As recently as the weekend, Mark Silverman, president of the network, had expressed pessimism that he could reach agreement with Time Warner.
As a proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison this year, I am very happy that people like me in Milwaukee will now get the Big Ten Network on Time Warner Cable.
Time Warner Cable and the Big Ten Network, a year-old network featuring Big Ten sports, announced Monday that they had reached an agreement-in-principle on a carriage agreement for high definition and video-on-demand programming.
And it's about time, too. Now I don't have to cram myself into a restaurant with only one TV placed at a terrible location where nobody can see the game because of the glare, and I'll actually be able to hear the analysis. Woohoo!
After a whole season of holding out Time Warner Cable finally reach an agreement to add the Big 10 Network to its programming. This will make many Buckeye football fans happy, especially this one.
Sources familiar with negotiations said that the Big Ten Network and Time Warner Cable have reached an agreement in principle for carriage of the year-old cable network that is home to the conference's athletic teams.
Fresh on the heels of the outlandish pay-per-view proposal they made to UW Athletics over the weekend, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Don Walker is reporting tonight that Time Warner Cable has indeed reached a deal with Big Ten Network.
Ohio State hosts Youngstown State and Ohio University in its first two football games, with the 2008 season opener scheduled for noon Saturday.
The Big Ten Network and Time Warner Cable have reached a distribution agreement. Last week talks heated up as both sides engaged in a back and forth posturing/propoganda battle.
