Tony Petitti named new Big 10 Commissioner

[Aaron 4,547]

18 hours ago, OliviaPope40 said:

Can we talk about having to pay for BTN+ and whether Bardo should still be calling games?

Every conference has an extra streaming subscription service to watch some of the smaller sports. ACC, SEC, Big 12, Pac 12 have ESPN+ which is same price per month. Big East has Big East Digital. Smaller conferences use ESPN+ also.

BTN+ is no different than any other league in how they handle Olympic sports. The issue is leaving the broadcast itself in hands of the schools where some take it seriously (IU generally does but if they run out of students to help they will do a one camera broadcast) and some will use a single camera with no announcer. This is what needs to change. Every other league the streaming service handles the broadcasts rather than the schools. As a result some BTN+ telecasts are pretty poor quality. This is what has to change (particularly if they are adding replay in all the sports as seems to be the case next year). The platform itself and the way it is accessed is very much on par with other conferences (most Olympic sports streamed for extra $$$ online only with a few games on regular TV although the latter could be increased somewhat as Btown said). The issue is 100% the quality.

I would be happy for Bardo to go:).

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46 minutes ago, Aaron said:

Every conference has an extra streaming subscription service to watch some of the smaller sports. ACC, SEC, Big 12, Pac 12 have ESPN+ which is same price per month. Big East has Big East Digital. Smaller conferences use ESPN+ also.

BTN+ is no different than any other league in how they handle Olympic sports. The issue is leaving the broadcast itself in hands of the schools where some take it seriously (IU generally does but if they run out of students to help they will do a one camera broadcast) and some will use a single camera with no announcer. This is what needs to change. Every other league the streaming service handles the broadcasts rather than the schools. As a result some BTN+ telecasts are pretty poor quality. This is what has to change (particularly if they are adding replay in all the sports as seems to be the case next year). The platform itself and the way it is accessed is very much on par with other conferences (most Olympic sports streamed for extra $$$ online only with a few games on regular TV although the latter could be increased somewhat as Btown said). The issue is 100% the quality.

I would be happy for Bardo to go:).

I would prefer them hook up the radio announcers for IU games with the TV stream.  The TV announcers they've used, yes I understand they're "students", are usually bad and have no clue about baseball. Not their fault, but it shouldn't be an "everyone gets a trophy" thing. I'm paying for that product. 

I think that step would help, as well.  Many schools do this in ESPN+... and I know Penn St did it for our series and that guy was very good. 

[Aaron 4,547]

4 hours ago, btownqb said:

I would prefer them hook up the radio announcers for IU games with the TV stream.  The TV announcers they've used, yes I understand they're "students", are usually bad and have no clue about baseball. Not their fault, but it shouldn't be an "everyone gets a trophy" thing. I'm paying for that product. 

I think that step would help, as well.  Many schools do this in ESPN+... and I know Penn St did it for our series and that guy was very good. 

As long as IU has the media school and they use it as a way to get experience for the students that is not changing. Maybe games like Wednesday they sync the radio once replay arrives when students are not available. However, as long as students are available they will be used to gain experience for most broadcasts.  

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Just now, Aaron said:

As long as IU has the media school and they use it as a way to get experience for the students that is not changing. Maybe games like Wednesday they sync the radio once replay arrives when students are not available. However, as long as students are available they will be used to gain experience for most broadcasts.  

Unfortunate 

[AZ Hoosier 10,969]

As long as IU has the media school and they use it as a way to get experience for the students that is not changing. Maybe games like Wednesday they sync the radio once replay arrives when students are not available. However, as long as students are available they will be used to gain experience for most broadcasts.  

It’s not unlike having a coronary bypass at a “teaching” hospital. Most of the time, the experience is similarly painful.

[Magnanimous 5,362]

Disney is a mess and may be looking to sell ABC, change how it delivers ESPN packages to consumers, etc. as part of overhauling its entire business model (as well as possibly selling to Apple?). Further reinforces how important it was for the Big Ten to partner with other networks for its CFB slate. 

[Tom White 1,435]

12 hours ago, Magnanimous said:

as well as possibly selling to Apple?

That is merely some Apple fans dreams. Ain't gonna happen, and never was.

[AKHoosier 7,743]

On 7/13/2023 at 8:09 PM, Magnanimous said:

Disney is a mess and may be looking to sell ABC, change how it delivers ESPN packages to consumers, etc. as part of overhauling its entire business model (as well as possibly selling to Apple?). Further reinforces how important it was for the Big Ten to partner with other networks for its CFB slate. 

Disney has been a sinking ship for a while.  They'll survive in the long run, but I'm hoping they jettison ESPN, and the network can get back to what it has done best for years: focus on sports.

They are, after all, a SPORTS network.