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Post by hc2489 on Sept 8, 2016 12:37:11 GMT -5
Why not? I see that becoming a standard provision in such contracts. The constituency for such a provision is the players' parents, relatives, friends, coaches as well as alums, fans, etc., who may live hundreds or thousands of miles away from the game's location. My guess is now most schools have potential feeds produced by their conference, their local TV station, a cable or broadcast network or an outsource individually contracted. Yes, but you overlook that rights are often exclusive. For example, a UNH game broadcast by NESN, and if there is no streaming, and you don't get NESN in FL:you are plain out of luck. If I pay through the nose for an expanded sports bundle, which gives me the Big Ten network, then the Big Ten network doesn't live-stream Michigan's game with Eastern Michigan for free. The Big Ten network charges an average of 0.39 cents a month, has 79 million subscribers, and annual revenue of $370 million. The SEC network has annual revenue of $546 million. Your UNH-NESN is a hypothetical, but does anyone know if there will a streaming option for the game on Saturday? the page on goholycross says TBA currently
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Post by lou on Sept 8, 2016 12:39:39 GMT -5
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 9, 2016 7:21:42 GMT -5
#1 All contracts are negotiable. #2 The schools have to value streaming and factor that into their negotiating, although smaller programs don't have much leverage with the media. All contracts are indeed negotiable, but when it comes to television coverage here's how the conversation goes between a TV network like CBSSN, NESN, etc., and a school like UNH or Holy Cross: TV: We'd like to televise your football game on XX date vs. XX opponent. School: Great! TV: You'll have to move the game to XX time. School: But we've already promoted it at another time. TV: Do you want the game on TV or not? School: ...........yes. TV: Good. Move it to the time we want. School: What about streaming? TV: What about it? School: Can we also stream the game? TV: No. If it's streamed, we'll do it through our platform. We might stream it, we might not. We'll let you know closer to the event.
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Post by sarasota on Sept 9, 2016 7:50:02 GMT -5
School: Forget it then. Our opponent's conference will stream the game. (There is very little wider audience for our games. What's more important is guaranteeing a stream for our teams' followers.)
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 9, 2016 8:42:19 GMT -5
Yeah, no, that's not how that goes.
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 9, 2016 16:59:34 GMT -5
Sarasota, may I suggest that you consider adding to the bottom of your pages:
“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” - RFK
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Post by joe on Sept 9, 2016 19:08:24 GMT -5
'Sota is just fed up with the same old stupidness of the last few decades. Can't blame him.
Thankfully I think we can soon look at poor/absent video streams at OOC away games as a charming old remnant of days gone by.
Beat UNH!
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Post by sarasota on Sept 9, 2016 21:37:51 GMT -5
sader1970- You are very perceptive--even if you may have intended that to be sarcastic. I tried to apply that attitude throughout my professional career. Maybe that's how I became a product development mgr. My heroes (Edison, Ford, Jobs, Einstein, etc.) all lived by that mantra. Einstein was correct when he said "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 10, 2016 6:31:32 GMT -5
I did not have a chance to respond earlier to Joe's post and thought you might think my suggestion was sarcastic but, while I understand why you might think that it was meant as sarcasm, it was intended as straight-forward serious based on your many comments about improvements to Fitton football field and streaming which is not now the current reality and your questioning why not now.
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Post by sarasota on Sept 10, 2016 12:46:44 GMT -5
sader- Thx for clarification.
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