Well this should be interesting.

The BIG EAST Conference and ESPN will announce a major new media agreement from ESPN Zone in New York at noon on Tuesday, August 29. The press conference announcing the agreement will be streamed live on ESPN360, ESPN’s customized broadband service.

Michael Tranghese, BIG EAST Conference Commissioner, and John Wildhack, ESPN Senior Vice President, Programming Acquisitions and Strategy will participate in the press conference. Bill Raftery, college sports personality and winner of the 2006 Curt Gowdy Media Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, will serve as host.

It seems that some of ESPN360 is generally available to view and some is “exclusive.” Meaning that your highspeed ISP has to be a partner with ESPN on this. Verizon appears to be a partner, but AT&T (formerly SBC) is not. The BE website will post details after the press conference.

We’ve been waiting on this for most of the summer. Rumors have been plenty, but not particularly clear.