Direct TV – Will pick up the Mtn.
As an avid BYU sports fan this is music to my ears. The Mountain West Conference created an interesting TV deal a few years ago with a new channel, the .MTN, where virtually every major sporting event from the participating schools: BYU, UTAH, TCU, Wyoming, Colorado State, New Mexico, Air Force, UNLV, and San Diego State would air. It also presented a platform for many of the less popular, and womens sports to get television coverage. Great idea right?The only problem was that this channel had no exposure. One of the half owners was Comcast Cable, and they apparently wanted to backlash some of the huge damages done to them by the Satellite Companies over the years. Sure Comcast is the largest Cable Company in the US, but its coverage can only be obtained in areas where comcast provides service. Comcast was sluggish in working out a deal with the satellite providers, and this made many of the sports fans furious.After two seasons, Direct TV finally announced that they have made arrangements with the .mtn to add the channel to one of their lineups beginning at the 2008 football season.
