AURainman 6 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 While not earth shattering news, I certainly didn't see this coming! Jay G. Tate's HABOTN Throw another shrimp on the (television) barbeHey everyone. The Southeastern Conference just announced that Fox Sports Net has brokered a new television deal. FSN actually negotiated with ESPN, which bought the rights to SEC football this time last year. Anyway, the FSN family of networks (Fox Sports South, Sun Sports and Fox Sports Southwest) now will exclusively televise nine live football games each season -- beginning this fall. If you want to know about times, well, I don't have that information just yet. Here's what the entire deal includes: * Seven live, exclusive football games (presumably non-conference tilts) * 20 men’s basketball games * 24 women’s basketball games (16 regular season, eight tournament) * 16 baseball games (10 regular season, six tournament) * 24 additional Olympic sporting events (softball, volleyball, soccer, gymnastics) SO, CBS, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNregional, and now FSS. Better clear those TiVoes off before fall rolls around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG-91 1,488 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 This is potentially good news for me, seeing as how I live out here in SE Texas...Fox Sports SW is the Fox sports channel that I get, so maybe I'll get to see some games live that I wouldn't have gotten to see otherwise...most of 'em will be basketball and baseball, but something is better than nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor An Auburn Fan 0 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Im just glad we dont have to watch games on the CW anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzzurd24 11 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Apparantly, this will be non conference tilts that ESPN didn't want. This has AU vs Ball State written all over it. Maybe even La Tech. I was hoping for a little better slot(like Mid-Afternoon on ESPN2). I'd like to know when the FSN game will kick off. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor An Auburn Fan 0 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Apparantly, this will be non conference tilts that ESPN didn't want. This has AU vs Ball State written all over it. Maybe even La Tech. I was hoping for a little better slot(like Mid-Afternoon on ESPN2). I'd like to know when the FSN game will kick off. Any ideas? I would think either Mid-Afternoon or a early game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proud Tiger 4,261 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Anything without Lou Holtz is an improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarEagle007 1 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 What happened to TBS doing football broadcasts? They weren't all that bad, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holeman14 11 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Thank Goodness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AU1941 6 Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Anything without Lou Holtz is an improvement. AMEN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor An Auburn Fan 0 Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 What happened to TBS doing football broadcasts? They weren't all that bad, really. When did TBS do a football game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin5 20 Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 What happened to TBS doing football broadcasts? They weren't all that bad, really. When did TBS do a football game? I know they did a couple of bowl games that had PAC-10 teams in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auburn85 434 Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 TBS would do Big 12 games also. As late as 2006. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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