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Detroit ABC affiliate WXYZ-Channal 7 will look to broadcast another Conference in an attempt to recoup revenue now that the Big Ten is moving its non-national football games this fall to its own satellite channel.
Last season, WXYZ bought 11 games, including six with either the University of Michigan or Michigan State University, to broadcast over the air in addition to the network games, said Marla Drutz, the station's programming director.
With the advent of the Chicago-based Big Ten Network, those games no longer will be available for over-the-air broadcast. The 24-hour network starts in August on DirecTV and initially will carry at least 35 football games not picked up by ABC or ESPN.
ABC and ESPN have first rights to Big Ten games, so the contests on the new network are expected to be the less-marquee match-ups - the games that had been broadcast locally by Channel...