Cant Watch Longhorn Network in Central Texas/Austin

[DenverSooner]

http://www.statesman.com/sports/longhorns/watching-horns-jayhawks-on-tv-only-if-youve-1937866.html

This is just too funy. In Austin, you cannot get the Longhorn Network. The Texas v. KU game was not televised to the majority of people living in Austin or anywhere in Texas. Rather they are running adds asking people to call their cable and satelite providers to beg for the Longhorn Network.

What is funny, is I watched the OU game, the OSU, the A&M and the Tech game in Austin. Every single Big XII game but the Texas v. KU game was on TV in Austin.

It will be quite funny if the Longhorn Network fails.

 

[Sooner_In_MI]

It's so stupid that a network that no one gets almost obliterated the Big 12. Also I see this as a good reason of why we should wait and see RE: a potential Sooner Network in the future.

 

[DenverSooner]

I don't get why the Big XII doesn't do a network. This idea that a single school can create a television network seems a bit ridiculous to me. Sure a bunch of meatheads like us would pay attention to a Sooner network but 100 fools is not an audience.

 

[Sooner_In_MI]

The Big XII schools really should all combine and do a network. Heck, I'd rather have us join forces with all of the other schools and do a network and let the LHN stand alone. The LHN is pretty much worthless for recruiting advantages now that they can't broadcast any high school content. Before coming to Oklahoma for school I lived in Big Ten country. The Big Ten Network is a great success and I have to believe a Big XII Network would be as well.

 

[Mr.B!!!]

Wow, talk about the law of unintended consequences at work. Even more brilliant is a "media campaign" designed to hurt the business that you desperately want to carry your product by raising the prices of ALL of their customers, whether said customers want the product or not. Regarding whether the network is successful long-term, I just don't see where Tier-3 content justifies its existence or where there would be any interest outside the State of Texas that would compel a media provider to carry it.

If it were me trying to make that thing work, I'd dial in on the "maybe" 250-500,000 die hard fans of UT in Texas that would be willing to pony up an extra $10.00-20.00 per month to watch that tripe, get media providers to make it a PPV station and give those folks full access. Then I'd offer access to individual games to non-subscribers on a game by game basis. But I'm no media guy, so I'm sure it is more complicated than that.

 

[Mr.B!!!]

This is the type of statement that would enrage me if I were one of those companies:

ESPN provided this statement: "We've attempted to do similar deals with Time Warner Cable, DirecTV, AT&T U-verse, Dish and Comcast. Unfortunately, these operators have not engaged in active negotiations in the past month. We are disappointed they are choosing to deprive Texas fans of this weekend's Kansas-UT game, as well as other valuable content."

It is ESPN and the LHN that is depriving Texas fans of the ability to watch that game. ESPN could have put it on any other network they have on any of those providers. ESPN and the LHN are holding the content hostage, not the other way around.

 

[campbest]

Just wait until the ESPN channels are up for negotiations again...

 

[bocabull]

I think ESPN did a bad deal and so did Texas. The Netflix/podcast model is going to win out.

With an Apple TV, XBOX, etc you can see where the future of media is headed. The distribution costs are way less, the software 100 times more powerful, the features more robust, everything is on demand or live (take your pick).

I am seriously thinking about contacting the Big XII office and Netflix about coming on as a consultant to make this happen. Just closed a big deal and have some spare time and this is something I know a lot about and have a strong interest in.

For example the OU game tonight should not be on some podunk channel or streaming from the website. It should be on the OU netflix channel and the OU podcast. The distribution is already huge.

 

[ksSooner13]

http://www.statesman.com/sports/longhorns/watching-horns-jayhawks-on-tv-only-if-youve-1937866.html

This is just too funy. In Austin, you cannot get the Longhorn Network. The Texas v. KU game was not televised to the majority of people living in Austin or anywhere in Texas. Rather they are running adds asking people to call their cable and satelite providers to beg for the Longhorn Network.

What is funny, is I watched the OU game, the OSU, the A&M and the Tech game in Austin. Every single Big XII game but the Texas v. KU game was on TV in Austin.

It will be quite funny if the Longhorn Network fails.

