Dish Network/ Big Ten Network dispute

[ubuntuCAT]

What the crap? So after midnight tonight no Big Ten Network on Dish?

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20120831/NEWS01/308310053/DISH-Network-verge-dropping-Big-Ten-Network?odyssey=nav%7Chead

[ronfitch]

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What the crap? So after midnight tonight no Big Ten Network on Dish?

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/a...sey=nav%7Chead

Yeah, it's gotten some attention in Big Ten cities (even here in Minneapolis, even though it is the Gophers). I've been hearing commercials for Dish competition hyping it for the past month as the season draws near.

[PantherHawk]

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I have called several times as we are having a gamewatch party at our house and we have DISH! The customer service rep I just spoke to said there will be a deal made at midnight. But I can't believe them.

I had to call a buddie who works for direct and he scheduled me in tomorrow morning. I have to call Direct TV for tomorrow at 9am, if BTN does get cut, he will send someone out to our house and hopefully get Direct in time for kick off!

Dish has dropped a lot of good channels, and I have a feeling if they drop this one, this will be the back breaker. They dropped AMC, SNY, and a couple of other channels that a lot of people liked.

[sivert]

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http://www.cfu.net/cable/btn2go.aspx

I don't know if this will be helpful.

[TH1974]

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I have called several times as we are having a gamewatch party at our house and we have DISH! The customer service rep I just spoke to said there will be a deal made at midnight. But I can't believe them.

I had to call a buddie who works for direct and he scheduled me in tomorrow morning. I have to call Direct TV for tomorrow at 9am, if BTN does get cut, he will send someone out to our house and hopefully get Direct in time for kick off!

Dish has dropped a lot of good channels, and I have a feeling if they drop this one, this will be the back breaker. They dropped AMC, SNY, and a couple of other channels that a lot of people liked.

Yeah, if they end up not settling with the BTN in the next week, I'm cancelling. They ended up giving me a decent deal when I called to complain about them dropping AMC, but this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

[PantherHawk]

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Yeah I agree with you, apparently fox is also in on the deal as well. So who knows, I really do not want to go to Direct as it is expensive, but if I can't watch UNI tomorrow I am going to have a house full of p!ssed off people.

[Newsbreaker]

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A customer service rep has no idea what the state of negotiations are. Dish has been more than willing to let channels go dark recently.

[Messenger]

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http://www.cfu.net/cable/btn2go.aspx

I don't know if this will be helpful.

BTN2go is great if you've got CFU Cable - you can watch the game on TV or online. But if Dish loses Big 10 Network on TV, then Dish customers won't be able to watch the game online at BTN2go.

[JayJ79]

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Yeah I agree with you, apparently fox is also in on the deal as well.

Fox owns 49% of the Big Ten Network (with 51% being owned by the conference). At least according to wiki.

So yes, Fox is involved.

Seems to be the gameplan of TV these days. Try to get popular and build a good block of viewers, then use that as leverage to get more money from the providers (cable/sat. co's).

Which is part of the reason why cable/sat. fees are always rising.

[PantherHawk]

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They could cut out a lot of costs if they would get rid of Lifetime and those other women channels! Just sayin, I don't watch that crap, why does it have to be offered in the plan?

[JayJ79]

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They could cut out a lot of costs if they would get rid of Lifetime and those other women channels! Just sayin, I don't watch that crap, why does it have to be offered in the plan?

I would guess that the costs to carry Lifetime, etc. are quite a bit lower than the costs to carry ESPN and/or other sports channels.

[TH1974]

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Yeah, it's like .0000005% of your bill.

[PantherHawk]

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I know i was trying to make a joke! I did get an email, they are going to allow Dish to continue to carry the channel for another couple of weeks. SO i am guessing there will be a deadline on September 14, the day before the Iowa vs UNI game.

[Trapped in California]

BTN streaming is working on my phone currently. I am a dish subscriber. Just seeing a placeholder clock/ad currently.

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[9YRPLAN]

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what did you guys think of the BTN coverage, despite the to-be-expected wisconsin bias?

i really love their productions.