New York Times reported that Wimbledon becomes exclusively live to cable.
OTOH ESPN3 has been good at carrying the BCS games and Sunday Night
Baseball. As long as the rightholders don't block it, they seem content in
streaming, in order to provide value to the ISP.

On Jul 3, 2011, at 6:52 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote:


What this means in the end is that ESPN got Wimbledon because, for all its
problems, ESPN is still primarily about televising sports, while NBC is not.
I suspect those with non-cable access will be able to watch early rounds
online on ESPN3, and the Finals (maybe even the semis) will be on ABC. I
think even NBC this year said that the Finals were available online today
with some kind of special DVR features.

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