Basketball game times & TV designations announced; 5(!) games on Peacock
TV networks and game times for Michigan basketball were announced today. I hope y'all grabbed that yearlong Peacock deal because Michigan has FIVE(!) games on that streaming platform: Indiana and Minnesota at home and Purdue, MSU, and Illinois on the road. By my count that's four big games which is super annoying but I guess not all that surprising, since I'm sure NBC needs/wants those subs.
Anyway, the UMHoops link below has a nice table with all of games and their respective tip times and networks. Read the mgoblue link if you want some company line stuff.
https://umhoops.com/2023/10/03/game-times-television-designations-announced-for-2023-24-schedule/
October 3rd, 2023 at 12:37 PM ^
Glad I went for the $35 annual subscription to the cock...
October 3rd, 2023 at 12:39 PM ^
My wife would pay for “ cock “ so not happening …
October 3rd, 2023 at 1:23 PM ^
reminds me of one of the funniest Norm Macdonald jokes out there.
October 3rd, 2023 at 8:32 PM ^
Is his wife in a coma?
October 4th, 2023 at 3:40 PM ^
doctor, she's choking!
October 3rd, 2023 at 2:00 PM ^
October 3rd, 2023 at 3:17 PM ^
I can already hear the collective groan of 100,000 UM fans when they forget to cancel and the $60 yearly subscription renews.
October 3rd, 2023 at 4:32 PM ^
Just cancel it now. They don't take away what you already paid for.
October 4th, 2023 at 12:19 AM ^
Just did it!
99,999 to go.
October 3rd, 2023 at 3:34 PM ^
IDK man - 5 games? That's a LOT of 'cock
October 3rd, 2023 at 12:39 PM ^
Oh, cool, just freed up ten hours to do something else.
October 3rd, 2023 at 3:18 PM ^
We all just got #peacock'd
October 3rd, 2023 at 12:41 PM ^
Lol, Peacock.
October 3rd, 2023 at 12:49 PM ^
If a game is being played on Peacock, why does it need to start at 9 p.m.?
Can't Peacock show a game at any of the time of day, including multiple games at the same time?
October 3rd, 2023 at 12:55 PM ^
Agreed. Selfishly, I'll tolerate a Peacock game because I have it, but these 9PM games are obnoxious. They're especially annoying on a Tuesday which four of them are!
October 3rd, 2023 at 1:04 PM ^
Those games probably still would've been 9 p.m. tips on ESPN or FS1 in the old TV contract. Love it or hate it, that time is the "primetime" weekday TV slot.
October 3rd, 2023 at 1:21 PM ^
Yeah, ESPN and FS1 would have had the game at 9 because they'd be following games on TV at 7.
But on Peacock, you don't have to worry about fitting in two games on one channel.
You can still hit the prime time hours with an 8 pm tip. 8-10 is just as good as 9-11. As long as you're hitting 9-10, you're good.
October 3rd, 2023 at 1:26 PM ^
Peacock has a full slate of Tuesday 7 p.m./9 p.m. doubleheaders just like there are on ESPN (and sometimes FS1). Glancing at their lineup, seems like Peacock is getting a lot of games that used to be on ESPN.
October 3rd, 2023 at 1:41 PM ^
Well, they're the geniuses so perhaps they have super good reasons to do it this way.
But unlike on ESPN they could easily have two games on at the same time, so they are not bound to 7/9 start times like they are when airing it on the same cable network.
I'm sure the logic is something along the lines of, if we have 4 hours of programming instead of 2 or 3, we'll get a lot more numbers for selling advertising (on top of our subscription)!
October 3rd, 2023 at 1:48 PM ^
I would guess that Peacock is thinking: Why would I want to have all of the games on my network compete with each other for viewers and hurt the ratings of each when I can stagger those games and increase viewership of each. I don't love the late starts, but from a ratings and business perspective, it makes sense.
October 3rd, 2023 at 2:40 PM ^
You nailed it.
October 3rd, 2023 at 5:08 PM ^
Problem is, if I'm tuning into Peacock specifically for Michigan-Indiana, I'm probably not gonna force myself to watch say Nebraska-Rutgers, or whatever, as the lead-in game. Would rather gouge my eyes out.
October 3rd, 2023 at 1:43 PM ^
I feel like the answer to this is obvious. So they can have live content for twice as long and hope people stay with it. It's a subscription service, but it also has ads that they sell.
It probably doesn't matter to the people who only watch their own team, but a double header feels a lot more likely to draw casuals in than a one off.
October 3rd, 2023 at 12:54 PM ^
Time to eat peacock hot wings... just on principle.
