For over half a century , WTTV was central Indiana 's home for college basketball games from the Big Ten Conference , with a focus on games involving Indiana University and Purdue University . Until the late 1990s , it produced telecasts of Hoosiers and Boilermakers games , earning it the nickname of " Indiana 's Sports Station . " In fact , many cable providers in Indiana began carrying WTTV simply so viewers across the state could watch the Hoosiers and Boilermakers . Due to cost-cutting measures in the 1990s , channel 4 shuttered its in-house productions and opted instead for syndication deals with Raycom Sports and ESPN Plus . WTTV also presented other Big Ten football and men 's basketball telecasts on Saturdays , until the station lost the rights to those games when the conference launched the Big Ten Network in August 2007 . From 2007 to 2013 , WTTV aired basketball games from the " old " Big East Conference , presumably due to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 's large following in the area . WTTV regained some rights to Big Ten basketball upon its switch to CBS
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