Question about the LHN

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Ramius

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When was the last time a UT football game wasn't on teevee?

Tell me again how having the LHN adds programming options?

Can you understand how the schools/opponents might not be so keen about playing on the network? You aren't offering anything new(televised game vs UT). But are asking fans to pony up more cash.

The whole "everybody else can have a network too" defense just doesn't really hold water or have anything to do with the crux of the argument.
 
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Your post clearly said "QUESTION" which indicates a single question. You asked multiple questions and because of your deception, none shall be answered. Good day Sir!
 
1. The LHN offers more than just live football games
2. ESPN offered UT $300 million for the rights
3. What ******* idiot would turn that down?
 
It's not just about football.

It's not just about football.

It's not just about football.

How many times must that be pounded into hard heads?


dumb phucks........



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Funny part about it is that no one in the rooms where it was being discussed. minded about the project underway... UNTIL it was released. THEN the **** hit the fan when those programs realized it was successfully partnered... AND to what degree.

Like, "Holy ****!!..You did what? For what? Hey, you can't do it if it's, like, a freaking Mercedes. ESPN? Are you shitting me!! No freaking way. Hold on. I take back my position."

As to doing the LHN, in general, I just have this to say:

iPod (mp3 player)
iPhone (smart phone)
iPad

Go back before all that, to late 80s.. Mouse? Windows enviornment?

I was in Silicon Valley when Macs were just SEs. I worked in offices with freaking MS-Dos TEXT on screens. I lived through that crap when Microsoft has zero ******* vision.

Go to a Best Buy right now. Go to the mobile phone section. Look at the phones you see now AFTER the iPhone came out.

Go look at desktops that now all have widescreen formats. AFTER the Titanium Powerbook hit the markets in around year 2000. All that has changed.

Apps. ?? Huh? Never heard of it until Steve Jobs did a "LHN" on the industry. Now everybody has Apps. Or is trying to. By the way, I hear Android is tanking. Or, not doing so well as expected.

The point is... VISIONARY STUFF. Texas is being hated for being bold and basically pulling a Steve Jobs and... well, 'jobbing' the football landscape with a kick-*** network, and everybody is freaked out. That's what it is about.

Why have the network, and why 3rd tier programming on it? Why an iPod (mp3 player)? Why an iPhone (smart phone)? Same thing.

What the Longhorn Network did was finally embarrass Texas A&M... which... is an engineering school!! That university could not even envision and build a network and get it partnered. They had a chance to team up with TEXAS and go in on it -- but HAD NO VISION. That is how screwed up that leadership is over there.

So, all you aggies who have a beef about the LHN... take a deep breath and really be honest with yourselves.

The LHN was done... because it was there. To be done.
Because it is an innovative top quality thing to do, and it's ahead of it's time.

And The University of Texas was the only program apparently capable of actually doing it. The State of Texas should be really proud about it. And I think most will be when the thing really gets fully airborne. Meantime, it's as crazy an idea as.... Twitter. Or all the products Steve Jobs has created.

It's really cool. Just like all the stuff you find in an Apple Store.

(typing this on my 24" iMac!!)

I am totally proud of UT. Hands down, proud!!
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And you know what, UT has been a class act on this thing all along. Talk today was that when it was created, in the planning stages, it was announced openly with no hidden agendas. There were no blindfolds or ear plugs in rooms where key officials from the conference were let in on it.

The only thing that happened was that it turned out so magnificently. And it hit everyone like the iPods, iPhones and iPads. Now everyone in those industries is following.

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Hu,
On the money. As I sit here watching LHN which I have streamed through my ipad effortlessly to my apple tv to enjoy LHN in full glory I am trying to decide which is cooler - apple innovation or Longhorn innovation.
 
So you'd rather pay 50.00 for a game once or twice a year?

Again, this is nothing new.

TigerVision. Lsu's PPV channel has been around since 1982.
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What makes OUR network amazing is that its 24 hours of programming for things OTHER THAN FOOTBALL.
 
Ha, Hu_fan,

I was just thinking of this very thing today on my early flight.
So many of the ideas that changed the world were shot down by cynics or people who stood to lose their "place".


UT= Galileo
A$M, OU = Catholic church

UT= Columbus
A$M, OU= World is flat idiots

UT= Beethoven
A$M, OU= Dualing piano players.