I find it funny that I was in KC visiting my parents and they had the Longhorn network showing for the KU people up there.... So We got it for free for that one night, and yet noone got it in Texas. Just made me chuckle... Texas Fail

 

[Tydude]

Texas should of not did they own network with ESPN they should of gone independence with the network like when OU gets they own network its probley run by like sooner vision or something like that not ESPN

 

[campbest]

I think ESPN did a bad deal and so did Texas. The Netflix/podcast model is going to win out.

With an Apple TV, XBOX, etc you can see where the future of media is headed. The distribution costs are way less, the software 100 times more powerful, the features more robust, everything is on demand or live (take your pick).

This x1000, it's the only real business model that I can see working for OU. I think the LHN will work eventually for Texas, but only because ESPN will be able to piggyback it on their other negotiations.

Hope OU is proactive in the sense to see where the industry is headed and not get sucked into the brick-and-mortar model that has very little chance of being successful. However, I'm not getting my hopes up.

 

[Mr.B!!!]

I think ESPN did a bad deal and so did Texas. The Netflix/podcast model is going to win out.

With an Apple TV, XBOX, etc you can see where the future of media is headed. The distribution costs are way less, the software 100 times more powerful, the features more robust, everything is on demand or live (take your pick).

I am seriously thinking about contacting the Big XII office and Netflix about coming on as a consultant to make this happen. Just closed a big deal and have some spare time and this is something I know a lot about and have a strong interest in.

For example the OU game tonight should not be on some podunk channel or streaming from the website. It should be on the OU netflix channel and the OU podcast. The distribution is already huge.

I haven't taken the plunge quite yet, but a buddy of mine basically runs everything through his XBOX and gets about 80-90% of the content that I get from a full on Cox subscription at about 20% of the price. My primary television has a direct internet connection, so I don't even need to worry about the "ring of death" on my XBOX. Based upon what I've seen, I agree with what you are saying...and Netflix is cool!

 

[bocabull]

The only thing the networks had that prevented content owners from going direct was distribution. The internet has blown that wide open. With high quality streaming platforms Apple, Netflix, Youtube, Microsoft have built and tens of millions of people going through a device to their HDTV it's going to disrupt everything. Watching on a computer sucked but those days are over.

The smart people will not give away their content for 15 years like Texas and the Big 10 have done. Those deals sound good because the media companies will overpay for today. But they have run the numbers and are underpaying for the out years.

The Big 10 is giving out around $8mil per team a year from the Big 10 network. That number won't increase much. It will be easy for OU to take their 3rd tier rights and make more than that. Kansas already makes way way more than that.

 

[campbest]

The smart people will not give away their content for 15 years like Texas and the Big 10 have done. Those deals sound good because the media companies will overpay for today. But they have run the numbers and are underpaying for the out years.
The Big 10 is giving out around $8mil per team a year from the Big 10 network. That number won't increase much. It will be easy for OU to take their 3rd tier rights and make more than that. Kansas already makes way way more than that.

Athletic Departments are under pressure from the higher ups to take as much money as possible in the short run in order to alleviate the pressure the institution feels for running an athletic department. This goes along with what some of the business analysts' opinions I have read...the money isn't going to get much better than it is now because the networks will overpay.

As the overhead costs (already lower than cable corps) continue to decrease for the outlet programming that Apple TV, Netflix etc., it will become even more advantageous for institutions to broadcast over an alternative distribution system. As the American public continues to expand into these technologies, the instititutions will see the demand and cross over.

Unfortunately a lot of these athletic departments/conferences aren't going to look at the big picture.

 

[MsProudSooner]

How would the SoonerNetwork on Netflix work? Would I go to Netflix for live games?

Wouldn't it be funny if we were on networks and potentiall on more TVs than the * Network. :ez-roll:

 

[bocabull]

How would the SoonerNetwork on Netflix work? Would I go to Netflix for live games?

Wouldn't it be funny if we were on networks and potentiall on more TVs than the * Network. :ez-roll:

Exactly. Sooner Sports would be a channel on Netflix just like any other TV show or movie. Same with Apple TV or XBOX, Sooner Sports would be a click away and all the archived or live content would be there.

This is so simple to accomplish. It costs virtually nothing to add a channel to the software interface, the streaming engine is already built, the customers already have broadband, etc.