UNI Basketball on TV...or maybe not.

[Newsbreaker]

Effective Tuesday, CFU cable in Cedar Falls will be replacing Fox Sports Net Chicago with Comcast Sports Chicago, giving CFU subscribers Bulls games and Cubs games next year.

While this is great news to Cubs fans, consider this:

With FSNC gone, UNI games with SMS, Indiana State and AT Illinois State, not to mention the entire conference tournament upto the Finals (ESPN) will NOT be available to much of Cedar Falls.

[Marc Wigim]

WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY THINKING???? I don't give a rat's bee-hind about the Chicago Nulls, and I already get Cubs games on WGN! How can the community of Cedar Falls accuse the rest of the state of Iowa of burying the Panthers when they're holding the shovel??

[#1pantherfan]

do we need to start emailing CFU cable too?

[RobFromCedarFalls]

most of the cubs games this year were moved to comcast. i understand the need for comcast, but take out some crap channel, or just add it.

[Panthers to the Bone]

Guys, the MVC has a contract with Comcast. Actually, what you said is the other way around. The MVC did not have a contract with FSN Chicago this year for men's basketball. Read what the MVC website says about this year's basketball tv contract:

The Missouri Valley Conference, in its 98th year of athletic competition, will produce a record 33-telecast, in-house television package in 2004-05, league Commissioner Doug Elgin has announced.

The Missouri Valley Conference, with Metro Sports of Kansas City serving as its production company, has worked in conjunction with FSN Midwest, FSN Rocky Mountain, FSN South, FSN Southwest, Fox College Sports and Comcast SportsNet Chicago to clear its slate of telecasts for the 2004-05 academic year.

The Valley will have a 21-game regular-season men's and women's basketball package on FSN Midwest, Fox College Sports, Comcast SportsNet Chicago and Metro Sports. The Missouri Valley Conference's regular-season basketball package begins with its first-ever New Year’s Day telecast.

All four quarterfinal games on March 5 and both semifinal contests on March 6 from the 2005 State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament in St. Louis will air live on FSN Midwest, Comcast SportsNet Chicago and Fox College Sports.

So, this is a good thing, and I'm glad to see everything went down and CFU was able to get this on tv.

[Marc Wigim]

Oops. My bad. Just getting a bit worked up over here. I was just upset at the prospect of missing MVC games this year.

[Newsbreaker]

Guys, the MVC has a contract with Comcast. Actually, what you said is the other way around. The MVC did not have a contract with FSN Chicago this year for men's basketball. Read what the MVC website says about this year's basketball tv contract:

The Missouri Valley Conference, in its 98th year of athletic competition, will produce a record 33-telecast, in-house television package in 2004-05, league Commissioner Doug Elgin has announced.

The Missouri Valley Conference, with Metro Sports of Kansas City serving as its production company, has worked in conjunction with FSN Midwest, FSN Rocky Mountain, FSN South, FSN Southwest, Fox College Sports and Comcast SportsNet Chicago to clear its slate of telecasts for the 2004-05 academic year.

The Valley will have a 21-game regular-season men's and women's basketball package on FSN Midwest, Fox College Sports, Comcast SportsNet Chicago and Metro Sports. The Missouri Valley Conference's regular-season basketball package begins with its first-ever New Year’s Day telecast.

All four quarterfinal games on March 5 and both semifinal contests on March 6 from the 2005 State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament in St. Louis will air live on FSN Midwest, Comcast SportsNet Chicago and Fox College Sports.

So, this is a good thing, and I'm glad to see everything went down and CFU was able to get this on tv.

That's MUCH better. The UNI Panthers website only says Fox Sports Net for those games and the tournament, and that's where I got my information from.

SO if someone is going to start emailing, they need to email Mediacom, who has no intention of adding Comcast Sports Chicago to their lineup, so parts of CF (and all of Waterloo) will be without. I believe Mediacom-CF has FSN Midwest, so they'd be covered. Mediacom in Waterloo does not, only FSN Chicago.