The latest on OU's search for its own television network

[OUHoops]

Very interesting:

Cable customers in Austin, Texas, don’t have access to their hometown University of Texas’ Longhorn Network.

But starting next fall, those Texas subscribers will be able to see plenty of the Longhorns’ bitter rival through hours of University of Oklahoma-branded programming, thanks to a deal that’s close to being signed with Fox Sports.

Fox has agreed to carry at least 1,000 hours a year of Oklahoma programming on its FS Southwest and FS Oklahoma regional sports networks, which go to 8.6 million homes in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and, yes, Texas.

Read the rest here:

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2012/01/02/Colleges/Oklahoma.aspx

 

[tycat947]

Love it! Great news for all of us!!!

 

[seniorsooner]

Do you guys think this means that the b-ball games that are currently only carried by the "Sooner Sports Network" and broadcast in high school TV news department quality could be broadcast in HD on FSSW/FSOK?

 

[SoonerBounce13]

this is awesome news!

 

[SoonerBounce13]

Do you guys think this means that the b-ball games that are currently only carried by the "Sooner Sports Network" and broadcast in high school TV news department quality could be broadcast in HD on FSSW/FSOK?

we can only hope

 

[seniorsooner]

we can only hope

Seriously, that would be awesome. I have a hard time even sitting through one of those games the quality is so bad.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

Seriously, that would be awesome. I have a hard time even sitting through one of those games the quality is so bad.

yep. generally can't tell who has the ball and the sides are cut off.

If they could get a broadcast like the Thunder, it would be awesome

 

[boksooner]

yep. generally can't tell who has the ball and the sides are cut off.

If they could get a broadcast like the Thunder, it would be awesome

FSOK's HD for the Thunder games is pretty high quality. If they would do the same for OU games, that would be huge.

 

[MsProudSooner]

The intro paragraph in that article should have begun with these words, "Learning from the University of *'s mistakes, Oklahoma .............."

 

[lmg088]

Don't get me wrong, this is great for OU, but I have gotten use to watching OU basketball games or replays of the games on ESPN3 (online). Would this mean that these would no longer be available or are the games that fox is getting, be the very few men's bb games that ESPN doesn't pickup for ESPN3?

It will be nice though to see the one OU football game per year which is usually on PPV.

 

[p230]

ESPN3 is nice to have but my picture quality is never very good. Having to watch fewer on that would be nice.

 

[BoulderSooner]

Do you guys think this means that the b-ball games that are currently only carried by the "Sooner Sports Network" and broadcast in high school TV news department quality could be broadcast in HD on FSSW/FSOK?

All the sooner sports games have been in HD this year

 

[seniorsooner]

All the sooner sports games have been in HD this year

They have?? On what channel?

 

[MsProudSooner]

They have?? On what channel?

Cox Cable channel 703 in Tulsa has carried several of them.

 

[lmg088]

ESPN3 is nice to have but my picture quality is never very good. Having to watch fewer on that would be nice.

Only if Fox Sports has a streaming and replay option for the sooner fans that live outside of the Fox Sports SW viewing area.

Luckily for me I live in Dallas and do get Fox Sports SW. If the ESPN3 games start going to Fox Sports, i'll just have to start remembering to record the games on the DVR instead of just playing them online.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

All the sooner sports games have been in HD this year

not on dish network

 

[p230]

Only if Fox Sports has a streaming and replay option for the sooner fans that live outside of the Fox Sports SW viewing area.

Luckily for me I live in Dallas and do get Fox Sports SW. If the ESPN3 games start going to Fox Sports, i'll just have to start remembering to record the games on the DVR instead of just playing them online.

I have Fox SW on Dish but have had to watch several on ESPN3. Living out in the boonies like I do the conection is not the best so this would be better for me. Hopefully no one looses any games out of this. Shoot before with just basic cable living in town I got to watch even fewer on the TV than now. It has been one of the saving graces of Dish.

 

[Sawyer]

This is what Texas should have done in the first place.

Single-team channels like the LHN are doomed to fail, especially when you start talking hundreds of millions of dollars.

 

[lmg088]

This is what Texas should have done in the first place.

Single-team channels like the LHN are doomed to fail, especially when you start talking hundreds of millions of dollars.

I don't think Texas cares how it works out, they got what they wanted more money and something to brag to recruits. ESPN is the one taking the loss.

 

[Sawyer]

I don't think Texas cares how it works out, they got what they wanted more money and something to brag to recruits. ESPN is the one taking the loss.

True.

They got their money and they can brag. But when no one in Texas actually gets the channel and their recruits are watching three hours of OU coverage every day of the year, they may start to regret the decision in time.