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GhostOfJackie

GhostOfJackie

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Thats great news and is long awaited. I wonder how long it will take for all the major providers to pick it up? I've got the BIG10 Network right now.
 
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patdog

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I get the Big 10 channel with the sports tier that I pay all of $5 per month for. It's got several good sports channels and is a great bargain.
 
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MadDawg.sixpack

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Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, plaease, please, please, please, please, please let this be the end off the CSS contract. Please?
 
Maroon Eagle

Maroon Eagle

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From the Sports Business Daily Journal...

From the article:

The Southeastern Conference has completed the buy-back of its TV, digital and sponsorship rights from third parties, clearing the final hurdles to launch its TV channel with ESPN next year.

The conference and ESPN will make a formal announcement on the yet-to-be-named SEC channel, which will launch in August 2014, at an event Tuesday in Atlanta.

Like the Big Ten Network and Pac-12 Networks, the SEC’s version will be a national channel, with broad distribution within the SEC’s territory and sports-tier carriage elsewhere. Over the next 15 months, the conference will work with ESPN to build out its operation, possibly in Charlotte at ESPN Regional Television, and hire a staff, all while beginning talks with distributors.

The conference channel cleared its biggest obstacle in recent weeks when it reacquired the third-tier TV rights from IMG College, Learfield Sports and CBS Collegiate Sports Properties, the three rights holders that work with the conference’s 14 schools. Those third-tier TV rights represent one football game, eight men’s basketball games, baseball, women’s basketball and all other nonrevenue sports that are not picked up by ESPN or a syndicated partner.

Those live games will move to ESPN for the conference channel, which is an important development because it means that ESPN will control the entire inventory of SEC football games, with the exception of CBS’s single game each week. That gives ESPN a lot of flexibility to use specific games in markets where it’s having trouble gaining distribution. If, for example, one of Louisiana’s biggest distributors, Cox, is holding out and not agreeing to carry the channel, it will be easier for ESPN to place more LSU games on it to help it gain more leverage in those negotiations...
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You can read the whole article here.
 
Maroon Eagle

Maroon Eagle

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ESPN Regional Television is based in Charlotte...

It was mentioned in the sportsbusinessdaily link in my original post that the primary sales outlet would be in Atlanta.
 
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engie

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woozman said:
Why Charlotte (no SEC schools in NC) and not the ATL?
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ESPNU headquarters are there.

The network will be on practically every basic tier in the SEC footprint when it is launched in August 2014. The deals have already been cut with many of the major providers ahead of the announcement -- this is something they've learned from the LHN and PAC-12 negotiations. Thus, they will be able to give us a "starting sum" of what the network is worth based on what has already been negotiated.

It will NOT be the long, drawn-out ordeal that the B1G network was. At least not inside the footprint. Why? Because there will be wars in the southeast with cable companies that hold out -- while a large percentage of the midwest doesn't care about college football on the same level -- AND because ESPN has alot more power with cable companies than fox sports(the 51% owner of the B1G network)...
 
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RocketDawg

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Hopefully Dish will carry it from the beginning. For some reason, Dish still doesn't have ESPNU in HD, so maybe they have some issues with ESPN?
 
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