Tv Deal

[gabe]

Lets see, there is 100,000 people in the Bismarck-Mandan area. Midco is the cable provider for that area. Some of you are clueless! Midco > Cable one, and its not even close!

Yeah but NBC statewide is available to every cable and satellite provider in North Dakota and western Minnesota. Plus rabbit ears. And thata assuming everyone in Bismarck has Midco. They dont. Dish and Directv own a large market shares
But I do agree Cable one blows and the biggest benefit Midco offers is our ESPN3 games are actually seen

[gabe]

Of course Midco is better than CableOne, everyone knows that. If CableOne wasn't a monopoly and had to compete with other companies, it would be out of business a long time ago.

The issue is the number of people who get that channel. You crow about 110,000 people in Bis-Man, when the Twin Cities metro area has the largest number of alumni from all the Dakota 4 schools than any other city, there's 3.3 million people in the metro, and NOBODY there gets Midco. Much less the rest of the state of Minnesota, except for a few towns in the NW.

If Midco SportsNet was available on DirecTV's Sports Pack nationwide, the entire argument would become moot.

Minneapolis is why we need FNN North. Tons of alumni and a huge population base. Plus every cable provider has FSNNorth

[NDSUstudent]

NBC ND>Midco and it isn't even close.

UND just went from a decent TV deal to a steaming pile of crap. That said UND's conferences have much better TV deals than the conferences that we are currently in so I guess they have that going for them.

[semobison]

I love Midco! In the past year I have watched the 2011 Summit league track and field championships, tons of Summit league basketball, baseball and softball, caught a couple of Red Hawks games, and a lot of North Dakota High School football and basketball games. For my interest anyway, great sports coverage!

[rustywallace]

Read the news release and it looks like FSN on direct tv will stream whatever they are allowed too.

[NorthernBison]

It's a decent deal. Midco is in 200 communities. It remains to be seen if we can get any sort of comprehensive deal worked out. Football is one thing. Our men's basketball program is invisible. One fricken game on statewide last season and that was only because it was against UND. Not acceptable.

[NDSUstudent]

It's a decent deal. Midco is in 200 communities. It remains to be seen if we can get any sort of comprehensive deal worked out. Football is one thing. Our men's basketball program is invisible. One fricken game on statewide last season and that was only because it was against UND. Not acceptable.

Our basketball team had multiple games on Midco(four home games, plus a few away games) one home game was also on Fox Sports North. It is pretty similar to what UND is getting with their new contract.

[NorthernBison]

Our basketball team had multiple games on Midco(four home games, plus a few away games) one home game was also on Fox Sports North. It is pretty similar to what UND is getting with their new contract.

Shows how much I know. I have Directv. Bison basketball doesn't exist in my world. Maybe Midco isn't such a decent deal after all.

[NDSUstudent]

Shows how much I know. I have Directv. Bison basketball doesn't exist in my world. Maybe Midco isn't such a decent deal after all.

I"m in the same boat, that said the Big Sky has a deal with Root Sports so if you have the sports pack you can get up 18 football and 12 basketball games in HD, obviously those games are split up among all the schools but still it absolutely destroys the Summit's non-existent TV contract and the MVFC's ESPN3 only TV deal.

[TheBisonator]

Shows how much I know. I have Directv. Bison basketball doesn't exist in my world. Maybe Midco isn't such a decent deal after all.

I have DirecTV as well, and Midco SN is irrelevant to me. I have to rely on GoBison.com webcasts for my Bison basketball.

I really wonder what it would take to convince DirecTV to put Midco SN on the Sports Pack. I'm sure it wouldn't cost DirecTV much to put it there, they already have almost every single regional cable sports network in the US between channels 600-699.

I heard there's close to 35 million households in the US with DirecTV. And another advantage with it is that it's satellite, not a regional cable company that's tied into the location where you live, which means it's nationwide. You can subscribe to DirecTV in Bellingham, WA, Key West, FL, Embarrass, MN, Needles, CA, and everywhere else.