Report: Disney Quietly Considering Getting Rid of ESPN If this is true, combined with the SEC move, how much longer will it be around?
Gosh, where else will I get to see my favorite Longhorn Films and Commencement ceremonies? It's usefulness has run out. I enjoy pressers, that's about it. Gameday is terrible. Horrible crew, except Galindo.
I loved it, too, for volleyball and other sports I was becoming interested in watching before they all went West Mall on us.
It had some nice conceptual stuff before the launch (particularly showcasing HS games), and its coverage of the third tier televised games was actually quite good. Can't be beat for volleyball and baseball. Even soccer. But Nebraska's and A&M's pity party over the "unfair" advantage of "having TV" really soured the channel before it got off the ground. One of the PA's told me they had to literally scrap the programming lineup for everything except Mack's show and All-Access (the latter of which TH severely limited) just weeks before launch. There was supposed to be a weekly Craig Way show over the HS leaderboards and the NCAA nixed it. Which is effing ridiculous because he does the same exact show on FSSW (now Bally). There was also a reality-style show that would follow players around... also scrapped after filming had already started. Augie's food show was actually a spur-of-the-moment add. The dumb thing about all of this is that no one who is being recruited to play college sports at Texas watches TV. The network started right when streaming started to overtake normal TV, but young people were already way past that. Anyone with teenagers understands that kids don't just "turn on channels" any longer. Regarding the article, I don't think ESPN will hurt for a new "business daddy" if Disney goes through with the dump. But they'd definitely get rid of LHN.
This is why people who have countered my criticism of some of the non-sports programming as a great recruiting tool of what the university is about are wrong. I agree with you here, no recruits give a crap about that stuff.
I think we all know LHN is closing down the day UT joins the SEC. I'd much prefer rebranding it the SEC West Network so our pals in College Station would have to see their coverage generated out of Austin, TX.
Because you like it? I ask the same thing about NASCAR and don't expect a response that'll line up with how I feel about it.
So where do we go to see 8 reruns of the tennis match, swim meet, or soccer game? ABC? NBC? ESPN? CBS? PBS? Oxygen?
Yeah, they're starting to strip it for parts. I think the former players are all kind of "auditioning" and putting together tapes so that they can go to Bally, NBC Sports, Comcast Sports Net, etc.
As long as the checks/wire transfers keep coming in don't worry about the programming. Who knows how much longer we will get to see baseball and the Texas Relays on something other than a $EC stream hosted by a 4th year R-TV Intern.
No, Lowell is just getting some outside work in addition to LHN. Much like many of the other on-air talent that has been with LHN at one time or another.
Okay. Seems odd that would happen now. Has it happened in previous years. They did a big birthday thing for him recently on Texas Gameday and he sounded like Jimbo going on and on about how great LHN is.
I turned on a Thursday night game...can't even remember who the team were. It surprised me that it was Lowell's voice. I haven't heard him on Saturday yet...
I have enjoyed the women's sports and baseball. Will any of that be available when we switch. If you have not been watching the volleyball team you should start.
I haven't seen the LHN mentioned as to its definite fate when we are officially part of the SEC, but I expect it come to an end, which is too bad since it carries so much content from our other sports programs. There is also an SEC Network or was at one time.
The beauty of the SEC Network is that they can split up all of the third tier rights and spread it out over a bunch of SEC Network iterations at any given moment. Three football games against nonconference opponents all at 7 pm? Done. Six baseball games at once? Done. Two women's soccer and four volleyball games? Done. The fogies need to learn how to use the ESPN app to make it work, but that shouldn't be a problem for anyone with a TV newer than 15 years old.
If the $EC goes to pods the LHN "team" will become the $EC Pod "team". The bright lights in Austin had better not let E$PN escape one dollar that they owe to Texas.
My guess is the SEC Alternate will morph into the SEC West and the current SEC channel will be SEC East. The LHN is going the way of the dodo bird.
This is very true and add the fact we were at the beginning of our 11 year run of mediocrity in football and then basketball started to become pretty uninteresting, there is not much of a reason for many younger people to tune in.
I think so. Maybe not by ESPN, but by UT. Used properly it would have given us exposure no other teams have.