YA
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Which is owned by Chatham Asset Management, a private equity firm.
CBS Sports: Realignment Fallout, What's Next
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BrewingFrog
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Ah. I stand corrected.
As an aside, I have a long drive later today and thought it'd be fun to tune into the BIGXII Network (owned by ESPN) to get their (heh!) "take" on matters...
gohornedfrogs
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Hey, the Steele Dossier worked, didn't it?
BrewingFrog
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"We all have it comin, Kid." -- Will Munny
About 10 years ago Steel had a case involving a content distributer and a cable company, fighting over a contract. ESPN wasn't a party but ESPN was the reason for the lawsuit, but nobody would DARE to sue ESPN because they play hardball. Example, the fear was if you sue ESPN then they withhold their content from you as a cable content aggregator or cable company and without ESPN you quickly go under.
There was even a facet where ESPN was in breach of its contract and yet noone called them on it because they knew they'd be blackballed. So, rather than sue ESPN, they just sued each other.
BTW, the amount that ESPN gets as a content creator was astounding in comparison to the Discovery/History channels of the world, which get a few pennies per subscriber per month while ESPN gets like $5-6/subscriber/month.
Anyway, from that lawsuit it was very clear that ESPN does no play nice with people, and everyone knows it.
To this day Steel does not have ESPN.
There was even a facet where ESPN was in breach of its contract and yet noone called them on it because they knew they'd be blackballed. So, rather than sue ESPN, they just sued each other.
BTW, the amount that ESPN gets as a content creator was astounding in comparison to the Discovery/History channels of the world, which get a few pennies per subscriber per month while ESPN gets like $5-6/subscriber/month.
Anyway, from that lawsuit it was very clear that ESPN does no play nice with people, and everyone knows it.
To this day Steel does not have ESPN.
Eight
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fixed it for you
Dogfrog
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gohornedfrogs
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And that $5 a month from each cable subscriber (which is more now) is the reason ESPN could guarantee $1 billion deals to leagues like the B12.
We need to be grateful for all those Fox News boomers out there who subscribe to cable just so they can get their fill of Hannity. They're the ones paying the lion's share of the $35 or so million TCU gets from the TV networks every year...
Why do we need to be grateful? Steel couldn't give two dogcraps what TCU, an educational institution, gets from a tv contract for football. Maybe TCU should focus on not overpaying for professors who work too little (and many of whom don't actually know how to teach anyway), and having a million overpaid administration people to give the impression that they give two dogcraps about diversity, and deliver a product that someone wants to pay for at a price that they are willing to pay. Without suckling at the Government's teat. How about that?
Double D
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Do Steel a favor!
Double D
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TCUClint
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Haha ask and you shall receive! I’ve had this one written for a week and finally had a chance to shoot it last night at like 2 am. Enjoy!
HG73
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Too many teeth to be from WV.
Hoosierfrog
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Yeah, but then what about all the conference fans that visit the Dr Pepper museum and the Baptist Museum of Dance and Alcohol. Surely BU would be a gem for any prospective conference…
BrewingFrog
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Well, it was Arkansas that was rumored to be the birthplace of toothpaste...
Not to mention the famous Texas Creation Museum, with in an hour away... which is only several stone throws from Fossil Rim(dinosaur fossils). Now that's special, lol!
Brevity Frog
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I will be at “anger” for a very long time. scheiss OUT.
