re: ESPN to carry every regional game this year

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The frick? That's why they would be able to see the games on CST. ESPN won't show you an LSU game in other states like CST would.

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CST reaches Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and parts of Texas I believe, but during regionals that LSU is in (prime example would be in the UCLA regional in 2010), I'm fairly certain only the Louisiana market got it for LSU and then they peddled their productions to local channels in California since nobody there planned on televising it. States like Arkansas, Ole Miss, Alabama, etc. didn't get those games even though they had CST. Basically, Cox sports is a lesser version of the Fox Sports Network channels that are regionally based and form the programming lineup accordingly.

With this ESPN deal, they will have a camera/broadcast crew at all 16 sites with their lineup of channels showing games regionally in addition to every game being available on ESPN3. Every out of market fan will have access to LSU's game, not just those in the southeast.