Conference Schedule & TV Times
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Well, this is the future of TV IMO. a big sign up by cyclone fans will help in the next round of re-alignment - which will be more about schools with fan bases that will actually pay to watch their teams games on TV (ex. Iowa State) instead of schools that have very few interested fans but are in large media markets (ex. Rutgers).
Yes, it's just in the ESPN app and it works with chromecast.
http://www.espn.com/espn/apps/espn?rand=ref~{"ref":"https://www.espn.com/watch/espnplus/?om-navmethod=topnav"}
Believe me guys, you will get used to it quick and actually find it pretty convenient. ESPN has an app on every streaming device and their phone app is Chromecast compatible.
There's a TON of content on ESPN+ as well. All the 30 for 30s. Every MLS match. A MLB game every day. Tons of college sports. Every game is archived and on demand 30 minutes after its over. Also, you get access to all of what used to be 'Insider' content on ESPN.com.
The Big 12 made the right move here. They're pulling in just as much money as everybody else and are getting out ahead of the tech curve. This is the way all sports is going and by being an early adapter they're really carving out a nice niche. This is a MILLION times better scenario than the Pac 12 has and probably better than the ACC as you don't have to fight for carriage.
There's a TON of content on ESPN+ as well. All the 30 for 30s. Every MLS match. A MLB game every day. Tons of college sports. Every game is archived and on demand 30 minutes after its over. Also, you get access to all of what used to be 'Insider' content on ESPN.com.
The Big 12 made the right move here. They're pulling in just as much money as everybody else and are getting out ahead of the tech curve. This is the way all sports is going and by being an early adapter they're really carving out a nice niche. This is a MILLION times better scenario than the Pac 12 has and probably better than the ACC as you don't have to fight for carriage.
I have the ESPN App on my Sony TV - Use it when weather get bad and Directv doesn't work. Also with all of the ISU online events going to ESPN+ (Big12 now) next year that were on Cylones.tv there will not be a lot of difference in what you are paying and will have a ton more content.
I know that LG pulled a couple of apps from their smart TVs that came previously installed, and I don’t think they have a store to download more. We have an LG in the bedroom but the rest are Samsung.
I'm usually bad at explaining things, but I'll give it a try.
In the ESPN app there are two sign-ins, one for a tv provider and one for espn+. They are independent from each other so you can either have one of these or both. The TV provider sign-in will give you access to what you have in your tv subscription, like espn, espn2, etc. The ESPN+ sign-in will give you access to the content that is on ESPN+, you would not have access to the "cable channels"(espn, espn2 etc). If you are signed into both, you would have access to all of these.
Based on the great crowd and them getting smashed by 17 last year, I wouldn’t call that lucking out.
$13/mo for disney/hulu/espn+ is a steal.
cut the cord on cable, fire up a roku/apple tv/whatever and your'e good to go with all the cyclone content you need on espn+.
its going to be great.
oh and without the longhorn network, ISU is in the mac and there's no bowled in endzone, no gameday, no matt campbell, no prohm, no nothing.
cut the cord on cable, fire up a roku/apple tv/whatever and your'e good to go with all the cyclone content you need on espn+.
its going to be great.
oh and without the longhorn network, ISU is in the mac and there's no bowled in endzone, no gameday, no matt campbell, no prohm, no nothing.
The Big 12 didn't get any kind of bump for sending their tier 3 product to ESPN+. They gave ESPN 3 more CCG's and all their tier 3 product for $40M. The championship games alone previously netted a lot more than that. It will not do better than the ACC Network IMO. Hopefully, ESPN has signaled to the Big 12 take this deal and we will make sure next contract round they continue to fund them at a competitive P5 level. Maybe there is encouragement from ESPN for PAC schools to look at the Big 12 with ESPN+ having the Big 12 and the PAC refusing to have ESPN run their conference network.
It is not.
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If you guys want ISU to continue getting $40 million a year for TV rights, you gotta be okay with this. ESPN could have very easily cut the amount of money they gave the Big 12. They didn't.
Viewing numbers will be down on b12 games this year. Mark my words!
You do this then you won’t get to watch any regular espn games or any game outside espn+. Also if you live in an area where you can’t get antenna reception you can’t watch the regular local channels
Even that package for $13/mo plus another streaming package like Hulu live or YTTV for $45-50 a month is still way cheaper than the cable I was paying for up till the end.
