it's actually at the point where the entire thing is no longer frustrating but just like we're watching a police chase on live tv where you wonder how much longer this guy can keep going with this network.
literally the only fans who can possibly continue to care about the Pac12 Networks are the ones whose teams are the conference drecks that can't get on ESPN or FS1, but those schools are tiny and inconsequential so really there is nothing about Scott's strategy that matters to any of the fans.
Every now and then Wilner would poast something about the "great studio shows on the Pac12 Network"....I had the network for 3 years and I could never figure out when these shows were...i don't think they were consistently scheduled so, again, nobody cares.
Anyway, Wilner did a column on these numbers a couple days ago and what caught my eye was that literally the 2 worst performing networks were Pac12 and the Tennis Channel...that made me laugh.
Everyone in the conference should care. Our allocated revenue from the TV contracts continue to fall well below initial projections, and we still have a game or two every year that is shown on this network that allegedly exists, which hurts our profile.
You are right Green. Scott is really hurting this conference. It's at Defcon 4, and that should worry everybody concerned
Defcon 4? Try Defcon 1, poopy.
I thought 5 was worst. Ok defcon 2 then. Defcon 1 would be no network dude. Nobody wants that
The sad thing is given what we are getting for the channel per subscriber, they still can't make a fucking deal with DirecTV
I had the channel for 3 years and I can tell you that there is zero watchable tv for guys like us on it....it goes beyond boring because it is 99% replays of games I didn't want to watch when they were on the first time.
The model is wrong if the target audience is humans.
The sad thing is given what we are getting for the channel per subscriber, they still can't make a fucking deal with DirecTV
I had the channel for 3 years and I can tell you that there is zero watchable tv for guys like us on it....it goes beyond boring because it is 99% replays of games I didn't want to watch when they were on the first time.
The model is wrong if the target audience is humans.
The target audience is China, who never had an opportunity to watch 2004 Oregon State vs. Arizona until now.
The two biggest mistakes were made out of the gate.
Insisting that the PAC 12, who had no experience nor clue on how to own, market or run a TV network, own market and operate a TV network.
Not doing what it took to get Directv on board at the very beginning, when Comcast signed on.
Now it's time to sell it to FSN or NBC/COMCAST, or it will eventually get to a point where it will COST the conference $$$ to keep the lights on.
And with the cord cutting going on, and people under 25 less interested in watching sports in general, many tv insiders believe sports tv deal $ has peaked. The conference will start negotiating their next tv deal in 2022. If they are allready down to a dime per subscriber, what could it be by then, and then as salemcoog says, it could cost the Pac-12 money to put their programming on tv.
when Larry made the deal his brilliant strategy was to keep all the content in house so the Pac-12 owned it.
What he failed to realize is 100% of nothing (which is what the Pac-12 network is worth) is still nothing
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The model is wrong if the target audience is humans.
The conference will start negotiating their next tv deal in 2022. If they are allready down to a dime per subscriber, what could it be by then, and then as salemcoog says, it could cost the Pac-12 money to put their programming on tv.
when Larry made the deal his brilliant strategy was to keep all the content in house so the Pac-12 owned it.
What he failed to realize is 100% of nothing (which is what the Pac-12 network is worth) is still nothing
Holy fuck all
frankly idk if anyone can do anything with the pac network. no one gives a fuck about football out west.