Nowadays with ESPN 360 streaming all NCAA games (including bowls) over telco DSL (Verizon and AT&T, which serve three quarters of the country) and free to military and .edu's, this is less of an issue. (And Verizon, at least, lets you log on anywhere, so you can pick it up from some hotel room or the neighborhood Starbucks.) I may not have cable at home but I can access ESPN 360 coverage, and nowadays with ustream and those kind of services, it is trivial to pick those up on the Internet. I think I saw audience in the highfive figures on some of those ustreams of the TBS baseball coverage. Not a lot of folks, but not insignificant either.
Now if this was Versus or some similarly obscure network like that, I would object. ~C On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Tom Wolper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Mark J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > ESPN takes them away from Fox as of 2011 through 2013 (for the BCS > > championship) for $125M a year--it may not be pro sports, but it is > > the first major sports finals (unless you count the Stanley Cup > > finals) that is leaving broadcast TV: > > > > http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6615540.html?desc=topstory > > > > The Worldwide Leader says that their infamously high subscriber fees > > to cable systems will not go up as a result of this--right. > > ESPN noted that 95% of households who currently watch the top bowl > games have cable or satellite installed. > > Tom W > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
