[Earl Bonovich]

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports/1161160906289790.xml&coll=2

Ohio State-Indiana TV availability
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Ohio State's home game with Indiana at noon Saturday will be shown on ESPNU, a cable channel with limited reach in Northeast Ohio. ONN will show the game on tape delay at 11 p.m. Saturday and 8 p.m. on Sunday.

Information on the ESPNU Web site reports that these Northeast Ohio TV cable providers do not offer ESPNU:

Comcast;

Cox;

Time Warner;

Wide Open West.

ESPNU is channel 125 for some customers who have Time Warner cable service that formerly was Adelphia.

On DirecTV, ESPNU is available on channel 609 through the service's "Sports Pack," which is an extra $12 a month (or less if you order other premium packages). ESPNU is included in DirecTV's Total Choice Premier, the $99.99-a-month package.

On Dish Network, ESPNU is part of "America's Top 180," which is a $49.99 package, and is available on the HD packages starting at $69.99 a month.

For more information, call your cable provider.

 

[JohnH]

On DiSH Network it is Channel 148.

AT180, HD Gold or higher required to access it.

 

[shaun-ohio]

yeah good ole time warner they took this channel off when they took over adelphia and even took the nfl network off, thats why i went to directv, time warner in my hometown of newark has not added no new channels and only have NBC and CBS in high def no tnt hd, they have the 4 movie channels in high def, 70 channels of analog channels, there dvr sucks takes up to much space to even record any high def stuff

 

[PetSounds66]

God forbid public institutions should ever put a game on free TV. I remember when OSU carried all of the local games and they actually had their broadcast majors or WOSU-TV employees doing all of the work.

As a broadcast major at another Columbus school I thought that was a great idea, but money talks.

 

[aaronc]

Just ordered Dish HD Platinum & dropping TWC. Install Saturday, hope to catch 2nd half.

 

[Earl Bonovich]

God forbid public institutions should ever put a game on free TV. I remember when OSU carried all of the local games and they actually had their broadcast majors or WOSU-TV employees doing all of the work.

As a broadcast major at another Columbus school I thought that was a great idea, but money talks.

I doubt it was Ohio State's choice (or Indiana's for that matter).

It was probably ESPN/ABC that made the choice, basically seeing it as a low raiting game as it is "should" be an onslaught....

(Note: even though on paper it should be a slaughter... ask the Bears and Cardinals)

 

[mrhdtv]

It's just a tool for ABC/ESPN to try to get ESPNU into more cable systems.

Simple.

 

[tonyd79]

It's just a tool for ABC/ESPN to try to get ESPNU into more cable systems.

Simple.

Yeah, cause every Ohio State game has to be on one of the main ESPNs or OTA. Riiight.

The Big Ten has a game on ESPNU every week. There are only so many channels.

Next year, this game would probably be on the Big Ten network.