Terps and Big 10 TV Trouble
Turns out the Maryland marriage to the Big 10 may not be as smooth as we all hoped. Interesting article out of Baltimore Business Journal today saying there is no guarantee that Maryland games will be on the Big 10 network. You can read the whole article Here.
To summarize, Maryland could have as many as two football and 15 basketball games go untelevised once they join the Big 10. Turns out Maryland is being used as a pawn by the Big Ten Network, who wants their network to be on the basic tier for local cable distributors and not the sports tier. Which means we can look forward to more cable wars and propaganda going into the 2014 season.
I’m not going to pretend to know about how this business works, so I’ll let the article speak for itself, but I do find it frustrating that we are already being jerked around. The article may be a little less cynical than I am, but I just don’t see the point of going from a conference we founded to being a piece in a game so that others can gain leverage. Call me old fashion in that sense.
Anyway, hopefully this gets straightened out, and Loh and Wallace get their money.
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December 11th, 2012 at 9:16 pm
Ehhh, by the time we get there they will work that out. Although from my time time in Dallas, a lot of people were without the Longhorn network there. So I guess it doesn’t always work out in the end, but I expect this will, or Anderson and Loh will have a lot of explaining to do.
December 12th, 2012 at 12:43 pm
Chicken is coming for your ass. You gone.
December 15th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
I’m figuring that by the time UMD and Rutgers make the move to the Big Ten that the conference and Comcast will be gouging me and other Comcast subscribers for even more money to watch an “enhanced” cable package that includes more UMD games. I’m just cynical that way…
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