Feel free to add other examples and we can reference this thread when it is proven once again,
What happens here changes the world.
 
I agree, Pecos, it would.

Sorry, I guess I wasn't very clear about my position. My question isn't why is the LHN good for UT.

My questiont is - Why is it good for your opponents?

You guys like to say it's not about football but I believe you do have the KU game scheduled for broadcast.

So, a game that for however many times you've played KU since '01 has been televised.

This year, KU fans now have to pay UT to watch that game.

How is that good for the Jayhawk fans? (and yes, I know the school will probably be paid)
 
Taps, you know I wasn't talking about tickets.

I give up.

I've tried to explain the resistance of other schools to the network. It has nothing to do with jealousy. It really doesn't have to due with tier 3 rights.....well maybe it does.

Let me try this one more time...

You see, you all have the power to move tier 1 games to tier 3 and onto your network because of your relationship with ESPN.

THAT is what I think most folks are pushing against.

And it's why I asked about your televised games. Your football games haven't been tier 3 for a decade and now all of a sudden you have a tier 3 network and walla, football is now tier 3.

Doesn't add up. And it's disingenuous at best.
 
after watching a couple of 12 minute segments via youtube from another thread, it's clear the LHN is going to change things for alums and fans in a huge way!

I can't wait for baseball season, the LHN for baseball will be some greatness & what we've been waiting for a long, long time.

Imagine (a) seeing our games, (b) having the MLB TV's equivalent of Diamond Demos given by the likes of Roger Clemens, Spike Owen etc, (c) classic games - for all sports, (d) all the other spring sports (e) spring football (f) football signees' highlights, interviews, etc.

Look, this thing is pure 100% greatness. I mocked the LHN for weeks with friends, thought it would be 24/7 of YuckMonkey tv - the kind of "late night interviews with Psychics from the Water Department" stuff.....What I saw was complete greatness. Been wtg on this for decades & it's finally here.

Now i know why Dodds won't give it up. I wouldn't either.
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Looking at the TV appearances list above I see several games that were available PPV only and that it would be better for the fans to get a LHN game as part of the LHN package rather than having to pay for an individual game.

The KU game was covered under 1st and 2nd tier conference contracts and movement to LHN and the money paid was probably an attempt to pressure more cable operators to carry LHN.

We will see by gameday if it was an effective move.

The LHN represents 24/7 365 day potential for Longhorn fans.

There are only 12 games + bowl of UT football available to show on TV of which most will be on ABC/ESPN/Fox/FX Tier 1 or 2 contracts and there are 353 days left to fill.

ESPN has bet $300M that they will have content to meet fan demand.

Water polo is just one example.

Tier 3 rights are the future of incremental college sports revenue and the LHN is just the first of many to follow. Look at ND, BYU etc and you will see what is coming.

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Ramius using your example:

KU is not a Tier 1 to Tier 3 game by a stretch.

ABC/ESPN would not be showing KU @ TX on nationwide coverage. ABC/ESPN would pick the 2:30 and 7pm games followed by FOX for 11am and 6pm.

If KU has a bad year as it looks it might be on regional FOX Plus or ppv. Now it is on LHN.

Certainly not a Tier1 game.
 
Ramius the KU fans will get to watch the KU @ UT game in Austin on the Jayhawk Network on these broadcast channels:

Sept. 14, 2011





LAWRENCE, Kan. – The Jayhawk Television Network’s (JTN) affiliate lineup is set for the telecast of the KU-Texas football game in Austin Oct. 29.

The game will air in High Definition on these over-the-air stations in Kansas City and throughout the state of Kansas:

KSMO 62 - Kansas City

WIBW 13 (CBS) - Topeka

KSAS 24 (Fox) - Wichita

KAAS-TV (Fox) - Salina

KOCW-TV (Fox) - Great Bend

KSAS-TV (Fox) - Dodge City

KAAS-TV (Fox) - Garden City

The Jayhawk Network will supplement The Longhorn Network’s feed of the game with JTN announcers (to be determined), graphics and cameras. It is JTN’s first-ever statewide football telecast; the game will appear on the Longhorn Television Network in Texas and elsewhere around the country.
 
Ramius, quit your bitchin and just buy a goddamned ticket and go to the game. Texas is not responsible for the happiness and welfare of KU fans.

It's all on KU that the Texas game is on the LHN. ESPN and ABC are not the only outlet for Big XII football.
 
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