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Sunday, October 30, 2011


A whore is someone who will do anything for money, whether that be $20 on a dumpster for $300 million from ESPN. Enter the Longhorn Network.
ESPN remains stymied in its efforts to line up new subscribers for its Longhorn Network, so only a handful of San Antonio-area viewers will be able to watch today's broadcast of the Texas-Kansas game from Austin.

Grande Communications, which has about 16,000 subscribers in the area, remains the only regional cable company of note carrying the Longhorn Network, the 20-year, $300 million partnership between ESPN and the University of Texas that launched in August.

Today's game will be the second UT football game to air on LHN. And, as was the case with the season opener against Rice, the game will be available only to about four million subscribers nationwide and a small percentage in the area.
The Longhorns, who receive over $143 Million a year for its atheletic budget, the largest in the country, decided $300 million for the Longhorn Network was worth more than 100 years of in-state football tradition, playing interesting games, and the Big 12 itself. Way to go, Longhorns. Screwing your alumni and fans that want to watch your games out of the cable fees would be one thing, but your network is so obscure that NO ONE is carrying it, which means Longhorn fans can't even watch your stupid games even if they want to pay for your silly network. Way to go, whores.



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