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Where are the games from the 2013 season we beat Northwestern at Evanston, Indiana at there house, Nebraska at home, and of course Penn State. Where are the films of those games and when are they going to broadcast? It seems it doesn't fit the story line they are promoting. Nebraska is a favorite in the West, Northwestern can't have a season like last year, Penn State, James Franklin walks on water, and Indiana is so explosive on offense its got to pay off. Lets go to the tape.
 

I used to be a Big 10 Network junkie. It slowly but surely became the Buckeye Network (with heavy helpings of Michigan too) and as that happened I backed away and now watch a fraction of that channel compared to a few years ago.

That got me thinking: I'm sure I'm not the only one. As (non OSU and UM) people have switched on to see a never ending flow of Ohio State and Michigan programming, I'm sure they have tuned out as well. As that has happened, I suppose the Big 10 Network has increasingly noticed viewer demographics being dominated by those schools, which has justified even more expansions in content of those schools. Rinse, repeat.
 

husker70 said:
Where are the games from the 2013 season we beat Northwestern at Evanston, Indiana at there house, Nebraska at home, and of course Penn State. Where are the films of those games and when are they going to broadcast? It seems it doesn't fit the story line they are promoting. Nebraska is a favorite in the West, Northwestern can't have a season like last year, Penn State, James Franklin walks on water, and Indiana is so explosive on offense its got to pay off. Lets go to the tape.
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You clearly don't understand the media bias against MN. Its like we are the Republicans and BTN is MSNBC.
 

Minnesota should refuse to accept any payment from the BTN until all programming is scheduled equally between the 14 schools!
 



husker70 said:
Where are the games from the 2013 season we beat Northwestern at Evanston, Indiana at there house, Nebraska at home, and of course Penn State. Where are the films of those games and when are they going to broadcast? It seems it doesn't fit the story line they are promoting. Nebraska is a favorite in the West, Northwestern can't have a season like last year, Penn State, James Franklin walks on water, and Indiana is so explosive on offense its got to pay off. Lets go to the tape.
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Minnesota-Nebraska airs Sunday at 3 p.m.

The penn state game was aired in May
 

People that have a problem with BTN scheduling don't understand the relationship between demand and supply and subsequently would prefer to go against that relationship and accept lower payouts to the member institutions.
 

maroonedinCA said:
People that have a problem with BTN scheduling don't understand the relationship between demand and supply and subsequently would prefer to go against that relationship and accept lower payouts to the member institutions.
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BTN can schedule their programming any way they see fit. I was simply saying I rarely watch it now, as I am not interested in a steady diet of Buckeye Network. I am in no position to accept lower or higher payouts from BTN. However, I am in a position to turn my TV to Game of Thrones or Shark Week. That will pretty much be the extent of my personal action related to BTN's programming choices.
 




Schnauzer said:
BTN can schedule their programming any way they see fit. I was simply saying I rarely watch it now, as I am not interested in a steady diet of Buckeye Network. I am in no position to accept lower or higher payouts from BTN. However, I am in a position to turn my TV to Game of Thrones or Shark Week. That will pretty much be the extent of my personal action related to BTN's programming choices.
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I will admit that I tried to tune into the Gopher camp special episode of BTN Live, however I didn't have it in my Dish custom list. :( that's how infrequent I watch the channel.
 

Schnauzer said:
BTN can schedule their programming any way they see fit. I was simply saying I rarely watch it now, as I am not interested in a steady diet of Buckeye Network. I am in no position to accept lower or higher payouts from BTN. However, I am in a position to turn my TV to Game of Thrones or Shark Week. That will pretty much be the extent of my personal action related to BTN's programming choices.
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Perfect, you've made your choice and so has BTN. Thankfully their choice means bigger paydays for all of the members.

Also, I was speaking more towards the contingent that what's to change the scheduling.
 


Maximus said:
Minnesota-Nebraska airs Sunday at 3 p.m.

The penn state game was aired in May
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Unless I am mistaken, I believe the Minnesota-Penn State game from 2013 was also aired just a few days ago. They have also aired our recent wins against ioweee too. Not to say that I don't also think they are a bit O$U and scUm centric at times.
 



Good coverage. I want every team we play to think that the previous weeks' Gopher victories were just a series of flukes.
 

maroonedinCA said:
People that have a problem with BTN scheduling don't understand the relationship between demand and supply and subsequently would prefer to go against that relationship and accept lower payouts to the member institutions.
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understanding Supply and demand is one half of the good business strategy. they should consider the potential for a larger upswing in business from the Minnesota market since they have already alienated more of the fan base by not playing our games for the past several years.

if they woudl start playing more of them they would gain more viewership since the OSU and the Michigan fan bases are already there and will watch even though their schools are not shown as often.

they still have local advertising and would gain more Minnesota Ads for our market if they played more of our games.

so yes their viewerships is large but BTN could gain more numbers by playing some more games from the other schools.
 

DoubleB said:
understanding Supply and demand is one half of the good business strategy. they should consider the potential for a larger upswing in business from the Minnesota market since they have already alienated more of the fan base by not playing our games for the past several years.

if they woudl start playing more of them they would gain more viewership since the OSU and the Michigan fan bases are already there and will watch even though their schools are not shown as often.

they still have local advertising and would gain more Minnesota Ads for our market if they played more of our games.

so yes their viewerships is large but BTN could gain more numbers by playing some more games from the other schools.
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exactly where my heads at. You can argue supply and demand but at some point your pigeonholing your supply and narrowing your demand. In the words of Wu-Tang Financial, "you got to diversify your bongs, n****"
 


Of course you aren't seeing Gophers on BTN. Theyre wrapping up a 14 (!!) school road trip with a day dedicated on the network to each school.

