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WatchESPN Now Available on Comcast and Yes It Does Matter To the LHN
Beginning today, Comcast cable subscribers can access ESPN content on their mobile devices through the WatchESPN app. It's a free download at the iTunes Store. Access on Android devices will be available in the coming months. WatchESPN is being offered as a perk to cable subscribers. Both ESPN ...
USC Signs National Deal with ESPN Radio
ESPN Radio has reached a multi-year agreement to broadcast all USC Trojan home football games nationally. This is the first exclusive national contract for radio rights that ESPN has entered into, but it most certainly won't be the last. ESPN will offer USC football first to its over 300 network...
Sports Media Rights: Playing With Monopoly Money
In 2004 Frank McCourt bought the Los Angeles Dodgers for a little over $430 million, most of it with debt-ridden loans. He then proceeded to: drive the team into bankruptcy while driving away fans by raising ticket and concession prices annually, paid a close friend over $400,000 a year (25% of the...
Big 12 Media Contract Extension: Security > Maximum $$$
The report that the Big 12 is about to extend its media rights contract with ESPN have been out for a while now. Sports Business Daily is now saying that the pending media rights extension will be patterned after the new Pac-12 media deal, which means that ESPN and Fox would share broadcasting and...
BCS Championship Ratings Down -- Changes May Be Coming
Over 24 million viewers tuned in to watch Alabama bludgeon LSU in the BCS championship game, a number that works for ESPN. Meanwhile Conference Commissioners are thinking about making some changes to the BCS System. The final rating for the Championship game was 14.0, which means that 14% percent...
jones Top Ten - Final - 2011 Season
Ah, but to live life unapologetically, that’s the spirit, yes? To root out your cynicism and sow instead joy. To live life in the moment with nary a care for tomorrow. College football’s national championship comes tonight. Are we really going to ruin this grand occasion with our complaints and...
Texas Longhorns Football Is Ranked #1
Strong pimp hand. When it comes to generating the cash, the Horns remain on top according to Forbes and Forbes knows money. The University of Texas Longhorns have once again topped our ranking of College Football’s Most Valuable Teams, with a value of $129 million. The SB Nation mothership rounds...
A fool and his money are soon elected.
Let's hope so. As avid readers of Barking Carnival know, there is a strict NO POLITICS policy. This discussion of a politics leads a to a divisiveness and lack of intelligent discourse not seen since the great Simms / Applewhite arguments of yesteryear. This policy has served us well. Until...
LHN Sneak Preview: A Day in the Life of Dodds
I had a chance to talk to my source again, who broke the Vatican City meeting. Like I previously mentioned, he's well connected on the ins and outs of pretty much everything. We'll refer to him as the Big Assgar going forward. He's a little of both. I cornered him on potential LHN programs...
When The Lone Star Network All Came Apart
"Bill, I have a proposal. A very valuable one." The man who spoke was old, but still imposing, with an air of quiet authority. The man - called Dodds - handed the dossier to another behind a maroon mahogany desk. The man, Byrne, took it, squinted, mouthed the title haltingly, opened it, and placed...
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