Big 10 Pay-to-View only?

[Great Plains Gopher]

Is that the future? Indiana-Mich St, the week Indiana became #3, its highest rank ever, and its coach given a fabulous contract, was available on Peacock Premium only; likewise, Penn State -Iowa, a major game of the season, the week Coach Franklin was fired, also is available only on Premium Peacock. That must have shrunk the TV audience for both games and cheated most fans of two of the most important and interesting games of the season. Eventually we may have to have a B10 contract first, then pay a game day fee on top of that. The greed will never end, and the schools, ironically, will never have enough money.

 

[IceBoxGopher]

Has more to do with the commitment NBC has with Notre Dame. That always seems to get the network's attention above all else. The problem is NBC doesn't really have an "overflow" option for additional games like others do. FOX can play multiple games in primetime thanks to FS1, CBS can do it with CBS Sports Network, ditto with ESPN having ESPN2/ESPNU.

With NBC, though, since NBC Sports Network shut down, there's no second dedicated sports channel that it can broadcast the Big Ten game while Notre Dame gets the network station. So in this case, those other games are going to get pushed on its streaming platform.

 

[Some guy]

There are more games on “free” networks than there ever have been?

 

[Breakin' The Plane]

Fox, CBS and I guess ABC via ESPN all have their fingers in the Big 10 pie. That's more money than they are ever going to make via streaming.

 

[Ope3]

Fox, CBS and I guess ABC via ESPN all have their fingers in the Big 10 pie. That's more money than they are ever going to make via streaming.

ABC/ESPN currently has zero inventory of Big 10 Regular Season Football. The only time a Big 10 Team appears on that platform is when they are on the road against a Conference that does.

The current Big 10 rights holders for football & basketball are:

FOX/FS1-BTN
CBS
NBC/Peacock

 

[Ope3]

Peacock sucks.

 

[howeda7]

Has more to do with the commitment NBC has with Notre Dame. That always seems to get the network's attention above all else. The problem is NBC doesn't really have an "overflow" option for additional games like others do. FOX can play multiple games in primetime thanks to FS1, CBS can do it with CBS Sports Network, ditto with ESPN having ESPN2/ESPNU.

With NBC, though, since NBC Sports Network shut down, there's no second dedicated sports channel that it can broadcast the Big Ten game while Notre Dame gets the network station. So in this case, those other games are going to get pushed on its streaming platform.

NBC Sports Network is being re-launched but I assume most B1G will remain on Peacock.

 

[howeda7]

Is that the future? Indiana-Mich St, the week Indiana became #3, its highest rank ever, and its coach given a fabulous contract, was available on Peacock Premium only; likewise, Penn State -Iowa, a major game of the season, the week Coach Franklin was fired, also is available only on Premium Peacock. That must have shrunk the TV audience for both games and cheated most fans of two of the most important and interesting games of the season. Eventually we may have to have a B10 contract first, then pay a game day fee on top of that. The greed will never end, and the schools, ironically, will never have enough money.

Yes. There are also NFL games exclusive to Peacock and a bunch of NBA games exclusive to Peacock. If you're a sports fan it's just an outlet you need access to like ESPN.

 

[Ope3]

Yes. There are also NFL games exclusive to Peacock and a bunch of NBA games exclusive to Peacock. If you're a sports fan it's just an outlet you need access to like ESPN.

Nah, don't need to.

Starting with the first Big 10 Basketball Tournament Semis in 1998, I had either attended or watched on TV every game until this year. This past March that string was broken, with Peacock being the streamer for the opening round. I missed the Gopher game ending the Ben Johnson tenure.

Turns out didn't need to watch it or the other games that day like I thought.

Similarly I hadn't missed an NFL Playoff game since getting a VCR in 1983. Peacock took care of that run a couple of years ago.

Turns out I didn't need to watch it. I found other ways to occupy my time, just fine.