May your Saturday evenings now be filled with background sounds of marching bands and brass.
On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 8:52 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > I hadn't really been paying attention, but a month or so ago, flicking > around the sports channels I have access to in the UK, I realised that all > the NCAA football here had disappeared. > > While I'd never say I was a massive fan, it was something to watch on a > Saturday evening. > > BT Sports used to carry it - for a long time they even had a channel > called BT ESPN where it all sat. The ESPN branding disappeared a year or so > ago. But BT Sports didn't renew, and nobody else covered it at all. > > That's not completely true. Sky Sports has Notre Dame games, which I > assume are a by product of their parent company NBC Comcast's deal with > Notre Dame. > > But that was it. And it was notable that during the NFL London games > recently, a lot of coverage was made of a scheme the NFL is supporting in > the UK - the NFL Academy at Loughborough University - to develop players > who will develop to get into the US college system. > > Anyway, midway through the season comes an email from NFL UK to say that > Sky Sports has done a deal and NCAA College Football, starting today, will > air on Sky Sports NFL (the channel that outside of > Sunday/late-Monday/late-Thursday otherwise just airs highlights and docs). > > I believe all the NCAA rights are bundled together here, but the schedule > for today is Louisville@Miami, Wake Forest@Notre Dame and > Washington@Oregon St, so make of that what you will. > > My suspicion as ever is that very little money is changing hands based on > the last minute mid-season deal. > > > Adam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGBCGR11wXffbDDCV%2BhTBoPwS6Hz80TBMRTTeZrEd6NPvQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGBCGR11wXffbDDCV%2BhTBoPwS6Hz80TBMRTTeZrEd6NPvQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1BrfuNuxMuj1HJZi%2B9Li6ggmE3-5odjxhA79iQ-29-b-Qw%40mail.gmail.com.
