The Big Ten Conference faces a major problem ahead of the 2024 college football season. The Big Ten Network is widely available, but will West Coast fans get to watch the games? It doesn’t sound like it, at least for now.
Awful Announcing wrote on Tuesday that Comcast Xfinity subscribers on the West Coast are subject to blackouts on Big Ten Network for Oregon, Washington, USC, and UCLA games this season. This is a frustrating situation amid these circumstances, as we’re just days away from the season commencing.
“There, Comcast subscribers in those schools’ areas who get the Big Ten Network are being blocked from watching games with those schools (and only those schools),” Awful Announcing’s Andrew Bucholtz wrote. “That’s reportedly over Comcast declining to pay higher in-market rates after those schools’ conference realignment moves. But those subscribers can still watch other, non-local schools on BTN.”
AA explained that this is happening entirely because Comcast declined to pay a higher rate after the realignment news. Considering the Big Ten is wrapped up with NBC and Peacock, the strangeness of it makes for a highly frustrating situation ahead of college football’s kickoff to the 2024 season.
And still, several were left frustrated over the situation and voiced those frustrations. We’ll see if the Big Ten and Comcast can come to terms on something before the season begins.
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Everybody who saw this coming, raise your hand.
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This is just wonderful, huh?
Hey, let’s create a West Coast wing of our super conference … and then not be able to show them their own games because of our dispute with a cable operator! https://t.co/WXdxv7cRp3
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