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NBC/Versus deal with College Hockey

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cetihcra said:
Jesus t1ts, it was a 3pm et game. Boxscores are always edited after the fact as game tapes are reviewed. Are you always this hard-headed?!
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Apparently. Hey, but ESPN could be lying, or it was a typo, and the game started at 3:00PM Alaskan time. :rolleyes:
 
cetihcra said:
Jesus t1ts, it was a 3pm et game. Boxscores are always edited after the fact as game tapes are reviewed. Are you always this hard-headed?! http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/recap?gameId=230412017
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Am I always so hard headed? I wasn't the one who brought this God **** point up, and I'm not the one who is keeping the God **** subject alive. How many God **** times do I have to say that?

This has NOTHING to do with the point I was making, which is that fewer people will watch the games on versus than will watch the games on the BTN.
 
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JDUBBS1280 said:
Am I always so hard headed? I wasn't the one who brought this God **** point up, and I'm not the one who is keeping the God **** subject alive. How many God **** times do I have to say that?
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You weren't?
JDUBBS1280 said:
And FYI... Been thinking some more about the 2003 Championships TV ratings some more.

The Minnesota Wild also made it to the 2003 NHL Western Conference Finals that year.

Maybe that explains part of it?
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Edit: And we aren't "keeping it alive" as much as pointing out that you're wrong, which you've been arguing against and still haven't admitted that you were, in fact, WRONG.
 
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JDUBBS1280 said:
Yes, the premise brought up by a Notre Dame fan that this TV deal will give Notre Dame a significant competitive advantage. Which, I contest, isn't true.
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Fair enough. I think it absolutely gives them an advantage--won't go as far to call it significant though. I think their biggest advantage is tied into the move to HE. They only have one kid from New England on their roster and it's a non-impact player. I think they'll be able to grab the occasional big recruit from New England as a result of all this.
 
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JD - I absolutely agree that it will help them recruit out East, but it will hurt their recruiting out West IMO, and that is Notre Dame's recruiting base presently.

When I get home, I will post a list of all Minnesota college commitments and you can see, first hand, how few go East to play.
 
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the big surprise here is that NESN appears to have lost the Hockey East tourney
they have not yet announced which games they will televise this year except for the 3 BU games that
the school sponsors
Still assume they will have Fridays and the Beanpot
 
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DLG said:
the big surprise here is that NESN appears to have lost the Hockey East tourney
they have not yet announced which games they will televise this year except for the 3 BU games that
the school sponsors
Still assume they will have Fridays and the Beanpot
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From Twitter:

hockey_east Hockey East
Just to clarify, NBC Sports Net owns the national rights to our tournament coverage, we hope to announce our local rights in the near future
 
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komey1 said:
Didn't they say they would broadcast every conference at least twice? I don't see an AHA game in there. You would think that the military academies would draw some interest.
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Perhaps, once again, they got our schools confused. :eek: They have four ECAC games, 2 of which are RPI (the other two being Yale).
 
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I'm impressed in the locations they're putting their production trucks at. Driving to Omaha twice? And ALL games will be in HD according to the NCAA (or was it College Hockey Inc) twitter feed. :eek:
 
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aparch said:
I'm impressed in the locations they're putting their production trucks at. Driving to Omaha twice? And ALL games will be in HD according to the NCAA (or was it College Hockey Inc) twitter feed. :eek:
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Why wouldn't they do HD? Even college TV clubs are starting to do HD.
 
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Interesting... two Dartmouth games on NBC-CS. I wonder if that's because ruggers won the Collegiate 7s on the main NBC channel earlier this year. Or maybe whoever controls the programming is a Dartmouth alum... :)
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Perhaps, once again, they got our schools confused. :eek: They have four ECAC games, 2 of which are RPI (the other two being Yale).
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Not for nothing, there are only a couple AHA teams worth showing - Air Force, RIT, Niagara, and Holy Cross. UConn is playing pretty well right now and at least has name recognition. Showing a Sacred Heart-AIC matchup is not going to generate any interest in DI hockey.
 
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From Hockey East:

November 2, 2011

NEW YORK - The Hockey East Association and NBC Sports Network announced on Tuesday a multi-year deal to broadcast Hockey East games live, including the 2012 Hockey East Tournament at the TD Garden in Boston, Mass.

The Hockey East regular-season schedule will begin on NBC Sports Network with two games hosted by the University of Vermont on February 10 against Boston College at Gutterson Fieldhouse and February 24 vs. Boston University. NBC will also broadcast a Hockey East quarterfinal game on Friday, March 9 and then will continue their tournament coverage the following weekend on Friday, March 16 with the semifinal games at 5 and 8pm and the 28th Hockey East Championship Game on Saturday, March 17 (8pm) from the TD Garden.

"The landscape in college hockey is about to go through a significant change. Television will become even more important to all programs with national aspirations and national television will become a key to future success," said Hockey East commissioner Joe Bertagna. "This agreement will play a major role in our ability to stay in a leadership position in our sport."

The games are part of a 16-game college hockey schedule slated to start on VERSUS, which will be rebranded as the NBC Sports Network on Jan. 2, on Saturday, December 31, when Notre Dame hosts Boston University (7 p.m.). This season's schedule, which marks the first time that the NBC Sports Group will air college hockey games, was developed through partnerships with numerous collegiate hockey conferences and universities.

"We are excited to be launching our first-ever college hockey package by building a destination on Friday nights on the NBC Sports Network with many of the preeminent brands in the sport," said Jon Miller, President of Programming for NBC Sports Group. The college hockey telecasts will be produced by the same Emmy Award-winning team that oversees all of the NHL games for the NBC Sports Group, led by Sam Flood, executive producer for NBC Sports and VERSUS.

The Hockey East Association is a 10-team Division I college men's hockey conference founded in 1984 and an eight-team Division I women's league which began play in 2002-03. The men's league has won seven NCAA championships in the past 19 years. Since 1999, Hockey East has won five NCAA Championships and have placed 18 teams in the Frozen Four, along with 45 teams in the NCAA Tournament.
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Can we just call this the BU/BC network?
 
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How is the money going to be divided up? Will BC/BU end up with the lions share or will all HE teams share Equally? Or just what.?
 
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manurespreader said:
How is the money going to be divided up? Will BC/BU end up with the lions share or will all HE teams share Equally? Or just what.?
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Based on this section of the text quoted by Gainzo:

This season's schedule, which marks the first time that the NBC Sports Group will air college hockey games, was developed through partnerships with numerous collegiate hockey conferences and universities.
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That doesn't make it seem to me like it was a collectively bargained deal. I'd wager that each entity involved has their own separate contract. BC, BU, Notre Dame and whichever other schools have contracts with NBC for this would get what's in their individual contract.

Likewise, Hockey East and NCHC would each get whatever is in their individual contracts. I can't imagine that TV contracts with the conferences would be any different than any other conference TV contract for football, basketball, etc.: some of that cost goes to cover the overhead of managing the conference and the rest is divided equally among the members.
 
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manurespreader said:
How is the money going to be divided up? Will BC/BU end up with the lions share or will all HE teams share Equally? Or just what.?
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A reasonable supposition is that the Hockey East teams are sharing equally since NBC Sports is showing the Hockey East tourney. I don't think BU or BC can justify laying an unequal claim on that money when there isn't any assurance they would even be playing in the final or the semis.
 
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