Big 12 Adds Peacock Mens Hoops Package

Basketball
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Peacock is really great, but I say that as a woman who likes Bravo shows.

We have:
AppleTV
Disney+ / ESPN+ / Hulu (free with my phone plan)
Netflix (free with my husband’s phone plan)
HBOMax
Peacock
Prime

I used to have Fubo, but it got crazy expensive. I need to figure out what streaming service is best for sports for football season. Any thoughts? I need to figure this out quickly.

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YoutubeTV or DirectTv.

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Yea, but I remember much of those games being on ESPN+ vs. strictly a tv deal with all games on broadcast.

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That’s how I remember it.

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If you look at our contract, we were one of the biggest brands in the AAC so they aired a bunch of our games

Up until the last year or so…all of our football games were on cable TV channels.

That’s not the case in the Big 12…even conference games, even in-state rivalry conference games, are sent to streaming apps

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I went back to DirecTV when Fubo priced themselves higher and I got tired of trying to chase down TNT/TBS games on Max, which is kind of a weird set-up for sports. I don’t think you’ll save much money, though.

It really is kind of a beatdown to try to find games on whatever different platform they’re on for a given game.

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Peacock $2.99 per month for a year for teachers

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ESPNU and CBSSN cost extra back in the day.

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It has to do with being a good team that wins.

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Football number of games on ESPN+

2024: 3
2023: 3
2022: 3
2021: 2

Hasn’t really gone up. Biggest difference between the AAC and B12 is we have games on FS1 now instead of ESPNU. Looked up Rice’s schedule last year. They played 8 games on ESPN+. So I think if wed stayed in the American it’d be even worse. Its just direction the sport is going.

Basketball # of EPSN+ games
2024-25: 13
2023-24: 12
2022-23: 13
2021-22: 11

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TLDR. Peacock usually has a legit deal for Black Friday. In the past it’s been their ad plan 19.99 for a whole year.

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From Heartland College Sports, just one opinion though. The peacock games are way down the pecking order if you read the whole article.

“My guess is Fox will sub-license the games it considers least desirable. In other words, viewers are unlikely to see Houston or Kansas on Peacock — unless NBC wants to flex it onto its linear channel.”

We were on ESPN+ way too much last year for the number consistently by our name. This is Yormark fixing that.

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Although the games on NBC Peacock will not be premier Big 12 games, Yormark is getting more money for them. Otherwise, those games would be on ESPN+ with no added monetary value.

That and getting in bed with more networks, bolds well for the next contract.

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I think I will go back to listening to Mike Edmonds and Art Casper on the radio lol

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Mike E. was a good 'un. His radio calls were my first memories of Cougar football.

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First Sunday of NFL has worked for me with the CBS app, Fox Sports app and Peacock. It’s fine on our Roku TVs, but the Fox Sports app isn’t available on the big LG TV we have, I think it’s too old.

Very happy to not be paying for Fubo anymore.

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Anyone remember Art Casper and Carl Mann on the UH Basketball radio calls? Carl predates Mike Edmonds.

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The names ring a bell, but that’s it. What years were they doing it?

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Early to mid 1970s.

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I do. The Elvin Hayes and Don Chaney days.

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