October 3rd, 2023 at 1:04 PM ^
I was just about to cancel yesterday, then I checked the football schedule to see we were on the Cock this Saturday. They offered me 3 months at $2.99 to stay so there is that. Hopefully I can pull that again.
At the end of the day we are talking about $6.99. I've spent way more on things I don't need. Should end up less than the chumps who paid for the full year.
October 3rd, 2023 at 1:07 PM ^
😬
The Minnesota game is on NBC and simulcast on Peacock. AFAIK, ECU was the lone Peacock-only game.
October 3rd, 2023 at 2:42 PM ^
I currently have the 3 months at 2.99 offer and Im hoping they extend me the same offer you got to stay. If not I think Ill try cancelling and signing up with a new E-Mail for whatever deal theyre offering. I was already considering keeping Peacock for Premier League but with 5 basketball games as well its definitely worth another 9 dollars to me.
October 3rd, 2023 at 1:11 PM ^
I'm not getting peacock for basketball...
October 3rd, 2023 at 1:24 PM ^
Just when I thought I was out..
October 3rd, 2023 at 1:58 PM ^
No Peacock for me. I can do other things, especially if our basketball team becomes unwatchable like it was at times last year.
October 3rd, 2023 at 2:15 PM ^
I'm actually really interested in this team. I appreciated Dickinson but was sick of it and it wasn't going anywhere. Also, Bufkin and Howard were both great individual talents but it did not make for a cohesive team. I am looking forward to seeing Dug and Tarris as centerpieces and seeing some of the freshman develop.
October 3rd, 2023 at 4:03 PM ^
I can't believe you mentioned Bufkin and Howard in that same sentence. Bufkin had almost 1 apg more (2.9 vs 2.0), almost 2 rbpg more (4.5 vs 2.8), while scoring about the same ppg (14.0 vs 14.2), and was a much better defender.
October 3rd, 2023 at 5:30 PM ^
More than the stats, Bufkin was an elite defender, and Howard was a liability.
October 3rd, 2023 at 5:36 PM ^
I’m not convinced you are outraged as you claim. Unless you thought that Bufkin was possibly coming back, which nobody really thought after January.
Bufkin was really good, but he was on a team with Howard, and they, two lottery picks, could not make the tournament. They weren’t very good together, and neither of them were coming back, so yes they are lumped together.
October 3rd, 2023 at 6:17 PM ^
Where did I claim I was outraged? And what does returning or leaving have to do with anything?
Could Bufkin - or anyone else - guard two guys to make up for Howard's lack of defense? I don't see why he's singled out for lumping together with Howard.
October 3rd, 2023 at 6:22 PM ^
Because they were both on the team, and the teamed sucked. So now I am excited to see if the team doesn’t suck now that they, and Dickinson, are not on it.
October 3rd, 2023 at 2:00 PM ^
Who didn't see that coming? I'm surprised it's only five. My guess was it was going to be somewhere around 8 after they announced the football game.
October 3rd, 2023 at 2:04 PM ^
I just cancelled my subscription to Peacock. The service was underwhelming and 9 PM tips for Michigan Basketball aint enough to bring me back
October 3rd, 2023 at 2:13 PM ^
Why do Michigan and Iowa always play at really odd times?
October 3rd, 2023 at 2:14 PM ^
I don't know what the Athletic Department is thinking about, but it isn't the season ticket holders for Hockey and Men's basketball. There are THREE direct home conflicts:
Friday November 10 Hoops: Youngstown St 630pm Hockey: Minnesota TBD
Friday November 17 Hoops: Long Beach St 700pm Hockey: Penn St TBD
Saturday January 27 Hoops: Iowa 500pm Hockey: Wisconsin TBD
October 3rd, 2023 at 2:16 PM ^
Outside of a portion of the membership of this blog I am guessing there are not that many basketball-hockey cross-over fans.
October 3rd, 2023 at 2:16 PM ^
I don't have Peacock and we ditch YTTV during the football offseason anyway. I'll probably miss March Madness a little, but considering the $73/month we'll save by doing it and the fact that 90% of what we watch is on streaming anyway, I think I'll manage.
October 3rd, 2023 at 2:59 PM ^
Good! I'm cancelling my membership today. 2 birds....
October 3rd, 2023 at 4:14 PM ^
I wish all of Michigan's men's basketball last year had been on Peacock!
I ran into Trey Burke at the gym last week and I remembered how fun M basketball was and can be.
Dear Coach Howard, please bring the fun back!
October 3rd, 2023 at 4:17 PM ^
If you want to see Juwan Howard slap somebody, you got to pay extra for that.
October 3rd, 2023 at 8:12 PM ^
Wouldn’t mind paying extra for a little slap and tickle