CBS gets Big East hoops rights

[orangedave]

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...cbs-acquires-rights-big-east-basketball-games

 

[Ghost]

Man, that sucks for CBS.

 

[Madbiker]

The Big East website lists the complete basketball TV schedule. It's a lot of games and gives those teams a lot of coverage. I noted that Providence has 14 TV games mostly on Fox Sports1 and CBSSN. Not as big an audience as being on ESPN but TV nonetheless. That has to be more TV appearances than their last 10 years combined.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

In the first year of the deal, CBS will broadcast two games and CBS Sports Network will air 18.
Beginning with the 2014-15 season, CBS Sports will have the right to up to 30 men's basketball games per year, with up to five on CBS.

 

[Shermthegeneral]

I'm shocked that Fox gave that up actually! They are trying to build a sports network and you need content.

 

[pfister1]

For their sake I hope it came with rights to the library of historical games.

 

[Marsh01]

weak

 

[Widget24]

Good for that mid major. How cute.

 

[longtimefan]

I'm shocked that Fox gave that up actually! They are trying to build a sports network and you need content.

Doesn't make sense for Fox--unless they don't think much of the Big East.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

There will be 90 BE Conference games this season, plus the BET.

CBS and CBSSN have only 20 of them.

 

[PeteCalvin]

There will be 90 BE Conference games this season, plus the BET.

CBS and CBSSN have only 20 of them.

Where are the rest?

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Where are the rest?

FoxSports 1 & 2

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools...f/2013-14/misc_non_event/bigeast_schedule.pdf

 

[realorange]

There will be 90 BE Conference games this season, plus the BET.

CBS and CBSSN have only 20 of them.

Of course you could ask yourself "are there going to be more than 20 games in the Big East that will be worth watching"?

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Of course you could ask yourself "are their going to be more than 20 games in the Big East that will be worth watching"?

That Seton Hall-DePaul tilt is an annual barnburner.

This year they get to play twice.

 

[PoppyHart]

Not sure why it's so hip to bash the other conferences, but whatever.

I'd personally rather have EVERY game televised nationally on Fox and CBS networks with no worries about blackouts, then have to (1) watch in crappy SD via Full Court, (2) miss games entirely b/c they are OTA broadcasts on CNY or channel 5 in Blacksburg or channel 9 in Tallahassee, or (3) watch on an ESPN3 site that you never know when it's going to be blacked out or go into buffering mode.

 

[senorpalmer]

After the acc and big ten, the big east will still probably be as good as any conference in america, at least in the short term.

 

[orange2win]

Whatever games CBS, Fox and ESPN do not pick-up will be shown by MSG and SNY. The deals have already been cut. I doubt there will be any SU games that are not available outside the black-out area. Great stuff.

 

[CPark Orange]

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...cbs-acquires-rights-big-east-basketball-games

Who cares???

 

[orangedave]

Who cares???

I expect there will be Big East matchups I will want to watch. No different than when we were Big East and I would watch ACC, B1G, B12, PAC12 games. Don't know if it will last but right now I'm still interested in seeing St Johns, 'Nova, Georgetown and, yes, even .