Evansville at ISUr - MVC TV

by **pafan** » January 25th, 2013, 8:46 am

Evansville is currently undefeated against teams from the Land of Lincoln, but so far all of the contests have been at Ford Center Evansville.

Nothing from Vegas yet, will be interested to see where this one opens. I would guess ISUr -2.

Game is on MVC TV, although my cable listings show the first 90 minutes of this one being pre-empted by the Indiana Pacers. :Bam:

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by **cpacmel** » January 25th, 2013, 9:53 am

pafan wrote:Game is on MVC TV, although my cable listings show the first 90 minutes of this one being pre-empted by the Indiana Pacers.

Yeah this will be interesting as the Blackhawks and Blues both have games that night, which means Comcast Sports Net Chicago and Fox Sports Midwest will probably bump MVC-TV to tape delay. I guess there is hope for an alternative channel from those networks...

It's also supposed to be on ESPN3. But blacked out in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska Kansas.... :huh:

by **sixth ace** » January 25th, 2013, 2:20 pm

cpacmel wrote:
pafan wrote:Game is on MVC TV, although my cable listings show the first 90 minutes of this one being pre-empted by the Indiana Pacers.

Yeah this will be interesting as the Blackhawks and Blues both have games that night, which means Comcast Sports Net Chicago and Fox Sports Midwest will probably bump MVC-TV to tape delay. I guess there is hope for an alternative channel from those networks...

It's also supposed to be on ESPN3. But blacked out in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska Kansas....

thta's quite a tv contract Eglin got for the MVC crowd. The MVC is on FSN only if there isn't another sporting event that night.

by **cpacmel** » January 25th, 2013, 2:24 pm

sixth ace wrote:
cpacmel wrote:
pafan wrote:Game is on MVC TV, although my cable listings show the first 90 minutes of this one being pre-empted by the Indiana Pacers.

Yeah this will be interesting as the Blackhawks and Blues both have games that night, which means Comcast Sports Net Chicago and Fox Sports Midwest will probably bump MVC-TV to tape delay. I guess there is hope for an alternative channel from those networks...

It's also supposed to be on ESPN3. But blacked out in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska Kansas....

thta's quite a tv contract Eglin got for the MVC crowd. The MVC is on FSN only if there isn't another sporting event that night.

Part of the problem is the fact that the NHL has their shortened season, which was made after the MVC TV schedule was already signed off on.

The whole blackening out of ESPN3 in states where there are MVC schools is just plain dumb. That's ESPN's call though.

by **shoxrox** » January 25th, 2013, 2:52 pm

cpacmel wrote:Part of the problem is the fact that the NHL has their shortened season, which was made after the MVC TV schedule was already signed off on.

The whole blackening out of ESPN3 in states where there are MVC schools is just plain dumb. That's ESPN's call though.

Actually, it's not ESPN's call. If ESPN had their way, they wouldn't black out anything so they could get as many viewers as possible to one of their ESPN platforms. It's the broadcasters that are causing the blacking out of games. Since the above game is on MVC TV (FSN) and that is accessible in all of those blackout states, FSN wants to make sure everyone there is tuning their TV's to their channel, not going on to ESPN3. That makes sense, since they paid for the rights of those game. Same thing happens here in Wichita for our Cox games. It's blacked out in Kansas and Missouri because the games are accessible on Cox in those markets. Therefore, Cox wants you watching those games on their channel. Those outside the market can go through ESPN3 because they can't access the games since Cox isn't available there. ESPN then makes money on those additional people out of market viewing the game through ESPN3.

It sucks because I don't have Cox. I hate it. But that's how it works.

by **Redbird23** » January 25th, 2013, 4:10 pm

stupid that they have Hawks on over this game...will be 3 in a row :Beer:

by **pafan** » January 25th, 2013, 6:40 pm

cpacmel wrote:Part of the problem is the fact that the NHL has their shortened season, which was made after the MVC TV schedule was already signed off on.

Yep. Big part of it - the Blues were originally scheduled to not play last Saturday (they did) and tomorrow (they will).

by **cpacmel** » January 25th, 2013, 9:03 pm

shoxrox wrote:
cpacmel wrote:Part of the problem is the fact that the NHL has their shortened season, which was made after the MVC TV schedule was already signed off on.

The whole blackening out of ESPN3 in states where there are MVC schools is just plain dumb. That's ESPN's call though.

Actually, it's not ESPN's call. If ESPN had their way, they wouldn't black out anything so they could get as many viewers as possible to one of their ESPN platforms. It's the broadcasters that are causing the blacking out of games. Since the above game is on MVC TV (FSN) and that is accessible in all of those blackout states, FSN wants to make sure everyone there is tuning their TV's to their channel, not going on to ESPN3. That makes sense, since they paid for the rights of those game. Same thing happens here in Wichita for our Cox games. It's blacked out in Kansas and Missouri because the games are accessible on Cox in those markets. Therefore, Cox wants you watching those games on their channel. Those outside the market can go through ESPN3 because they can't access the games since Cox isn't available there. ESPN then makes money on those additional people out of market viewing the game through ESPN3.

It sucks because I don't have Cox. I hate it. But that's how it works.

Thanks for the sharing the knowledge shoxrox. :Cheers:

by **sixth ace** » January 25th, 2013, 11:41 pm

if you have Dish network The game is on channel 452 at gametime Alternative channel for FSN.

Now don't I feel bad about complaining about Eglin :Violin:

by **sixth ace** » January 26th, 2013, 12:07 am

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