Big Ten selects Fox Sports to televise football championships

[hawkfan8691]

I'd imagine they'd have a sideline reporter for both sides in this game. Probably Charissa Thompson and some other hot chick would be my guess

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Didn't even think about the BTN guys........Wayne Lerivee and Chris Martin wouldn't be be bad I could live with that. Lerivee/Martin are the 'A' team? Not sure who sideline reporter is or will be.

 

[Rawkhawk73]

This sucks on so many levels:

1. Announcer quality. Fox has the worst sports announcers of all the major networks and it's not even close. If the BTN is able to use it's top announcer team, I would probably be okay with this.

2. Picture quality. Fox has the WORST HD quality picture of all the major sports networks and it's not even close. I can't even stand to watch NFL on Fox because the sound and picture quality is terrible.

3. College Football Knowledge. Fox has no freaking clue about college football. They don't cover it at all during the season, with the exception of their regional FSN affiliates and even those guys suck. They don't know personnel, history or anything approaching good knowledge that would make for quality in-game analysis.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the point. Bottom line: this sucks!!

 

[H8IAST8]

The picture and sound quality isnt likely to change, but i will hold out on the announcers until they are chosen.

 

[hoffahawk]

Yes, I suspect they will use BTN announcers...Get C-Mart as the analyst.

+1 and I will take Gus Johnson Soundboard as the play by play guy

 

[H8IAST8]

+1 and I will take Gus Johnson Soundboard as the play by play guy

Man that soundboard gets me PUMPED for NCAA BBALL.

 

[ICHawk24]

BTN doesn't have any decent game analysts, so I won't hazard a guess there. I am guessing that the BTN studio guys (Revsine, Dinardo and Griffith) do the pre-game, halftime, and post-game stuff.

 

[hawkfan2679]

http://twitter.com/#!/TeddyGreenstein/status/5316042922397696

Reported Fox #s are HUGE. Approx $140m for six Big Ten title games. $20+m/yr nice bump from expected $13-$15m/yr.

Yowza. Some of that should be divvied up throughout the conference, right?

 

[Iowafarmgirl]

This is good news for anyone who is a fan of robots doing Tai-Chi.

 

[hawkfan340]

This is good news for anyone who is a fan of robots doing Tai-Chi.

Nice. I actually laughed at this one.

 

[hawkeyescott]

http://twitter.com/#!/TeddyGreenstein/status/5316042922397696



Yowza. Some of that should be divvied up throughout the conference, right?

Some of it? How about all of it will be.

 

[BSpringsteen]

This is good news for anyone that likes money. Teddy Greenstein of the Chicago Tribune is reporting the Big 10 is getting 20MM annually for the game.