K-Roo Posted July 12, 2007 Report Posted July 12, 2007 No Zips or Flushes??? part of ESPN plus deal....http://www.cleveland.com/ohiocollegesports...9000.xml&coll=2Six MAC football games on local TV Thursday, July 12, 2007From staff, wire reports The Mid-American Conference is expected to announce today that six ESPN-produced football games will air on WEWS Ch. 5 this fall. Those games will be part of a 53-game conference TV schedule by the time all deals are finalized later this month. "ESPN has been great," MAC Commissioner Rick Chryst said. "This has been developing for a while. We're excited about it and where it can lead." The first part of the TV schedule is the six-week package that will be shown locally on WEWS Ch. 5 at noon. The Big Ten Conference held that time slot before forming its own network, which will debut Aug. 30. The MAC games will run weekly from Sept. 15-Oct. 20 and also be shown on network stations WWHO in Columbus, WKRC in Cincinnati, WHIO in Dayton and WTVG in Toledo. Area teams Akron and Can't State are not part of this package. Michael Reghi will be the play-by-play voice for the package. The WEWS games are: Sept. 15: Cincinnati at Miami (rivalry)Sept. 22: Temple at Bowling Green Sept. 29: Northern Illinois at Central Michigan (potentially good game)Oct. 6: Central Michigan at Ball State (potentially a good game)Oct. 13: Eastern Michigan at Ohio University Quote
skip-zip Posted July 12, 2007 Report Posted July 12, 2007 I'm scratching my head trying to figure out why a Cleveland network would want to televise a MAC game when neither of the schools are in their viewing area? Quote
K-Roo Posted July 12, 2007 Author Report Posted July 12, 2007 It's part of ESPN PLUS.. regional telecasts.... space occupied by Big Ten in the past... Big Ten Network now has those games leaving ESPN Plus Regional with slots to fill... Quote
Z.I.P. Posted July 14, 2007 Report Posted July 14, 2007 Earth to Rick Chryst. Earth to Rick Chryst. Rick, don't you think your HQ-town viewers might like to see the colleges closest to them??? Over. Aloha means goodbye Quote
zen Posted July 15, 2007 Report Posted July 15, 2007 The only thing I can think of is that these geniuses must have thought that they didn't want to hurt "hometown" ticket sales by broadcasting games (even though they could have picked away games) and never even considered that sparking local/regional interest could more than compensate in future games.If it wasn't that, then it just seems like another idiotic circumstance. Quote
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