Every SEC game to be televised for 15 years...

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...even the OOC games against the Charleston Southern's and directional Louisiana schools! To be bad us "out of towners" will be at our desk to watch Jax St on ESPN360! : - (

$3 billion paid to SEC over the next 15 years by ESPN ($2.25 billion) and CBS ($800 million).

From the Pensacola News Journal:

Some key elements of this TV deal:
- - Every SEC football game will be televised for the next 15 years. That's every single game.

- - There will be 5,500 SEC sports events broadcast on the ESPN family of networks for the next 15 years. That averages out to at least one SEC sports event each day during the length of the contract. It also allows for SEC broadcasts internationally.

- - ESPNU will add a mid-day game each Saturday during the regular season. Also, the new SEC Network, formerly Raycom Sports and Jefferson Pilot Sports, will continue with a weekly 11 a.m. broadcast.
Broadcasts of the SEC Network will be available in more than half the homes in America, including new distribution in cities such as Houston, Los Angeles and New York.

- - The league has retained digital rights in all sports and will launch the SEC Digital Network to allow fans to get all the online coverage they can handle. This will include availability on mobile devices.

To give you a sample of the opening weekend of SEC football this year:

Thursday, Sept. 3

South Carolina at N.C. State, 6 p.m., ESPN.

Saturday, Sept. 5

Kentucky at Miami (OH), 11 a.m., ESPNU.

Western Kentucky at Tennessee, 11 a.m., SEC Network.

Georgia at Oklahoma State, 2:30 p.m., ABC.

Jackson St. at Miss. St., 2:30 p.m., ESPNU.

Louisiana Tech at Auburn, 6 p.m., ESPNU.

Charleston State at Florida, 6 p.m., FSN.

Missouri State at Arkansas, 6 p.m., ESPN GamePlan.

Western Carolina at Vanderbilt, 6:30 p.m., ESPN GamePlan.

Alabama vs. Virginia Tech, 7 p.m., ABC.

LSU at Washington, 9:30 p.m., ESPN.
 
I hate all the SEC hoopla as much as the next guy, but this sample schedule doesn't bother me. They have one of the best commissioners in Slive and nailed a great deal. Honestly there are only 3 games on the prime time networks and I can't say that I won't be watching these 3 games. Personally I would like to see more conferences adopt their own television networks (i.e. Big 10 Network). That way I dont have to put up with hearing about Brittany Spears and Tebow's philanthropy while I'm watching a game.

That and it would allow me to watch other ACC sports year round. Face it - the ACC is stacked from sport to sport. Basketball, Football, Baseball, Soccer, Womens Basketball...
I just think it would benefit the conference.

For sports coverage....I tend to avoid espn because it actually makes me mad:mad:. www.deadspin.com - they hate espn as much as I do and have the best writers in the business imo.
 
The only thing that bothers me about this, is I fear that the coverage of games I give a **** about will go down. Why show a meaningful ACC game, when Arkansas is playing St. Mary's School for the Blind and Deaf.

What is ESPN going to do when Super Tebow is gone and UF, and UGA is back to mediocre?
 
Allen Koholic said:
The only thing that bothers me about this, is I fear that the coverage of games I give a **** about will go down. Why show a meaningful ACC game, when Arkansas is playing St. Mary's School for the Blind and Deaf.

What is ESPN going to do when Super Tebow is gone and UF, and UGA is back to mediocre?
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While I totally agree with your sentiment, I guess given the option of having the SEC rammed down my throat versus having the Big Televen rammed down my throat, I'd take the SEC.
 
So if Raycom and Jefferson is turning into the SEC network, who's going to broadcast regional ACC games?
 
O, how I love John Swofford.

When does the ACC renegotiate it's TV deal, and can we fire Swofford before that?
 
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as the saying goes,
"sell to the classes, live with the masses; sell to the masses, live with the classes."

semi-related Thoreau quotes:

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."

"So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we may not be reminded how inconsistent your deeds are with it; for all odor is but one form of advertisement of a moral quality, and if fair actions had not been performed, the lily would not smell sweet. The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal."

"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."
 
hiveredtech said:
...even the OOC games against the Charleston Southern's and directional Louisiana schools! To be bad us "out of towners" will be at our desk to watch Jax St on ESPN360! : - (

$3 billion paid to SEC over the next 15 years by ESPN ($2.25 billion) and CBS ($800 million).

From the Pensacola News Journal:

Some key elements of this TV deal:
- - Every SEC football game will be televised for the next 15 years. That's every single game.

- - There will be 5,500 SEC sports events broadcast on the ESPN family of networks for the next 15 years. That averages out to at least one SEC sports event each day during the length of the contract. It also allows for SEC broadcasts internationally.

- - ESPNU will add a mid-day game each Saturday during the regular season. Also, the new SEC Network, formerly Raycom Sports and Jefferson Pilot Sports, will continue with a weekly 11 a.m. broadcast.
Broadcasts of the SEC Network will be available in more than half the homes in America, including new distribution in cities such as Houston, Los Angeles and New York.

- - The league has retained digital rights in all sports and will launch the SEC Digital Network to allow fans to get all the online coverage they can handle. This will include availability on mobile devices.

