Place to be Tuesday night...

[hithere]

There's a Q and A with the SDSU beat writer on Gagliardi's blog. The SDSU beat writer said he doesn't even get the MTN.

http://wyomingcowboysblog.com/2012/01/23/uw-san-diego-state-qa/

Maybe it's just my time of the month, but for some reason I read a lot of passive aggressive, backhanded smack into what Mark Zeigler was quoted as saying in Gagliardi's Q&A feature. If he doesn't like the Mtn., then just say it. I find it hard to believe that the San Diego Union-Tribune can't somehow spring for a Directv subscription so their own beat writer can watch conference games. I'm clearly not familiar enough with Journalism these days.

With that said, the Mtn. TV deal is, in my opinion, terrible. Just terrible. The pros of game times on the weekends are outweighed by the cons of lack of viewership that the Mtn. affords. Again, just my opinion. I'm no fan of espn either but I believe it to be a necessary evil.

At any rate, this anonymous message board poster on a completely different website says "Piss off Zeigler... you cunt. The morgue was created by a bad hire and will hopefully be remedied soon by a good one, so have fun covering future SDSU-UC Davis games in the future while I continue to not care that SDSU even exists."

 

[WyoExpat]

I actually read Zeigler's comment about the mtn not being available on Time Warner in his part of San Diego as an illustration of how bad the mtn deal is for the member schools.

There are basically two discussion that get woven together here. The group of people who pay premium prices for DirecTV and subscribe to enhanced packages talk about quality of broadcast. For many people, especially in urban areas, television access is via cable. It seems that the mtn is not very accessible on cable unless one is living within the MWC footprint and, even then, availability is limited to only a handful of cable providers. Zeigler's comment fits into the second case. Even if his employer could spring for him to see the games, that does not change the fact that most of his neighbors cannot see it.

 

[hithere]

I actually read Zeigler's comment about the mtn not being available on Time Warner in his part of San Diego as an illustration of how bad the mtn deal is for the member schools.

Yup, definitely rag time then on my part. Now I'm sobbing uncontrollably and just threw my cat out the window and called someone I've never met a cunt on the internet.

Anyhoo, not having the ability to have non-televised on the Mtn. games be rebroadcast locally, no internet streaming, hardly any presence in large scale cable markets across the country and having the worst on-air talent this side of the Pecos are all reasons why I dislike the MW tv deal.

But I'll always have something to gripe about.

 

[wyocowboy2014]

This video just makes me want us to beat them more [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXZ0iyQjTAc[/youtube]

 

[laxwyo]

No HD annoys me but I get the MTN as part of a medium package on Directv. 30 million subscribers is not limited viewership IMO

right. i think if you live in any state with a MW team, you don't need the sports pack to get the Mtn. on Directv, it might be different in California, but I get it with the Choice Xtra package. Plus I get the Mtn HD feeds when they are available unlike my cable company. My cable company sucked. Root, NBCsports, NHL network plus many more that the cable company didn't carry or didn't carry in HD. Best move I ever made.

I think Directv requires you to have the sports pack to get the mtn wherever you are.

no.

 

[Aaron]

I take it back I have the best package on DTV but I don't have the Sports Pack Extra and I get all the sports channels. But my brother has a lower package without sports and he still gets the MTN, CBS College Sports, NBC Sports and the Big Ten Network all in HD

 

[laxwyo]

If you live in certain states, you get the mtn., root and some others without the sports pack with a certain minimum package.