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Originally Posted by Spaz
Exactly. And this deal makes the games available for people to watch. Far more so, IMO, than would have been so on ESPN.
Will there be competition? Absolutely - it's unavoidable these days. But the fact that it's AVAILABLE is going to go a LONG ways. There'll be people flipping channels who stumble upon the Mtn, and decide to watch awhile.
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ARE YOU NUTS???? SPORTS TIER ON DIRECTV = SAME EXPOSURE AS ESPN????
Now I am know you are either 1) a dumbass or 2) trolling.
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Sports tiers are limited and expensive. Only 4% of households currently have what is considered to be a sports tier package, and such packages are not available in all markets. One reason some cable companies want to carry the network on a sports tier is to drive more subscribers to these higher-margin packages. Comcast, for example, would receive an estimated $280 per year from a customer who is not already a digital subscriber and an estimated $138 per year if that customer already pays for digital service, which is required to get a sports tier. We want to work with all of our carriers to help their businesses, but we believe the core Big Ten Network service must be available on expanded basic television to reach the largest number of people possible. DIRECTV, DISH Network, Insight, WOW and RCN, and about 160 other cable companies already added the network to their expanded basic level of service without a simultaneous price increase to consumers.
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http://www.gophersports.com/download...DB_OEM_ID=8400
Assuming a 5% sports tier rate, and 14 million directv subscribers, that means that this deal added a potential
700,000 viewers. Of course only a miniscule number of those sports tier viewers will ever tune in to the MTN. But who's counting, right?