Today’s Iowa State-Kansas game is on Fox Sports North and Midwest. It’s been a year since ISU had a football game there, but Mediacom in Des Moines had two different Fox Sports regional channels (Midwest and North/Plus), so everything should be OK, right? Wrong.
As you can see on this stylized map, Fox Sports regionals blanket the country except Chicago and some places in the Mid-Atlantic. Comcast Sports Net has many of Chicago’s pro sports…and when it comes to pro teams, eastern Iowa leans in that direction.
That means Mediacom sees it as more advantageous to carry CSN in Cedar Rapids and the Quad Cities…and since the only games with Iowa interest on FS regionals are the occasional football game and ISU women’s basketball and the Minnesota Twins… No FSN for me. No FS regionals for the sports tier, either, as far as I can tell. “Fox College Sports” is a different thing although those might carry some of the regional games.
Because TV contracts are funny things, today’s UNI-NDSU game is on two channels, KCRG 9.2 and Comcast Sports Net Chicago Plus. In fairness, it’s probably going to be a better game than the Big 12 Battle for the Basement.
(Also: Today is Iowa-Minnesota. Floyd was once a real pig. There are Joni Ernst jokes waiting to be made here.)
UPDATE: Game is being carried on KFXA – so not only is it on, it’s on broadcast TV.