Extended through 2012-13 season.
now just waiting to see what happens with the CBS CS deal. It expired after this season.
I hope we can get something better because what we currently have is awful. I do like that TWC picked up the CBS CS-Regional games the past two seasons, but they put them on an obscure digital cable channel that plays nothing else. It’d be nice if they could put them on something that would get more viewers.
I’d be super happy if we could get a TV contract that had a provision that at least 1 game per team would be broadcast from their home arena and at least each team in the conference will be in 2 broadcast games. Is that too much to ask in a 32 game contract?
Small potatoes. Only 16 games per season on any of those networks out of the 308 games A10 teams play. We need some kind of deal to get to get at least 200 of the other games on a viewable channel, and all of the other ones need to be easily viewable via the internet. Anything less just isn’t acceptable for a conference of our magnitude. I’d be happy if all of our games would at least be on the FullCourt package. None of them are on there now.
[quote=“X-49er, post:4, topic:25281”]Small potatoes. Only 16 games per season on any of those networks out of the 308 games A10 teams play. We need some kind of deal to get to get at least 200 of the other games on a viewable channel, and all of the other ones need to be easily viewable via the internet. Anything less just isn’t acceptable for a conference of our magnitude. I’d be happy if all of our games would at least be on the FullCourt package. None of them are on there now.[/quote]It is 32 games per season, not 32 total.
The A10 has successful programs, but outside of X & Dayton, it doesn’t have big fan bases. You can make an argument for CHarlotte (when successful), URI, and Temple, but other than that, we’re talking small schools with limited fan bases. That just isn’t very attractive to television networks.
It really wouldn’t shock me to see the CAA get a better TV contract than the A10 in the near future.
[quote=“Niner National, post:5, topic:25281”][quote=“X-49er, post:4, topic:25281”]Small potatoes. Only 16 games per season on any of those networks out of the 308 games A10 teams play. We need some kind of deal to get to get at least 200 of the other games on a viewable channel, and all of the other ones need to be easily viewable via the internet. Anything less just isn’t acceptable for a conference of our magnitude. I’d be happy if all of our games would at least be on the FullCourt package. None of them are on there now.[/quote]It is 32 games per season, not 32 total.
The A10 has successful programs, but outside of X & Dayton, it doesn’t have big fan bases. You can make an argument for CHarlotte (when successful), URI, and Temple, but other than that, we’re talking small schools with limited fan bases. That just isn’t very attractive to television networks.
It really wouldn’t shock me to see the CAA get a better TV contract than the A10 in the near future.[/quote]
Thanks. I misread it. Well that’s a little better, but that still leaves 276 that need to be broadcast somewhere they can be easily viewed. Those small fanbases aren’t ever going to grow much if the games can rarely be scene on TV.
[quote=“Niner National, post:5, topic:25281”][quote=“X-49er, post:4, topic:25281”]Small potatoes. Only 16 games per season on any of those networks out of the 308 games A10 teams play. We need some kind of deal to get to get at least 200 of the other games on a viewable channel, and all of the other ones need to be easily viewable via the internet. Anything less just isn’t acceptable for a conference of our magnitude. I’d be happy if all of our games would at least be on the FullCourt package. None of them are on there now.[/quote]It is 32 games per season, not 32 total.
The A10 has successful programs, but outside of X & Dayton, it doesn’t have big fan bases. You can make an argument for CHarlotte (when successful), URI, and Temple, but other than that, we’re talking small schools with limited fan bases. That just isn’t very attractive to television networks.
It really wouldn’t shock me to see the CAA get a better TV contract than the A10 in the near future.[/quote]
Ugh more of this CAA nonsense…
I’m hoping for some Fox Sports… maybe the radio deal will encourage that? Probably not. But hey!
[quote=“zerogeneticsdc, post:8, topic:25281”]I’m hoping for some Fox Sports… maybe the radio deal will encourage that? Probably not. But hey![/quote]Would be nice for sure. They already have a relationship with X.
I would personally rather there be no new television contract than what we previously had. At least then we can try to find someone to carry games on our own or produce them ourselves.
Surely we can get on CW or something in Charlotte. Hell, when I was a freshman we had some games on PBS. Even that is better than what we had. At least that is an over the air station.
Fox has two television stations in Charlotte, certainly we can get our games on one of them. If Davidson and the Southern Conference can have their games on, why can’t Charlotte?
Does anyone in the athletic department work on these things?