TV Deal-Time Warner Sports to Show 14 MU Games

[bma725]

Per Tim Cuprisin the TV and Radio guy at the Journal. No details yet regarding what games, but it's supposed to come out in his column Tuesday.

http://blogs.jsonline.com/cuprisin/archive/2007/09/10/time-warner-gets-14-live-marquette-games.aspx

Time Warner gets 14 live Marquette games
By Tim Cuprisin
Monday, Sep 10 2007, 04:46 PM

The new Time Warner Sports channel has struck a deal with ESPN and Marquette University to carry 14 men's basketball games live on the channel, which launched at the beginning of this year, along with a number of other Marquette sports coverage.

Check my Tuesday column for more details.

[rocky_warrior]

Hmmm...does this mean they'd be paying to re-broadcast ESPN games?  Or buying the rights for games that ESPN did not pick up?

Hmmm - I guess we'll find out tomorrow, but interesting...

[mu_hilltopper]

Yeah, that's an odd one .. I wonder if they are broadcasting the OOC home games, which would account for quite a few.  All the other ones should be somewhere on ESPN-The Ocho.

Watching MU vs. Savannah State from my recliner instead of at the BC .. mmmm .. donuts ...

[Chili]

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=659566

[mu_hilltopper]

Interesting that Crean's show starts in November .. IIRC, it used to start with conference games in ~January.

.. Plus .. re-airing "classic" games.  That'll be nice.

Time Warner Cable has signed a deal to air live coverage of 14 Marquette men's basketball games on its Time Warner Sports Channel 32 starting this fall.

The players in the contract include ESPN, which had the rights to air the games. Another nine Marquette games that air live on one of the ESPN channels will be re-aired on Time Warner Sports. In addition, a few games may air elsewhere in the market.

The deal also will give Time Warner Sports access to ESPN's library of classic Marquette basketball games.

It's the kind of multiyear deal that brings a guaranteed audience to the local sports channel, which was launched at the beginning of the year.

"Since Marquette is such a significant athletic program, not only in Wisconsin but nationally, being able to air Marquette games will significantly give credibility to Time Warner Sports," Time Warner Wisconsin Vice President Bev Greenberg says.

In addition to men's basketball, Time Warner Sports will air live or delayed coverage of women's basketball, men's and women's soccer and women's volleyball. The final component of the package is a new version of men's basketball coach Tom Crean's show, and a show from women's basketball coach Terri Mitchell.

Crean's show should debut sometime in November.

Greenberg says the cable company is working to bring other live game coverage to the channel, which is available to Time Warner subscribers in 202 communities stretching from the Illinois state line to Marinette, Wis., on the Michigan border

"We're working on it as we speak," Greenberg says.

[The Lens]

Does that mean these games will be picked up by ESPN gameplan or some old fashioned big dish?

[77fan88warrior]

Does this mean people will be able to purchase radios with tv reception and listen in the car? This might be better than radio signal!

[rocky_warrior]

Does this mean people will be able to purchase radios with tv reception and listen in the car? This might be better than radio signal!

Since it's a cable channel I think you're still SOL. 

I'm still confused by the deal.  The headline says: "Time Warner Sports Channel scores 14 MU men's basketball games" - leading me to believe there's a total of 14.  But then they say "Another nine Marquette games that air live on one of the ESPN channels will be re-aired on Time Warner Sports."  So is that 23?  Or just 5 non-ESPN games for a total of 14?

Of course, we still have yet to see what games ESPNU picks up.

Can anyone clarify?  It doesn't really affect me too much (since I'm WAY out of the area), unless they're picking up 14 more games, which then ESPN can put on Full Court.

[mu03eng]

My interpretation is thus.

Time Warner Sports(channel 32 I believe) will air 14 games that would have never aired....such as Savanah State, etc.

They will also get the rights to re-air, think re-run, big games, like Louisville and Syracuse.

So if I'm right this means we get 14 games locally in addition to anything that ESPN picks up and broadcasts.

IMHO

[rocky_warrior]

Time Warner Sports(channel 32 I believe) will air 14 games that would have never aired....such as Savanah State, etc.

I'm coming around to that opinion too.  I re-read Marquette's schedule announcement, and they said:

The newly signed television contract between the BIG EAST and ESPN, Inc., is the best in college basketball and as a result Marquette will have a record number of its games broadcast on a national level (at least 11 total). MU's expansive local package will be announced in the coming weeks, meaning nearly every regular season game will be available on television.

Of course - this is fantastic because I *hope* full court will pick up the locally produced games.

[77fan88warrior]

Does this mean people will be able to purchase radios with tv reception and listen in the car? This might be better than radio signal!

Since it's a cable channel I think you're still SOL. 

Duh! My bad.

[muhoosier260]

i remember a post recently saying that time warner was going to carry espnu but haven't been able to find it. wasn't someone saying that its 117 or around there? anyone know anything else about this?
sorry if i missed a previous explanation of this...

[Sir Lawrence]

i remember a post recently saying that time warner was going to carry espnu but haven't been able to find it. wasn't someone saying that its 117 or around there? anyone know anything else about this?
sorry if i missed a previous explanation of this...

Are you in the metro-Milwaukee area?  If so, ESPNU is on 117, as part of their "digital sports package."

[Chili]

i remember a post recently saying that time warner was going to carry espnu but haven't been able to find it. wasn't someone saying that its 117 or around there? anyone know anything else about this?
sorry if i missed a previous explanation of this...

Are you in the metro-Milwaukee area?  If so, ESPNU is on 117, as part of their "digital sports package."

ESPNU is part of the regular digital package on in every Time Warner market in the country.

[MarkMiller]

It is very likely Full Court will pick up most of the games on TWC/WACY. 

[rocky_warrior]

It is very likely Full Court will pick up most of the games on TWC/WACY. 

That's what I'm hoping for.  Geeze - this is going to mess up my weekend skiing schedule.  Guess I'll have to start working 4-10s and take the weekdays skiing

If I can watch a Marquette/IUPUI game in Colorado, I'll be the happiest guy around.  I'd like to see the exhibition too, but full court may not pick up exhibitions...