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Big Ten Network to expand streaming initiative | www.jconline.com | Journal and Courier CHICAGO - Selected basketball games and other contests will be available online, allowing fans to enjoy bonus coverage of Big Ten sports. The Big Ten Network will expand its streaming initiative to include...

Network to Air Commercial-Free Show at Halftime of Ohio State-USC Game - Big Ten Network CHICAGO – The Big Ten Network will televise a special, commercial-free version of Big Ten Tonight during halftime of Saturday night's highly anticipated match-up between No. 1 USC and No. 5 Ohio State...

Big Ten Network, Time Warner reach deal - Don Walker: Business of Sports "Time Warner cable and the Big Ten Network have reached agreement on a carriage deal that will allow University of Wisconsin athletic events to be carried on the cable system. Two sources with knowledge of the agreement...

according to today's Sports Business Journal Article (subscription required). ESPN pays $2.25B for SEC rights Highlights from the article include: As expected, there will be no SEC Network. Raycom will no longer syndicate SEC games. ESPN will receive all rights not sold to CBS. ESPNU and...

Long press release with all of the ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Classic, ESPN360 and ESPN Radio game windows. Also, major increase in HD coverage as every ESPNU Thursday and Saturday game will be in HD. ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN360.com, ESPN Classic, ESPN Mobile TV and ESPN Radio...

Florida signed a huge deal with Fox sports for media rights such as local TV, replays, broadband and radio. The article below from the Orlando Business Journal and Sports Business Journal is co-authored by John Ourand, one of the best in the business and Ourand speculates that this deal means...

The only surprise is that they did not add any additional night games so the 12:00 ET slot is very crowded with BTN games, with 4-5 every week. Big Ten Announces Football Television Plans for First Four Weekends of 2008 Home Schedule :: Every conference home contest to be televised for...

Sometime soon, maybe next week, maybe next month and at least by the time August gives way to September, the SEC will announce its new football television deals. The current contracts (with CBS, ESPN and Raycom), which run out at the end of the 2008-09 academic year, were worth $50 million...

Although the SEC has defeated the Big Ten (e.g. Ohio State) in the last two BCS national championships, overall, both conferences are very similar and very competitive in both football and men's basketball. For example, in the last 15 years or so when the current Big Ten vs. SEC bowl matchups...

Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN cable sports network is in talks to form a partnership with the National Football League's NFL Network, according to people familiar with the situation. Steven Bornstein, chief executive of the NFL Network and previously chairman of ESPN and president of Disney's ABC...

"The University of Notre Dame and NBC Sports have reached agreement on a new five-year contract giving NBC the rights to televise Irish home football games from 2011 to 2015, extending the partnership between the University and network to 25 years. * * * Each season from 2011 to 2015, NBC...

according to Teddy Greenstein of the Chicago Tribune. Big Ten Network, Comcast ready to call a truce -- chicagotribune.com Expected terms of the deal include: Expanded basic coverage in eight state Big Ten region (other than Philadelphia). Price is $0.70 -- $0.80 per sub in Big Ten...

http://www.espnmediazone.com/press_releases/2008_06_jun/20080603_SECandACCFootballSelections.htm Date Time (ET) Network Game Thu., Aug. 28 7 p.m. ESPNU Vanderbilt at Miami (Ohio) * 7:30 p.m. ESPN360.com Jacksonville State at Georgia Tech 7:30 p.m. ESPN360.com Charleston Southern at Miami 8...

The familiar trio of Mike Greenberg, Mike Golic and Pro Football Hall of Famer Mike Ditka will call the West Coast game for the second consecutive year in ESPN’s season-opening Monday Night Football doubleheader -- Denver Broncos vs. Oakland Raiders on September 8 at 10:15 p.m. ET. The game...

In today's Sports Business Journal, John Ourand (who is one of the best in the business) and Michael Smith have some inside scoop on the status of the SEC negotiations on its new television package. Highlights of the article include: The SEC is looking for more broadcast windows from CBS for...

according to this article from Louisiana: 2theadvocate.com | LSU Sports | Raycom hopes to continue SEC ties — Baton Rouge, LA "Rayburn said all of Raycom’s SEC football games, and most of its SEC basketball games, will be televised in high-definition this coming season." Hopefully...

Decision-makers for the SEC will spend a lot of time this week talking about TV as the league gathers for its annual SEC spring meetings at the Sandestin Beach Hilton. The meetings officially begin today and will continue through Friday. . . Future television contracts top SEC meetings'...

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell raised the possibility of having a 17th regular-season game as an option to help settle some of the league's future labor problems. "We are actually looking at that as one alternative," Goodell said Tuesday at the NFL owners meeting in Atlanta, the same day that...

ATLANTA -- The NFL owners voted unanimously Tuesday to end their agreement with the players' union in 2011, two years before the deal was to expire. The league, however, emphasized that it will keep negotiating with the NFL Players Association and said games will be played "without threat of...

LOS ANGELES - (Business Wire) Today at the annual NCTA conference in New Orleans, FSN Networks President Randy Freer announced that FSN, the industry’s largest group of regional sports networks, will begin transitioning to round-the-clock HD telecasts in the first quarter of 2009. This...

By all accounts, the BTN is close to announcing a carriage agreement with Comcast. Today, WCMH in Columbus, Ohio announced that the BTN and Time Warner were set to resume negotiations. This is significant in that Time Warner has negotiated with the BTN for several months and Time Warner has...

Al Michaels will not spend any of his Thursday nights in November and December working for the NFL Network after all. The channel looked into hiring Michaels, the play-by-play voice of NBC’s “Sunday Night Football,” a few weeks ago. “NBC was open to it, but it didn’t work out from Al’s point of...

Many homecoming games and two BTN night games announced. Big Ten releases homecoming game times for 2008 season - Big Ten Network

From today's Richard Sandomir column in the New York Times . . . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/sports/tennis/12sandomir.html?scp=1&sq=sandomir&st=nyt

From Michael McCarthy's USA Today column . . . Versus might take shot at puck tracking for NHL telecasts - USATODAY.com