NBC offers Big East for TV Rights, ESPN has one week to match offer

[irishfanjho15]

ESPN has week to meet NBC's Big East offer, sources say - ESPN

I just want NBC sports to keep growing and this is a great start. F*ck ESPiN.

 

[KPENN]

NBC sports has done a nice job growing and all but let's get real this is just the Big East.

 

[irishfanjho15]

NBC sports has done a nice job growing and all but let's get real this is just the Big East.

I understand but you have to show you can handle the small time before you can get bigger and better things.

NBC Sports does an amazing job covering what football they do have. Their IndyCar coverage is great too. Having the Dan Patrick show now is a boost and I love Pro Football Talk. They are stepping up their game by being a true sports network unlike TMZ/Disney/ESPiN.

The beauty of it is that every true sports fan I know enjoys NBC Sports Network because they cover sports news, they don't try to make it.

 

[KPENN]

I understand but you have to show you can handle the small time before you can get bigger and better things.

NBC Sports does an amazing job covering what football they do have. Their IndyCar coverage is great too. Having the Dan Patrick show now is a boost and I love Pro Football Talk. They are stepping up their game by being a true sports network unlike TMZ/Disney/ESPiN.

The beauty of it is that every true sports fan I know enjoys NBC Sports Network because they cover sports news, they don't try to make it.

The mothership still controls all the cards here and it's not even close. IndyCar is basically irrelevant in the US. I bet more Americans are more interested in F1 then IRL. Oh and the IRL's biggest race of the year? That's on ABC, so score for ESPN again. I love the NHL but I mean that's a small dot on the sports world in the US right now and that is the biggest thing NBC sports really has.

Plus if NBC gets this deal, do you really think people are gonna watch Big East B-ball over ACC/ Big 10? Nope. Maybe i'm underestimating here, but I see this having little to no impact on the ESPN monopoly.

 

[irishfanjho15]

The mothership still controls all the cards here and it's not even close. IndyCar is basically irrelevant in the US. I bet more Americans are more interested in F1 then IRL. Oh and the IRL's biggest race of the year? That's on ABC, so score for ESPN again. I love the NHL but I mean that's a small dot on the sports world in the US right now and that is the biggest thing NBC sports really has.

Plus if NBC gets this deal, do you really think people are gonna watch Big East B-ball over ACC/ Big 10? Nope. Maybe i'm underestimating here, but I see this having little to no impact on the ESPN monopoly.

It's IndyCar not IRL. And I wouldn't know about 'the race' on ABC because I go every year haha.

I agree it won't change the monopoly, I just hope it turns into an hour long sports wrap show on NBC Sports so I can avoid ESPN for anything but live televised events, on mute of course.

 

[chicago51]

I am all for NBC Sports Networking expanding even if this is just a small start. Competition makes everyone step their game.

A related question who is in Big East lol?

 

[chicago51]

Would like to add as kid in the 1990s that loved the Bulls and MJ: the NBA on the NBC was awesome ABC/ESPN and TNT just don't compare.

 

[irishfanjho15]

Would like to add as kid in the 1990s that loved the Bulls and MJ: the NBA on the NBC was awesome ABC/ESPN and TNT just don't compare.

Bob Costas baby!!!

 

[IrishLax]

NBC Sports getting their toehold by wrangling "minor" sports that would air on ESPN2 or ESPNU... I think it's smart.

For instance, NBC Sports is televising a lacrosse game tomorrow between Penn State and Denver. This is the first "major" cable network besides ESPNU I've seen pickup a nationwide broadcast of a regular season lacrosse game.

At the end of the day, sports fans win as these guys compete.

 

[pumpdog20]

Bob Costas baby!!!

Yeah right, Bill Walton.

 

[North Buffalo Irish]

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This... is the NBA on NBC.

 

[calvegas04]

Big East will be weaker than the MWC in a couple years. They should go after the MWC or C-USA

 

[ND NYC]

with Comcast $$ now 100% behind it (was 51%) who knows what future could bring to NBC sports (and/or other ptrogramming)

delivery (cable-internet company) trumps content (broadcaster) in the big picture long term here.

like lax said, when they compete, we (sports junkies) win.

the catholic 7 + a butler, dayton, st louis etc would be solid hoops league IMO.

I'm pulling for all of them to make it work regardless who carries the games

(nothing and i mean nothing came close to the "old" Big East in terms of hoops, esp the 80's and early 90's...ive been to damn near every BE Tournament at the garden except last 5 since league started...such classic games, coaches, characters such a shame they couldnt hold it all together)

 

[phork]

BigEast will be dead in 2 years anyways...

 

[chicago51]

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This... is the NBA on NBC.

Bulls won that game 5.

When I think of NBA on NBC I think of classic mathcups like that.

Knicks vs Bulls
Knicks vs Pacers
Etc

I though was a great time to be basketball fan. Mike Albert, Mike Fertello, Magic Johnon, Dick Emberge late 90s you had Bill Walton, Issiah Thomas, Doug Collins and eventually Costas did some play by play. A young Hannah Storm doing the halftime reports.

They had great coverage. The best part was all major playoff games including the East and West finals were NBC broadcast TV not cable.