No Evidence Of Back9 Network's "Build-Out"

Thanks to reader Brad for Dan Haar's Hartford Courant story on Ahmad Rashad joining the BackNineNetwork as a personality and investor, but even the local paper is skeptical about the golf lifestyle network's planned 2014 launch.

Back9 renovated a floor of the "Boat Building" on Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford and took space nearby on the plaza, formerly occupied by Spris restaurant, with plans to spend $8 million on a buildout. But that buildout hasn't happened yet, as the fledgling network seeks a deal with a major cable carrier.