Bevo TV

…..that includes live and recorded Noodle Olympic sporting events….

Good stuff.

Agree, mags. Okie Noodling as a D1 sport. OU dynasty. Or would Okie State take that?

The guy in the video looks like Chris Fowler.

BevoTV
UTTV
The Longhorn Network
DeLoss’s Balls In Your Face 24/7 TV

Anything along those lines works for me.

Telelonghorn

Btw, what’s the appeal of this network? It only has one football game a year. Will there be classic games? Without football or I guess basketball, I don’t get it. Is there a lot of demand to see volleyball and rowing?

“Btw, what’s the appeal of this network?”

For me personally it’s baseball. Of course I’ll watch whatever football or basketball games are on too, but actually being able to watch a good amount of Texas baseball on TV is what has me hard.

love Uncle Ted!

The US Patent & Trademark Office is a great resource for finding out what people are going to name things before they officially release their name.

Right now, the Board of Regents has filings for:

Longhorn Network
UTexas Channel
UTexas Network
Texas Channel
Texas Network
Longhorns Channel
Longhorns Network
Texas Longhorns Channel
Texas Longhorns Network
TXLN
TXLC

There’s quite a bit more — for a complete list go to:

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=search&state=4004:ratgbt.1.1

and search:

1b[cb] and “university of texas”[on]

~Your friendly IP attorney

The Breaking Bad reruns will be worth 3 credit hours as a personal finance class at OU.

He shoots, he scores!! Nice, kevwun.

TT, my boy was with him on one of those Jesus planes that lands on water while bear hunting in Alaska. Not surprisingly he said he had a blast.

I know I am going to sound like a 12yo, and that might be the target audience, but what about filming cheerleader practices?

Think they might run any commercials for teeth whitening products? Because I think UT might have a spokesman ready to go for that.

kevwun,

That was nicely done.

Let’s (appropriately) call it “The Rubicon.”

I understand why it’s win/win for both UT and the Worldwide Leader, but make no mistake: in terms of general public perception, UT has now officially joined the New York Yankees, Dallas Cowboys, and Notre Dame as one of sports’ most polarizing brands.

Noted, though infrequent, Husker blogger Ojnab Bob sent me this link which is worth a read:

The Longhorn Network — The $300 Million Mystery

Is it a mystery or does ESPN just want to kill super-conferences and playoffs?

I nominate Big Mc for Director of Programming.

Nominations are now closed.

Earlier today, I walk into the office of a booze distributor in Las Vegas, NV, and the four guys in there are talking about the UT/ESPN network deal. UT will be more polarizing than Notre Dame, because this football program will be relevant. In a couple years, more people will hate UT, than those who either love the university, or don’t give a rat’s behind.

In a couple years, more people will hate UT, than those who either love the university, or don’t give a rat’s behind.

TV eyeballs that hate the Longhorns count exactly the same as eyeballs that love them. The more, the better.

What’s the reason to love UT if you have no ties? This network deal will be a curse.

Did you watch Notre Dame more with the NBC deal?

following the logic set forth by Tank it would appear ESPN will pursue sim agreements with the top schools from each of the BCS conferences (except Big 10)

If they contract with SoCal and Oregon, that might kill a Pac 12 network; take Fla and Ala for SEC and whoever is important in ACC and Big East. A sort of preemptive ‘union busting’.

While Im happy for the ESPN investment, if it becomes an obstacle for playoffs then I think D1 football suffers.

Can one of the media/network savvy Barkers comment on the impact to the chances for a playoff?

Great site BTW
Thanks

ESPN will ruin sports, because eventually, it will ALL be WWE … the entertainment will trump the sport.

@LHDoc

I sensing you aren’t thrilled with this?

I want Gus Johnson on our payroll. Hoops games, Shakespeare lectures, whatever.

You are correct, Hank. I can’t help but live in the past, and in my narrow view of life, the games functioned as a way to teach boys how to become outstanding men. Sports was a metaphor for life. Now, it seems to be about fantasy leagues, market shares, tv ratings, revenue generated, fame, etc. Pardon my french, but with each passing year, it looks more like shit. My view seems to be out-dated.

I wish ESPN would go away … far, far away.

“What’s the appeal of this network?”

Jeebus, what part of 24/7/365 exposure to all things UT don’t you understand?! This isn’t just about sports, much less only about football, it’s about indoctrinating the youth/population of Texas (and beyond) that the only school worth attending is UT—and only UT. Goodness, time for a freshman-level marketing course here at hidebound BC………….

You turn down a deal that financially enhances both academics and sports because you are afraid that someone might not like you? I don’t think so. If Texas is viewed as the next Yanks (go Sox), Domers or Cowboys so be it.

Yeah, we’re Texas … what did program arrogance produce for UT fans this year? we’re Texas …

TXPN (this from Jerome Solomon of the Hou. Chronicle)

I don’t see the network as something many of us would watch. I doubt I subscribe. Hours and hours of school PR, which is fine but doesn’t interest me. A few live games — but all the major ones will stay with the Big 12 package or whatever replaces it. Look, we already have massive advantages in terms of resources over all our conference rivals except maybe Oklahoma. Texas A&M has the potential to be close to our equal. Potential, I said. The rest trail and always will (in terms of the ability to pull in dollars).

I’m not sure this is good. We can spend our way out of the Big XII-2, get into an athletic/financial stratrosphere that maybe 10-20 other universities can attain. We can be the founding daddy of the first true superconferenc . . . but what have we got? We’ll win titles, but our advantages will be so great that it’d be like the Steelers winning the Big East.

I like to win, I want to win, at this point I expect to win. You keep going along that spectrum, and what have you got? Dunno. And won’t live long enough to find out.

If the new revenue means end of Bob Cole and the scoreboard commercials, then it’s worth celebrating.

Did the NBC deal help Notre Dame win more football games?

All y’all dummies missed the greatness of the thread. We had a guy post as ‘greg rn’.

Focker here’s a male nurse.

I hit it off with Ted Nugent’s niece at my wife’s Colgate reunion. Picture a girl in a Lilly Pulitzer dress and Jack Rogers sandals who inherited the familial savage glare and parties like Ted backstage at the ‘78 Texxas Jam. Yeah, I’d watch an educational show with her talking finance.

Whatever it is, by all means, leave ESPN out of the title. Welcome to say ESPN on _ Network or have a small ESPN logo in the background for a post-game show for cross promotion purposes, just keep it out of the official title and logo of the channel. The title should be separate from the ESPN label and the logo should probably end up a design of either the outline of the state, a longhorn head, the Hook’em Horns signal, or the tower.

I’d prefer the elegance of either the Longhorn Network or Texas Network.

Forty Acres Network makes the list in large part due to the acronym.

The Burnt Orange Network would nicely feed the BOMC theme.

I reckon Hook’em Network or Bevo Network would come immediately afterward.

For those who dislike Texas, I’d suggest the Flagship Network of Texas because they’ll think it arrogant and will enjoy saying, “Turn off the F.N. Texas channel!”

The ESPN guy at the presser made a big point that the network will not have their name in it precisly because of the idea that they might have any influence over programming or that they might be inclined to report about UT in a biased way, FWIW. He specifically said “this is the Universiry of Texas’ network, not ESPN’s, and they have total control of its content”.

Of course this ups the ante, as far as I can see, for us to continue to have a top shelf football program, last year notwithstanding, and not become ND. But we don’t have the academic restrictions they do, either so I think it’s less likely we will.