Barking Carnival

...or at least restrict those who aren't paying them for the privilege. The Southeastern Conference announced new rules that would restrict media outlets in terms of use of video, audio, photographs and digital descriptions of any and all SEC events, from games to practices and press conferences. After hearing from just about every media outlet outside of their TV partners ESPN and CBS, the SEC has indicated that maybe they were a little quick

the ACC, Big 10, Big East and the Pac 10. Heading into the 2009 football season, the Southeastern Conference is begining a 15-year deal with ESPN and CBS that makes the conference "A First Among Equals" in the BCS. While the numbers are staggering in terms of money flowing to SEC schools, the ramifactions of the contracts reach beyond the bottom line. But first and foremost, it is the money that catches your attention. REVENUE "Timing Is

...and the ACC, Big 10, the Big East and the Pac 10 with their new TV contract. ESPN Regional Television, the new over-the-air syndication home for some Southeastern Conference programming , announced a regionally syndicated college sports package that will air in more than 73 television markets including Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston and San Antonio. The regional package will be branded as the SEC network, and it will broadcast 13 SEC football games across the

The final game of the best 2-of-3 series for the College World Series Championship may not have been close, but the buildup was good enough to give ESPN three of the four highest-rated CWS games ever. The three-game series for the National Championship grew in numbers with each game, until it averaged just under 2.8 million viewers. That was 26% more viewers than last year's Georgia-Fresno State series.

The NFL Network settled its fight with Comcast Cable today, giving the channel a huge boost in potential viewers. Comcast, the nation's largest cable outlet, started the fight in 2006 when it moved the NFL Network off its basic digital tier to the more expensive sports tier. The NFL Network wanted to boost is price from 15 cents per subscriber to 70 cents. Comcast didn't think the 8 live games that the NFL Network would

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