Upcoming Season : ESPN Contract..

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I don't know if anyone knows,

but will every S.E.C game be on espn and espn 2 or just the two or three they pick that week?

Will it just be on espn and espn 2 will games come on espnU and espn classic as well..

If all games do come on.. will it be regional as to who gets to watch it or will they be stretched throughout the day to fulfill all games on espn?


just wondering?
 
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TennesseePride said:
I don't know if anyone knows,

but will every S.E.C game be on espn and espn 2 or just the two or three they pick that week?

Will it just be on espn and espn 2 will games come on espnU and espn classic as well..

If all games do come on.. will it be regional as to who gets to watch it or will they be stretched throughout the day to fulfill all games on espn?


just wondering?
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I think details are still being worked out but at this point, this is best explanation that Tony Barnhart wrote for the AJC. Kind of lays out what is going to happen. Some games could be on something besides ESPN.

I think start times for games will be up in the air more so than in the past.

From TB article
Mark your TV calendars: The complete football television picture in the SEC won’t be clear until the league’s preseason media days on July 22-24 in Hoover, Ala. ESPN officials told me they will make a complete presentation then that will make it clear where you can find your favorite games on Saturday.

But just to review: In the new TV deals, CBS will get the first pick from the inventory of games on a given Saturday. The big change is that the rest of the games will belong to ESPN, which is paying the SEC $2.25 billion over the next 15 years for that right. ESPN will place those games on their various platforms (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Classic, ESPN.360 on the internet). The games it cannot televise will go to other outlets such as CSS and FOX Sports South.

CBS has already locked in some dates and times. CBS will begin its ninth year with the SEC by televising Tennessee at Florida on Sept. 19 at 3:30 p.m. Given what has happened since Lane Kiffin got to Tennessee, there may be some interest in that game.

CBS has a pair of doubleheaders planned on Oct. 10 and Nov. 14. Nothing is set in stone but you can pretty much bet that the prime time (8 p.m. Eastern) game on Oct. 10 will be Florida at LSU. I’ll be surprised if the early game (3:30 p.m. Eastern) isn’t Alabama at Ole Miss.

As announced earlier, CBS has moved the Alabama-Auburn game to Friday, Nov. 27, the day after Thanksgiving. It did that in order to get wider exposure for the game and so that it could also broadcast Florida State at Florida on Nov. 28. If CBS had not made that move, one of those games would have gone to ESPN.
 
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As I understand it, games will be carried on CBS, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and another 'package' channel similar to the Lincoln Financial deal of season's past... only the package channel will be espn quality coverage. In Chattanooga for example, WFLI will be that station.

Many Comcast customers have been concerned about the ESPNU games, because Comcast does not now carry that channel. When the deal was announced though, ESPN and Comcast said they were working to complete a deal that would add the 'U' to the Comcast channels...
 
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Not every game. Most of SEC games that is on ESPN will mostly be primetime, therefore giving RAYCOM / Lincoln Financial and CBS majority of SEC telecasts.
 
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ESPNU isn't offered for COX communications people either I believe.. I've surfed my whle guide and can't find it..
 
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orange+white=heaven said:
As I understand it, games will be carried on CBS, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and another 'package' channel similar to the Lincoln Financial deal of season's past... only the package channel will be espn quality coverage. In Chattanooga for example, WFLI will be that station.

Many Comcast customers have been concerned about the ESPNU games, because Comcast does not now carry that channel. When the deal was announced though, ESPN and Comcast said they were working to complete a deal that would add the 'U' to the Comcast channels...
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Thanks for the comments on Comcast.

I recently became a new Comcast customer, so this is soemthing I will have to follow
 
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Its my understanding that the LF games will now be done by ESPN+/ESPN Regional and could still be carried by the same local station that carried the JP/LF games in the past.
 
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TN/LA said:
"ESPNU will be added to Comcast’s digital-level cable packages, and its high-speed Internet subscribers will receive ESPN360.com, after an agreement was reached this week.

The additional programming will be available before the start of college football season."

In Brief | ajc.com
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This makes me extremely happy....especially since I can hook up one of my lcd's to a hd card....
 
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LWSVOL said:
CBS has already locked in some dates and times. CBS will begin its ninth year with the SEC by televising Tennessee at Florida on Sept. 19 at 3:30 p.m. Given what has happened since Lane Kiffin got to Tennessee, there may be some interest in that game.
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Why CBS wouldn't make this game a night game is beyond me.
 
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Volgrad98 said:
Why CBS wouldn't make this game a night game is beyond me.
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Unfortunately, CBS has only one night game a year, and LSU has gotten our slot with Florida, due to our fall and their success.
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My problem with this is the games that might/will be on CSS what about all of us who have DirecTV or even Dish?
 
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Although I wouldn't put it past comcast-Nashville to for some reason not put ESPNU on their packages...
 
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My problem with LF was the picture...It was terrible to say the least...I hate that ESPNU is not high def yet.
 
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