FYI - We're now on FS1 for the TCU Game! (Moved to FS1)
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The way I understood it, baseball had to be on FS1 due to contract obligations that it must be on a cable channel to make it more fair for other games to be on TBS which is also a cable channel.
So it was TCU vs ISU or the Mountain West game to be on FOX or FS2. Fox decided they wanted the Mountain West game on FOX and ISU vs TCU on FS2. To me, that seems as if we were bumped to FS2 for a Mountain West game.
I’m assuming you will need to login with your cable/satellite credentials and would only get it if your subscription includes FS2.
we just weren’t selected for Fox. Saying “bumped” implies that we already had Fox locked up, in my opinion.
Either way we’re on FS2 and more people get that channel than ESPNU.
I saw somewhere that Fox is contractually obligated to have a Mountain West game on Fox during the year. Since this involves a ranked team, it makes sense. They did a 6-day window just in case Fresno State wasn't ranked coming into this game, but as long as Fresno State was ranked, they were going with that game on Fox.
This is, more or less, correct. FOX can't move baseball off FS1 because of MLBs agreement with TBS.
FOX gave the Mountain West 3 games per year on Big FOX thinking that they'd get 3 Boise games every year when they were good and now they kind of have to scramble to full that obligation now that Boise has fallen off. Just bad luck for Iowa State that the best MW game of the year is in the same window.
However, like said above, FS2 is in more homes than ESPNU and only about 4M less homes than ESPN2. Plus, with the new basketball contract there are going to be lots of Big 12 and Big East basketball games on FS2 so might as well get used to having it in the rotation.
I’ve been a YTTV guy for about 4 years now but before that I had Mediacom and actually had no issues with them
If you lose to a MAC team + a blowout to OU, start season 2-3, following a 4-8 season, we can't expect primary placement.
I thought I was one of the last people in Iowa that had Mediacom when I finally switched..
I miss everything about my mediacom except the price.
That's a nice way of saying "we think this game will suck so go to the back channel
I have Spectrum cable which had a dust up with Disney the first two weeks of the season where none of the ESPN channels were available.
So I bought YTTV just in time for them to find a compromise and get ESPN and ESPN2 back up.
I was thinking I was paying that monthly fee just for ESPNU but not any more!
So I bought YTTV just in time for them to find a compromise and get ESPN and ESPN2 back up.
I was thinking I was paying that monthly fee just for ESPNU but not any more!
My parents still do and if my mom has anything to do with it probably always will. She loves Cyclones.TV and all the damn replays.
My least favorite part of CyTV is the replays of losses including basketball.
Like, why?
Hey, don't be hating on darts... There could be more excitement watching that than watching our game.
