Texas reaches 20-year, $300M ESPN deal

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<p>"However, the agreement does not include access to the Longhorn Network, ESPN’s much-ballyhooed 20-year, $300 million partnership with the University of Texas, which launched in August but has failed to gain carriage on the nation’s largest cable or satellite systems.</p>

<p>“We were not able to include Longhorn Network in this agreement, but we continue to have productive conversations with Comcast and other distributors,” an ESPN spokeswoman said.</p>

<p>“We have no plans to carry (Longhorn Network) at this time,” added a Comcast spokesman."</p>

<p>Source: [More</a> Disney, ESPN content coming to Comcast — but not Longhorn Network | Four DVRs, no waiting | a Chron.com blog](<a href=“http://blog.chron.com/sportsmedia/2012/01/more-disney-espn-content-coming-to-comcast-but-not-longhorn-network/]More”>http://blog.chron.com/sportsmedia/2012/01/more-disney-espn-content-coming-to-comcast-but-not-longhorn-network/)</p>