To give you a sample of the opening weekend of SEC football this year:

Thursday, Sept. 3

South Carolina at N.C. State, 6 p.m., ESPN.

Saturday, Sept. 5

Kentucky at Miami (OH), 11 a.m., ESPNU.

Western Kentucky at Tennessee, 11 a.m., SEC Network.

Georgia at Oklahoma State, 2:30 p.m., ABC.

Jackson St. at Miss. St., 2:30 p.m., ESPNU.

Louisiana Tech at Auburn, 6 p.m., ESPNU.

Charleston State at Florida, 6 p.m., FSN.

Missouri State at Arkansas, 6 p.m., ESPN GamePlan.

Western Carolina at Vanderbilt, 6:30 p.m., ESPN GamePlan.

Alabama vs. Virginia Tech, 7 p.m., ABC.

LSU at Washington, 9:30 p.m., ESPN.
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Cha-ching! The rich get richer.:mad:
 
gth816f said:
So if Raycom and Jefferson is turning into the SEC network, who's going to broadcast regional ACC games?
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The ACC has to improve its product. If you are in Savannah and have a choice of watching Maryland v. Boston College or LSU v. Miss State which do you pick? Georgia Tech's alignment with the ACC being in Atlanta right in the heart of the SEC territory was always going to cause heartburn. The addition of Miami, VPI, and Boston College expanded the geography of the conference that was already stretched past the point of regional rivalry. Wake v. Duke will always be a hard sell in heart of Dixie when Tennessee v. Florida is on the other channel.
 
Yukonwreck said:
The ACC has to improve its product. If you are in Savannah and have a choice of watching Maryland v. Boston College or LSU v. Miss State which do you pick? Georgia Tech's alignment with the ACC being in Atlanta right in the heart of the SEC territory was always going to cause heartburn. The addition of Miami, VPI, and Boston College expanded the geography of the conference that was already stretched past the point of regional rivalry. Wake v. Duke will always be a hard sell in heart of Dixie when Tennessee v. Florida is on the other channel.
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Oh I know that. I was asking from a practical perspective; where am I going to be able to see these games? Or am I going to be able to see them? I would think that in Atlanta at least most Tech games have to be televised; this used to be done by Raycom/Jefferson, at least for the crappy ones. Who's going to do that?
 
This sucks. If I miss one freaking game this year because of this whole TV crap...Oh that's going to do it! Monopolizing TV slots should not be allowed, it's dumb no matter how much money is involved.
 
Yukonwreck said:
The ACC has to improve its product. If you are in Savannah and have a choice of watching Maryland v. Boston College or LSU v. Miss State which do you pick? Georgia Tech's alignment with the ACC being in Atlanta right in the heart of the SEC territory was always going to cause heartburn. The addition of Miami, VPI, and Boston College expanded the geography of the conference that was already stretched past the point of regional rivalry. Wake v. Duke will always be a hard sell in heart of Dixie when Tennessee v. Florida is on the other channel.
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Well that wasn't what he was worried about. He was worried that the Florida v Citadel and Ole Miss v Eastern Molasses games would be shown instead of Maryland v NC State or Georgia Tech v UNC.
 
gth816f said:
Oh I know that. I was asking from a practical perspective; where am I going to be able to see these games? Or am I going to be able to see them? I would think that in Atlanta at least most Tech games have to be televised; this used to be done by Raycom/Jefferson, at least for the crappy ones. Who's going to do that?
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This is true, at the very least, last years UNC game was on Raycom.
 
I don't think Raycom has become SEC Network, but rather the SEC is moving its games to their new network and thereby leaving Raycom. ACC games should still have local broadcasts on Raycom.
 
Since ESPN and the SEC are apprarently each other's bitch, I wonder how appropriate it is for ESPN to be associated with the coaches poll.
 
Here's how it works; someone correct me if I'm wrong. Raycom has both an (meaning just one) SEC game of the week and just one ACC g.o.w. The program is syndicated, just like Jerry Springer or a rerun of the Simpsons. It doesn't really have to do with a "region" or what a "local" viewership wants in a given week. I have lived in two or three markets that have both the SEC and ACC games of the week, usually running at the same time on different channels. Local preference does not enter the equation. It merely has to do with whether a local TV station in your area carries the syndicated program. Raycom will continue showing ACC games of the week despite its now forming an association called SEC Network. For example, Raycom has already announced its first two ACC games for the coming season (Stanford @ Wake on 9/12 and BC @ Clemson on 9/19). If you got the ACC g.o.w. last year and you have not moved, you will probably get it this year. If Raycom stops producing ACC g.o.w., some other joint will pick it up. ACC is unlikely to lose any TV coverage just because the SEC signed this deal.
 
I thought the SEC's deal with ESPN took the place of their deal with Raycom? Esentially, all the games that would have been on Raycom will now be on one of the ESPN channels. Am I mistaken?
 
BerryGT said:
I thought the SEC's deal with ESPN took the place of their deal with Raycom? Esentially, all the games that would have been on Raycom will now be on one of the ESPN channels. Am I mistaken?
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That's correct. Raycom still exists, but they don't have any SEC games any more. ESPN will syndicate the lesser games now instead of Raycom.
 
Sounds like this games leaves Raycom and JPilot out in the cold on SEC games. We may get more ACC games covered as a result.
 
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