Michigan Football at Utah: 8:30 on FS1
8:30pm kickoff on Fox Sports 1.
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/060115aaa.html
FS1 is pretty standard out West. It's still a relatively new network but has been telecasting Pac-12 sports for a while basically as Fox's "ESPN-2" and was created by picking off existing ESPN/FOX talent.
I think it has as much to do with TCU vs Utah in terms of the networks and given the limitations of how many games/conference each gets, it's just the way it worked out.
Had Michigan football not been mired in mediocrity six of the last seven years, we'd be in the limelight. Harbaugh has a lot of work to do to undo the damage. I have the utmost faith he will get the job done.
The Pac-12 has a TV contract that gives the Fox networks first dibs.
Has nothing to do with any of that.
Fox Sports 1 is a national network that was launched to compete with ESPN. It's not like they're putting it on regional television or something.
Are you kidding me, WD? You are comparing ESPN's viewership with Fox Sports 1?
Google is your friend....look up viewership stats that compare the two networks, then come back and make the case that Michigan is getting the same number of looks as they would if they were broadcast on ESPN.
The whole point of that post is that it's at a Pac-12 school. The Pac-12 has a TV deal with FOX.
as ESPN2, ESPNU... for me, so it's not as if a casual sports fan doesn't get the channel (now, they may not watch it...)
Regardless of network, that will happen. FS1 has the benefit of advertising on the Fox Sports Net stations and on Fox. So when you're watching preseason-NFL on Fox, you will see this game repeatedly. Same goes for the baseball game of the week. So it's not as if this game will be played and no one will know about it.
They will get the eyes turned onto their station, even if it's only for three hours.
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JC!!! Fox sports 1?!?!? I do not get that stupid channel with my current programming. Which means I will either have to change my programming (higher monthly bill) or make arrangements to leave the comforts of my living room for a late night out. F this!!! Just put the damn game on espn/abc or on btn.
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My Dish package is no longer available. So if I change it I can not go back to my old programing and its a cheap package that has most of the channels I would want without a bunch of garbage channels. Thanks for the suggestion though I may explore that option further.
Dan Murphy, of ESPN, said on Twitter that FS1 had first dibs. I don't know how to embed links but here is a copy and paste version:
"It's at Utah, so Fox gets first dibs because of contract with Pac 12. I'm sure every network wanted (Michigan vs Utah)."
This was in regards to a question about why it was not on ESPN.
I am pumped. It's going to be awesome hearing Gus Johnson call a Michigan game!
Tim Brando is their lead college football play by play. Analysts are either Brady Quinn, Joel Klatt or Joey Harrington.
Sounds good to me.
Now I'm sad :(
We didn't have BTN when it debuted with App State at MICHIGAN and had to find a bar. It sucked, but that was more a deal with COMCAST being dicks and not coming to terms with the BTN until the next year..
Maybe other carriers will pick up FS1 between now and September. I can see being pissed about that situation. I was just confused by some replies that seemed to indicate FS1 carrying the game was some qualitative commentary on MICHIGAN FOOTBALL.
FS1 nabbing the game says precisely the opposite ...perhaps there will be ads run this summer along the lines of, "Don't get FS1 on your cable? Call your local provider and tell them you want FS1 Now!"
They've done that kind of shit before.
Ugh, I remember when they did that in 2006 and put the Ball State game on ESPNU which no one had at the time except sports bars.
Had to listen to it on the radio.
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quick flight for me. But holy crap the tickets are pricey.
Agreed. I keep checking every now and again on the main ticket sites. I'm sure it's a popular ticket but I'd bet prices come down as the game gets closer. I was also going to see if any Utah Alumni I know have any ideas
I do know a handful of Utah alum. I doubt they give'em up but its worth a shot.
It's a long shot, but the game is on the TH before Labor Day weekend, so you never know ...selling your MICHIGAN tickets just might pay for the entire season and then some, and still be cheaper than the "$1011" I saw on-line for 40yd line.
Really?? Over $1000 for a Utah regular season game? If that guy gets his price, give him credit.
Is it really that big a deal to go out for the night to watch the game? Jesus, you'd think someone killed your first born child with all the crying about this.
Get off your couch, take a shower and go out to a BW3 or something.
What person who calls themselves a sports fan, and a college football fan, doesn't have Fox Sports 1? That's included on most basic cable packages. If you have the ESPNs, you have Fox Sports 1.
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For DISH, it's only in the "America's Everything" package...the top tier package.
I've watched via BTN and WatchESPN for the past couple years via streaming. I don't have Fox Sports 1 unless it is online somehow. And I consider myself a fan of the sports.
that the crying is a bit much on here, but saying "go to the bar" doesn't always work... say if you have a small child at home that you can't just leave alone because ya know its illegal (and wrong and dangerous, etc etc).
to be on FS1, especially on a Thursday night, at least for the Michigan Traditionalists.
I have the following in my basement:
1) 120" of glorious high definition.
2) A bar well-stocked at the cost of about 7 cents on the dollar of what I'd pay in a bar or restaurant
3) No annoying, drunk jackasses except me.
So to answer your question: yes, it's a big deal.
Also, I have all the sports channels. Literally.
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It's not FSN1 or ESPN doing anything, we just shouldn't play on Thursday. Like ever.
you have all that but not Fox Sports One in your cable package?
to wash my hair that night. Guess it'll have to wait until Sunday.
I wonder what cable channel package I'll have to pay for to make sure I catch every game.
As someone who remembers when Pac-10 games were found on weird cable channels and local Fox Sports affiliates late at night, looking like they were broadcasts beamed in from the moon then put through a scrambling filter, this is going to be great.
Agreed. When we got the BTN the package included all these regional Fox networks with crappy, analog signals but you would get M Hockey on FS ..Pac-10 games coming on late at night with Cal at Wash State, or whatever.
FS1 is a regular Fox Sports network only without the Today Show-like content found on ESPNsucks these days. On FS1, they do the things ESPN used to in terms of programming and FS1 is a far better produced product than BTN is today.
And wasn't it Dave Brandon who inked this game when the BigTen and Pac-12 agreed to increase the number of games between conferences in response to the All-SEC Lovefest ESPN and the media was having?
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