The United States Open Changes Its Cable Home

[Madison Hawk]

From today's Richard Sandomir column in the New York Times . . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/sports/tennis/12sandomir.html?scp=1&sq=sandomir&st=nyt

 

[Ramy]

Doesn't really matter to me who televises it.

 

[HD MM]

Oh, Tennis' US Open?! I thought you meant Golf's US Open. Well good for Tennis. ESPN might attract a younger and more vast audience than USA.

 

[goaliebob99]

Oh, Tennis' US Open?! I thought you meant Golf's US Open. Well good for Tennis. ESPN might attract a younger and more vast audience than USA.

Dont they allready attract a young and vast audience with WWE?

 

[HD MM]

Dont they allready attract a young and vast audience with WWE?

Yeah, but I'd imagine ESPN's audience and popularity is larger than USA's.

 

[BigTimMN]

only advantage i see is that ESPN HD is available on almost all cable/sat systems, where USA HD isnt quite as widely distributed.

 

[JohnneeO]

TTC's outer court coverage that is concurrent with ESPN2's main coverage is a real breakthrough. Also noteworthy is TTC's daily 3AM-10AM block of encore match coverage.