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anorris
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Posted: 7/30/2010 9:15 AM
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3 year deal, with minimum of 3 football games and 33 (!) basketball games per year, plus coverage of other championships such as volleyball, and various other programming.

This means the men's and women's basketball tournaments will finally have state-wide carriage, unlike the previous Fox Sports deal.

http://mac-sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9400&ATCLID=204971543
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Posted: 7/30/2010 10:20 AM
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Sounds like a good deal. It would be nice if Ohio gets at least one football game on there this fall.
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Posted: 7/30/2010 10:35 AM
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I hope that these get picked up by ESPN3.
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Posted: 7/30/2010 6:01 PM
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Flomo-genized wrote:expand_more
I hope that these get picked up by ESPN3.
It seems likely, as I understand it, the MAC sells the media rights to ESPN, who resells games to these other broadcasters, but typically just broadcast rights, and they retain online distribution rights.  Given that the CSN Chicago Northern Illinois games and Time Warner Buffalo games are on ESPN3.com, I would be highly surprised if these STO broadcasts weren't.
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Posted: 7/31/2010 9:51 PM
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33 games a year, that's 3-4 per week!  And I'm guessing the games would include the contenders, which we hope to be in the near future, so you gotta figure most weeks will include a Bobcat game.  And even if it doesn't, it'll be great to see the other games.  This is great news.

Here's hoping they broadcast mostly away games, since I am either at the home games or able to watch online.
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Posted: 7/31/2010 10:34 PM
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May be a hair less than that, depending on how they count.  If they're counting the men's and women's tournaments, that is 13 games (4 quarters, 2 semis for each, plus the women's championship), assuming they do the same coverage as FSO did.  That leaves 20 regular season games, which would likely concentrate in the conference season, which is roughly ten weeks, so about 2 games a week, minimum, with far better availability than FSO.  It appears that local deals (NIU with CSN, BSSN and UB with the local Time Warner Cable) will continue as before, so general availability of the MAC should increase noticeably.
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Posted: 8/1/2010 11:31 PM
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STO is a great vehicle for all the Ohio MAC schools. STO is desperate for original programming during the Indians offseason. Heck, they run re-runs of the state softball tournament during afternoons during the summer. 

I'd have to imagine the broadcast schedule will be Kent State and Akron heavy, though.

Last Edited: 8/1/2010 11:31:49 PM by Brian Smith (No, not that one)
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Posted: 8/2/2010 11:00 AM
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Brian Smith wrote:expand_more
I'd have to imagine the broadcast schedule will be Kent State and Akron heavy, though.


I would think the order of importance would be 

Kent/ Akron (i would imagine Akron a little a head of Kent)
Ohio 


then again, i could be wrong. And this could all change based on the season everyone is having, or any hype from our run last year. 
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Posted: 8/2/2010 12:07 PM
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Ohio vs Wofford on a Saturday night! What more reason do you need to stay home?
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