to leave, so it's a moot point.
But I guarantee when that movie comes out about the horn/arky game of '69(?) that a lot of razorback fans will reminisce of how good they had it in the SWC and how much of an easier path to a le shot they'd now have had they stayed.
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