The BTN is full of sh*t.
The big cost is in televising the game, period. They already have camera crews, announcers, etc at the game, so the additional cost to take that feed and beam it up to a satellite is practically zero.
Not only that, Monday's game could have been aired on the primary channel, there were no other games on 610 (BTN on Directv) at the time. Still they made us watch it on their crappy web site.
I'm not sure what the REAL reason they're not televising the games is, maybe to push advertising dollars to the web site sponsors, maybe some weird contractual language put in by the schools to force more people to go to the games, or maybe to get more people watching the replays. But it ain't the horse manure reason they're spewing.
God I hate the BTN.
/end of rant