Scott, or anyone, know if ESPNU will be added soon?

[Harry]

Saw on the D* forum where D* is rumored to be doing a promo 1 August to give away thier HD, Mepg4 equipment with a 2 yr commitment.

I am interested in getting ESPNU, which D* carries, but E* won't say if they will or not.

Do any of you insiders/E* employees know if E* will be picking up ESPNU by football season?

 

[mwgiii]

I hope they add it before football.

CSTV has been uplinked on the sat since last fall and Dish has still not released it.

 

[Roger]

What is CSTV? I think every game on ESPNU will be available on Gameplan.

 

[mwgiii]

College Sports TV

http://www.cstv.com/

They will be showing some 1A games from the WAC or Mountain West conference as well as 1AA games.

 

[jrbdmb]

From what I've read elsewhere ESPNU will be showing GamePlan games (and perhaps the regional ABC telecasts) on a tape delay basis.

As to whether or not Dish picks it up, all you can to is fire off an e-mail to Dish and hope for the best.

 

[TNGTony]

Just an FYI, word is...as long as ABC/ESPN wants to charge what they are asking for the channel now and insist on having it on a basic package the answer is it will NEVER be on Dish. In reality, those who want yet another sports channel showing similar content to what is available on a half a dozen other channels already will have to wait until the ESPN retransmission contract is up for renewal. At that time, I am sure there will be another knock-down drag-out between Dish and ABC resulting in the channel being available somehow.

See ya
Tony

 

[rocatman]

Just an FYI, word is...as long as ABC/ESPN wants to charge what they are asking for the channel now and insist on having it on a basic package the answer is it will NEVER be on Dish. In reality, those who want yet another sports channel showing similar content to what is available on a half a dozen other channels already will have to wait until the ESPN retransmission contract is up for renewal. At that time, I am sure there will be another knock-down drag-out between Dish and ABC resulting in the channel being available somehow.

See ya
Tony

I guess Disney/ESPN/ABC wants folks to pay for their incredibly financially stupid contract they signed with the NBA a few years back. I believe NBC had a major part of the previous NBA contract and lost over a billion dollars with it so Disney goes out and offers the NBA even more money than NBC.

 

[imported_Judicature]

What explains the lack of CSTV on E*?

 

[garn9173]

thought I read someplace the cost for ESPNU was fairly cheap, far cheaper than most other regional sports net because most of the programming was a retransmission of ESPN Regional telecasts. If E* wanted to add ESPNU, all they have to do is add it to the sports pack and make money off it.

 

[carload]

Just an FYI, word is...as long as ABC/ESPN wants to charge what they are asking for the channel now and insist on having it on a basic package the answer is it will NEVER be on Dish.

DirecTV has ESPNU (and CSTV) in its Sports Pack. Is Disney really insisting that ESPNU has to be in a basic package?

 

[jrbdmb]

DirecTV was allowed to add ESPN-U to the Sports Pack only (as mentioned above). *Perhaps* Dish decided it wasn't worth adding ESPN-U right before the summer (they did miss a lot of college baseball). They did the same thing with Comcast-Chicago, adding that channel only when the Cubs season started (Chicago Bulls games be damned).

The best chance of seeing ESPN-U and CSTV added will probably be in the next month or so.

 

[oo7565]

DirecTV has ESPNU (and CSTV) in its Sports Pack. Is Disney really insisting that ESPNU has to be in a basic package?
id not know if disney wants that i hope they do it they have espnews on basic dish i think i could be wrong but on dish top 60 i think they have tvg horce racing for crying out if horse racing can be on top 60 why cant espnu?