they have alt channels for football... Use them for hoops. This is crap!
BTN Sucks...
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Complete joke...then show a double box for like 30 seconds...leave it up there...grrrr
I pay for cable for a reason. The alt. Channels can easily be used to put the game that's supposed to be on. It's a joke that they don't do that.
Because they do it for 3 of 4 FB games at a time. Don't tell me they can't afford it.
They know well in advance that they're going to do it for those football games. It's scheduled that way. I'm not going to pretend to know the ins and outs of it but I don't think you do either.
Wouldn't be that hard.. ESPN does it often. If nothing else, they could go split screen when it happens.
ESPN usually puts games on one of their other stations and BTN is not nearly the size of ESPN. I don't think they're doing it just to piss you off but I could be wrong.
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"During football season, we have access to an extra control room that's in a facility in Houston that enables us to show another game on that feed," the president of the Big Ten Network Mark Silverman told SB Nation. "That doesn't exist during basketball and hockey season because there's all these other networks showing basketball and hockey. We don't have that available to us. So we can't show a second game while another game's going on once football season ends."
In what's not really even a question of resources and more demand for a greater number of networks renting these broadcast facilities than there are supply, BTN and other conference and regional networks' hands are tied.
"We have, during the football season, the ability to have multiple games on. And what distributors do is, rather than have that channel on your system for the games and then take it away, most of them leave it on all year. So you'll see the same thing on twice, even though we only have one channel," Silverman explained.
"People see two channels on their system and they're like, 'Wait a second, why can't you put one game on one way...' We don't have that ability to get that game distributed. It's not available to us," Silverman reiterated. "So what we do instead is, it's free, it's on [the network's streaming companion website/app, 'BTN2Go'], [we] try to make it broadly available, promote it non-stop, and we try to go back-and-forth [in-game]. We try and show split screens, we try and show [the action from the other game] during timeouts."
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http://www.sbnation.com/platform/am...g-ten-pac-12-acc-network-no-overflow-channels
"During football season, we have access to an extra control room that's in a facility in Houston that enables us to show another game on that feed," the president of the Big Ten Network Mark Silverman told SB Nation. "That doesn't exist during basketball and hockey season because there's all these other networks showing basketball and hockey. We don't have that available to us. So we can't show a second game while another game's going on once football season ends."
In what's not really even a question of resources and more demand for a greater number of networks renting these broadcast facilities than there are supply, BTN and other conference and regional networks' hands are tied.
"We have, during the football season, the ability to have multiple games on. And what distributors do is, rather than have that channel on your system for the games and then take it away, most of them leave it on all year. So you'll see the same thing on twice, even though we only have one channel," Silverman explained.
"People see two channels on their system and they're like, 'Wait a second, why can't you put one game on one way...' We don't have that ability to get that game distributed. It's not available to us," Silverman reiterated. "So what we do instead is, it's free, it's on [the network's streaming companion website/app, 'BTN2Go'], [we] try to make it broadly available, promote it non-stop, and we try to go back-and-forth [in-game]. We try and show split screens, we try and show [the action from the other game] during timeouts."
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http://www.sbnation.com/platform/am...g-ten-pac-12-acc-network-no-overflow-channels
Translation.... We don't want to spend the $$$. They could at least go split screen.
Can they please stop putting back to back games at two hour clips together. The previous game never ends on time. Leave a half hour in between. 6:30/9 or 7:00/9:30. Big Ten Fans will still watch even if the previous game does end on time. Even with triple OT we see at least 10 minutes of the first half - joke
Then they wouldn't have time to show 5 straight episodes of the same B1G show and journey
Look at the bright side, as Indiana struggled to finish off PSU, Hoosier Nation got to watch Purdue's lead baloon against the team that took care of Indiana over the weekend.
I didn't have access to Big Ten to Go tonight, so I missed the entire first half. What bothered me the most was when they covered the time outs and refs in a middle of a conference. In those moments, at least go to a split screen and keep it split screen to the very last second. They also should have gone to a split screen once the game was in hand in the 3rd overtime. Seeing the score in the upper left corner at least made the wait more bearable however! Glad we took café of business and got the "W"!
Although their ratings are probably better having the games overlap versus having 15-20 minutes of studio time between games.
What? You mean you don't want 15-20 minutes of Jess Settles? I'm shocked. VBG.
I think the major issue was that it was an overtime game for two crappy teams (IU vs. PSU) versus two ranked opponents at the top of the conference.
Wait, he's still not playing for Iowa???
They wouldn't if they didn't go to the monitor 50 times. I still think PSU got screwed. That shot in the second OT was late.
They also got screwed on the inbound pass to Johnson at the end of I think the first overtime. He took 3 steps before he dribbled the ball. Penn St should have had the ball on their end with about 3.5 seconds left.
