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Well you see, especially in the NYC markets, they don't suffer fools. If the YES Network struggled to gain acceptance by some of the cable outlets up there, the BTN has ZERO chance to gain access to the upper tiers.

This is why I think it was a desperate, stupid, almost vindictive move by Delany.

Without addressing the issue directly, the article gives the basic outline of how the BTN could survive/prosper in a world of a la carte cable. If Fox bundles the BTN with the YES, telling subscribers that the only way they can get the YES (which is in high demand in the NY area) is to also buy the BTN, then the BTN will get their revenue. I am wrong here?

YES got a fight for their most popular team's network and there was a delay in getting it on the cable lineup. Now they want to ask people to pay more for something that that they don't want?

It could happen, but I hope they push back and it blows up in Delaney's face.

With the streaming internet stuff coming, a lot of younger people aren't buying cable because of the price. If you get internet from a phone company, you can completely circumvented the cable company and then you buy a DVD player or TV with NetFlix software and who needs HBO? The cable companies have to loosen up and offer a la carte or the Feds could get involved because it's a virtual monopoly right now.

My advisor in undergrad was part of a group that was beta testing a new TV from Apple over a year ago. It was like a giant cell phone where you loaded stations like they were apps. It was sorta top secret so I kept it to myself but went on TOS telling everyone how ala carte was going to be here in a year or 2. Well, here we are and still no ala carte'. I guess the TV didn't pass the test? It was pretty cool though. He could literally watch any program or event ever televised any time he wanted.

I am a Comcast customer. So I have ESPN3 and I watched the Cuse game on my iphone because I had a wake to attend. So it's already here. Hulu is $7.99/month for my iphone and I can see all TV shows the next day without cable.

I have a lap top with HDMI outputs and watched PITT/FIU on ESPN3 last year on my 50inch through the laptop. I don't even need ESPN, because those are all on ESPN 3 as well. I watched PITT/ND second half on my iphone through the free NBC app while trick or treating this year. Again, no cable needed, only internet.

This thing is only going to open up and I have to think that the ACC Network is a possibility. Rather than ESPN3 saying "commercial break" they can sell advertising for those blocks of time when the internet feeds become more popular and this is the revenue stream that ESPN & the ACC can share in.

I can see the TV listings being like Wii screen with a similar remote that you point and click and it loads internet pages to access uploaded or live streaming content.

To me, this B1G Network is banking on an almost past system.

The biggest problem with the Big 10 network is that very few good matchups are shown on it...so if I'm an alum of say UM or OSU living in NYC, most if not all of my team's games will be on ABC/ESPN/ESPN 3