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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3642457, member: 27"]
Very interesting.

It sure look like they are going forward with this.  How would this impact the agreements these RSNs have made with conferences like the ACC, B12 and Pac12?

I can’t see fans of college games going crazy subscribing to these channels to get their games.  The ACC sells rights to something in the range of 15-17 football games to the RSNs each season.  I think the number for basketball is a little higher.  20-25.  Something like that.  Most of the games are OOC, they are the most unattractive games possible and most schools have 1 or 2 games televised on the RSNs a season.

I think going to this model changes things significantly.  There will be a lot less subscribers.  Does it really matter if there is a small amount of content most subscribers do not care about a few times a year, if there is no longer going to be a linear channel?  Who cares about finding more content to flesh out your channel when it isn’t a channel any longer, but really a pay service?  I can see the RSNs will really have incentive to pay up the rights to other pro sports (baseball, basketball and hockey, maybe soccer).  But college athletics doesn’t seem to fit.  The markets aren’t going to line up well and there would be a lot of conflicts and I think the fan base is often inherently different.

So I am hopeful the agreements between the RSNs and the conferences will be voided, since they do not make sense for either side.  The conferences should be able to make more money off this content via other means, where the fans can more easily and consistently access the broadcasts.
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