Big 12’s television partners said no to BYU

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"The Tribune has learned that the television partners had concerns with BYU’s no-play-on-Sunday policy and how it might impact television plans as they related to televising non-football sports on Sundays — particularly the Big 12 conference basketball tournament championship game. That game has not been played on Sunday since 2008, but the television partners wanted to retain the Sunday option.

Additionally, BYU — which left the Mountain West Conference for more national television exposure as a football independent — apparently wanted assurances from the Big 12 that it would appear on national television a minimum, unspecified, number of times per season. The Cougars also were said to want permission to show their football games not picked up by Big 12 television partners on their own television network, BYUtv, which is available in more than 60 million homes nationwide.

Making the equal-access promise, as well as the provisions for BYUtv, was problematic for the television partners."

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/cougars/52 ... l.html.csp

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No doubt the UT vetoed BYU when UT learned the BYU folks were just as greedy as the UT folks.

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BYU Cougars may have said, "NO!" However, Kim Cattrall said, "AH OOH," to the Big 12.