In a bombshell press release, K-State announced a move today nobody was expecting, especially with the season opener less than two weeks away: KStateHD.tv, as a paid provider of live streaming event content, is effectively dead.
Not because it’s been a failure -- the third-tier digital outlet brought several million dollars of revenue to the school each year, even if most of that was single-month subscriptions in order to view the lone FCS game each year — but because the athletic department found a deal it could not pass up.
K-State has signed agreements with Sidearm and ESPN3 to distribute its digital content, including over 20 live contests in multiple sports.