UL pursuing new TV deal with CST

[moorecajun]

CST would have to put a clause in the contract allowing ESPN to rebroadcast. When we had Cox4 broadcasting, they did but that may be a different situation than CST

And that is what I read ... ESPN3 already has broadcasting rights to all S-BC games. If UL signs an agreement with CST, ESPN3 would still get the feed at no cost to them.

[CajunRage]

And that is what I read ... ESPN3 already has broadcasting rights to all S-BC games. If UL signs an agreement with CST, ESPN3 would still get the feed at no cost to them.

Wouldn't that require a blackout of ESPN3 in the area? That would hurt LUS customers (no HD) and DirectTV (I don't think they have CST).

[Boomer]

Now we are asking the right questions....This is GREAT for our brand. Especially if this is targeted for a possible move to CUSA

-----I would hope that we get into the aad game with Tabasco---Like "the Cajun treat for the whole World"---not bad with a win/win for UL and Tabasco!!!

[moorecajun]

Wouldn't that require a blackout of ESPN3 in the area? That would hurt LUS customers (no HD) and DirectTV (I don't think they have CST).

Yes, you are right ... but that is even more reason for them to attend the games, right?

[Hammer58]

-I would hope that we get into the aad game with Tabasco---Like "the Cajun treat for the whole World"---not bad with a win/win for UL and Tabasco!!!

Boomer, not trying to start a ____ing contest but you constantly post stuff about UL and Tobasco. After all this time it hasn't happened. Maybe you should be asking your contacts in the admin about this and why such an obvious marketing partnership hasn't happened. Either they haven't tried. Or they have tried and Tobasco isn't interested.

[CajunAmos]

Why would Scott Farmer have said they're negotiating "football... everything" with this deal, when there's already a deal in place?

I bet Scott Farmer expects to be somehwere our football games aren't all broadcast in the near future - another conference - and he wants the TV deal to show the exposure he's adding to the conference.

I think there's more here than meets the eye.

Every football game was broadcast this year. Why are we negotiating for something we already have?

Because we think we're headed somewhere we won't have this.

The existing contract is a conference one, not a school one. It does leave an individual school to have their own network agreement but any agreement must allow ESPN to pick up the broadcast at no cost to them, even if they had no plans to broadcast the game. It's a pretty sweet deal for them as well since they don't pick up a vast majority of the sports other than football.

[CajunDreDog]

Our game this year at new Mexico st was a prefect example of this. NMST produced the game, used their own announcers, graphics, etc but shared with ESPN3.

[jllanclos]

Our game this year at new Mexico st was a prefect example of this. NMST produced the game, used their own announcers, graphics, etc but shared with ESPN3.

... and they called us Louisiana.

[RedCajun]

Wouldn't that require a blackout of ESPN3 in the area? That would hurt LUS customers (no HD) and DirectTV (I don't think they have CST).

Hopefully the production quality (non-hd feed) is better than what RCN had previously

[CajunDreDog]

... and they called us Louisiana.

And our players by all kinds of wrong names... but everyone gets the point.