A full day of Gophers just this past Saturday. Gopher-Arkansas game on Thursday afternoon. 2013 Nebraska game on Sunday (as requested). Next Tuesday is the west division preview. Next Thursday two Gopher game replays in the afternoon before the home opener.

Indiana is featured twice in that span of 12 days. A loss to Michigan and the east division preview.
 

DoubleB said:
understanding Supply and demand is one half of the good business strategy. they should consider the potential for a larger upswing in business from the Minnesota market since they have already alienated more of the fan base by not playing our games for the past several years.

if they woudl start playing more of them they would gain more viewership since the OSU and the Michigan fan bases are already there and will watch even though their schools are not shown as often.

they still have local advertising and would gain more Minnesota Ads for our market if they played more of our games.

so yes their viewerships is large but BTN could gain more numbers by playing some more games from the other schools.
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This is some really poor analysis. The MN market is small compared to the national market they're really catering to. You think NYC cares about MN vs. Arkansas? What about West Coast audiences? Say what you want but I'd be very surprised if The Game didn't get higher ratings in MN than a significant proportion oh MN B1G games during the regular season right in our own state.
 

t-docious said:
exactly where my heads at. You can argue supply and demand but at some point your pigeonholing your supply and narrowing your demand. In the words of Wu-Tang Financial, "you got to diversify your bongs, n****"
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Narrowing your demand would be playing MN vs Indiana games as the station is rolled out to new markets or trying to gain share in existing markets.
 

What sucks is BTN should have every single game for every single school from last year, or the last few years on demand. You want to watch the Nebraska game from last year, download it or stream it. Then we wouldn't give a **** what OSU game BTN wants to drop out its backside. We could actually have a choice and see what we want. But I'm not sure that will ever happen.
 

Sparlimb said:
What sucks is BTN should have every single game for every single school from last year, or the last few years on demand. You want to watch the Nebraska game from last year, download it or stream it. Then we wouldn't give a **** what OSU game BTN wants to drop out its backside. We could actually have a choice and see what we want. But I'm not sure that will ever happen.
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You don't think there may be some licensing issues with that...? ESPN and ABC are just going to hand over ALL content? The games they do play they either broadcast themselves or secured the rights but lets just have BTN break piracy laws.
 

Let's be honest, BTN is largely irrelevant to most viewers from March 15th to September 1st. I've watched maybe 10 minutes of it since March. It'll be one of my 3 most watched channels from September-March. It's all about the live content. Which re-runs they show in July means almost nothing. OSU and Michigan bring in some small fractional increase in viewers, so they get more time.
 

maroonedinCA said:
You don't think there may be some licensing issues with that...? ESPN and ABC are just going to hand over ALL content? The games they do play they either broadcast themselves or secured the rights but lets just have BTN break piracy laws.
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First, they can do all their own broadcast games today. Second, I believe the teams own the copyright to the games. Plenty of games on BTN are espn games (every other game is a BIg Ten Championship replay). Get it done
 

Sparlimb said:
First, they can do all their own broadcast games today. Second, I believe the teams own the copyright to the games. Plenty of games on BTN are espn games (every other game is a BIg Ten Championship replay). Get it done
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They buy the rights to those ESPN games. If they could get all the free content they wanted don't you think they would?
 

If you have BTN as part of your cable or satellite package then you have free access to BTN2Go. On BTN2Go you can watch every game from last year, any time you want, for free. Just sign in through your TV provider and click on Game Schedule.
 

Ski U Master said:
Don't even try logic, it's not welcome around here.
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Maximus said:
Of course you aren't seeing Gophers on BTN. Theyre wrapping up a 14 (!!) school road trip with a day dedicated on the network to each school.

A full day of Gophers just this past Saturday. Gopher-Arkansas game on Thursday afternoon. 2013 Nebraska game on Sunday (as requested). Next Tuesday is the west division preview. Next Thursday two Gopher game replays in the afternoon before the home opener.

Indiana is featured twice in that span of 12 days. A loss to Michigan and the east division preview.
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jaymil said:
If you have BTN as part of your cable or satellite package then you have free access to BTN2Go. On BTN2Go you can watch every game from last year, any time you want, for free. Just sign in through your TV provider and click on Game Schedule.
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Stop making sense. You are ruining this thread.
 

jaymil said:
If you have BTN as part of your cable or satellite package then you have free access to BTN2Go. On BTN2Go you can watch every game from last year, any time you want, for free. Just sign in through your TV provider and click on Game Schedule.
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Odd that they have it on the web but now downloadable on demand.
 

maroonedinCA said:
This is some really poor analysis. The MN market is small compared to the national market they're really catering to. You think NYC cares about MN vs. Arkansas? What about West Coast audiences? Say what you want but I'd be very surprised if The Game didn't get higher ratings in MN than a significant proportion oh MN B1G games during the regular season right in our own state.
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Nonsense. By ignoring certain fanbases.....the Big Ten Network is quickly being forgotten. That is by significant portions of fans. What's the point in even flipping to the network to see what is on when you know that the games being replayed are likely to be buckeyes or the wolverines? Is it worth catering to a couple fanbases? Worth replaying the same games over and over again as though the fanbases of these few teams will watch them repeatedly?

Fourteen teams. They are severely limiting their viewership if major preference is shown to only a few teams.
 

Schnauzer said:
BTN can schedule their programming any way they see fit. I was simply saying I rarely watch it now, as I am not interested in a steady diet of Buckeye Network. I am in no position to accept lower or higher payouts from BTN. However, I am in a position to turn my TV to Game of Thrones or Shark Week. That will pretty much be the extent of my personal action related to BTN's programming choices.
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Maybe if we were better like tOSU we would have more wins in important games and would deserve more games on BTN. I like the mix of programming.
 

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