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Post by coloradokidd on Aug 19, 2014 20:12:27 GMT -5
WOW! With ESPN running and bankrolling the SEC Network, the B1G and Pac12 are going to be hard pressed to keep up. Here is just a 2 day listing of volleyball matches available on the SEC Network Aug. 29-30.
Aug. 29 Iowa vs. Texas A&M Southern vs. Florida Tulane vs. Texas A&M Wichita State vs. Kentucky Gardner-Webb vs. South Carolina Idaho vs. Florida Tennessee State vs. Arkansas
Aug. 30 Butler vs. Kentucky Stephen F. Austin vs. Arkansas Jacksonville vs. South Carolina Oklahoma vs. Florida UTSA vs. Texas A&M Georgia Tech vs. South Carolina Michigan vs. Arkansas Virginia Tech vs. Kentucky
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Post by jasonr on Aug 19, 2014 20:26:18 GMT -5
I hear they're going to make a lot of stir fry with the revenue generated by that netwok.
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Post by jasonr on Aug 19, 2014 20:27:24 GMT -5
Or...BS money talks and netwoks?
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Post by alpacaone on Aug 19, 2014 20:27:41 GMT -5
Sure wish DirectTV would have negotiated ESPN3 along with SEC Network!!!
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Post by jgrout on Aug 19, 2014 20:29:03 GMT -5
The B1G's partner in the BTN (Fox Sports, which operates it and owns 51% of the venture) is less visibly involved than ESPN is with the SEC Network. The Pac-12 Networks (one national, six regional) are 100% owned and operated by Pac-12 member institutions.
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Post by Mocha on Aug 19, 2014 20:31:46 GMT -5
The SEC is a couple of years late with their own network and will have a smaller audience. Many parts of the film version of Borat were shot in southern states because of the low number of households with cable television in the south.
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Post by jgrout on Aug 19, 2014 20:33:02 GMT -5
Here is just a 2 day listing of volleyball matches available on the SEC Network Aug. 29-30. A SEC member institution is missing from your list. That is more significant to me than the number of matches televised before basketball season, when volleyball will be very far behind football, men's basketball and women's basketball. The Pac-12 has at least one WBB coach that would throw WVB on the fire and cheer while it burned... I assume the SEC has a good many more. If the SEC really valued WVB, they would make it a mandatory sport, WBB be damned, as the Pac-12 did several years ago.
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Post by dorothymantooth on Aug 19, 2014 20:35:27 GMT -5
Here is just a 2 day listing of volleyball matches available on the SEC Network Aug. 29-30. A SEC member institution is missing from your list. That is more significant to me than the number of matches televised before basketball season. If the SEC really valued WVB, they would make it a mandatory sport, as the Pac-12 did several years ago. Yeah, I'm just going to have to disagree with you here.
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Post by jgrout on Aug 19, 2014 20:38:59 GMT -5
Are you sure that no SEC institutions would drop WVB to help pay football and basketball players? I'm not.
I know that the Pac-12 WVB coaches had to lobby loud, long and hard behind the scenes to get any WVB onto the Pac-12 Networks after the start of WBB season. The first season, there pretty much wasn't any: the original plan was Web-only matches, but streaming capacity was quickly overwhelmed in practice (it doesn't have to be... MLB has a very robust Internet broadcast backbone that they have licensed to several other sports and BTN streams from their central Web site seem pretty robust as well). It will be interesting to see what happens with the SEC Network along those lines: if they can overflow live matches onto WatchESPN (limited to those who have SEC Network on cable) and allow delayed playback on ESPN3, they should have very good Web streaming (in terms of technical quality).
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Post by dorothymantooth on Aug 19, 2014 21:09:25 GMT -5
Are you sure that no SEC institutions would drop WVB to help pay football and basketball players? I'm not. I know that the Pac-12 WVB coaches had to lobby loud, long and hard behind the scenes to get any WVB onto the Pac-12 Networks after the start of WBB season. The first season, there pretty much wasn't any: the original plan was Web-only matches, but streaming capacity was quickly overwhelmed in practice (it doesn't have to be... MLB has a very robust Internet broadcast backbone that they have licensed to several other sports and BTN streams from their central Web site seem pretty robust as well). It will be interesting to see what happens with the SEC Network along those lines: if they can overflow live matches onto WatchESPN (limited to those who have SEC Network on cable) and allow delayed playback on ESPN3, they should have very good Web streaming (in terms of technical quality). I don't recall saying anything or seeing anything written on here about a program dropping volleyball to pay for football and basketball. I don't have any idea why you would be asking if I am sure they wouldn't?
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Post by elevationvb on Aug 19, 2014 22:48:22 GMT -5
The SEC is a couple of years late with their own network and will have a smaller audience. Many parts of the film version of Borat were shot in southern states because of the low number of households with cable television in the south. Don't think so.
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Post by elevationvb on Aug 19, 2014 22:59:41 GMT -5
Are you sure that no SEC institutions would drop WVB to help pay football and basketball players? I'm not. I know that the Pac-12 WVB coaches had to lobby loud, long and hard behind the scenes to get any WVB onto the Pac-12 Networks after the start of WBB season. The first season, there pretty much wasn't any: the original plan was Web-only matches, but streaming capacity was quickly overwhelmed in practice (it doesn't have to be... MLB has a very robust Internet broadcast backbone that they have licensed to several other sports and BTN streams from their central Web site seem pretty robust as well). It will be interesting to see what happens with the SEC Network along those lines: if they can overflow live matches onto WatchESPN (limited to those who have SEC Network on cable) and allow delayed playback on ESPN3, they should have very good Web streaming (in terms of technical quality). I believe every home volleyball match is going to be shown on the SECNetwork.
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Post by c4ndlelight on Aug 19, 2014 23:02:48 GMT -5
How many networks are there? A lot of those matches are simultaneous....
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Post by FOBRA on Aug 19, 2014 23:12:58 GMT -5
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Post by elevationvb on Aug 19, 2014 23:19:42 GMT -5
Yep. That makes more sense.
My aggie friends were saying all their home vb matches would be televised on the SECNetwork just like the Texas home matches on the LHN.
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