September 9, 2006
BYU Football Removed from BYU Television Schedule
Written by: John
The BYUTV 2006 BYU Football Broadcast schedule just recently announced the following:
Due to a change in broadcast rights, BYU Television will be unable to bring you highlights from the Tulsa vs. BYU football game played September 9th. Please enjoy this encore presentation of the BYU vs. SMU 1980 Holiday Bowl
This is crazy. I went all day avoiding any sort of scores or reports of BYU so that I could enjoy the rebroadcast. Now we’re screwed out of that. I can’t believe that BYU TV didn’t know until hours before the game was suppose to air that they didn’t have rights to the game.
Some theories are going around that it means that the MWC finally signed a deal with the satellite providers, but that is a joke to me. Why would a satellite provider care about BYUTV rebroadcasting a game that they didn’t show on their system and won’t in the future.
This is incredibly frustrating. Of course I’ve already seen the score now. I’m glad BYU won, but I want to see them play. I’m still looking for a download or streamed version of the game. If anyone who taped it can get it to me I would really appreciate it.
Post your comments and I’ll send them on to BYU Athletics, the Mountain West Conference, the mtn., BYUTV and whoever else I can find to send it to.
UPDATE: KBYU covered it and we’re working on getting an upload from someone who recorded it. Here are some highlights of the game in the meantime. Tonga just ran over someone to get in the end zone. That was nice.
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How many western markets were blocked from seeing the BYU-Tulsa game due to last minute contractual failures? Craig Thompson has failed this season to gain satisfactory exposure for MWC football. I am incredulous that he could have signed such a half-baked deal with CSTV.
I don’t think it’s just western markets that were blocked. While a large percentage of BYU alum are in the West, there are a lot of east coast fan base that should be just as upset.
Time will tell if this was a good idea, but this season is a huge failure for the MWC and Craig Thompson.
This truly is a waste of a season. CSTV what a joke. I have access to C and KU & FTA (free to air) band satellite feeds but havent even been able to watch any games until the TCU game on Versus.
This is the first year that I’ve not been able to view any BYU games. I feel like I’ve went back in time to the 1920′s to the days of radio because that’s how I’ve stayed up with them nothing against radio but I want more.
With the technology we have today this is simply ludicrous. We need to let the WMC & CSTV How upset we the fan base are. innundate them with complaints. Maybe they’ll at least go back to ESPN. Better than what we have now It would be nice to have a mountain west TV network that would carry them like 14 or 24 out of Salt lake theyed probably be ecstatic to carry them.
Thanks Steve