June 28, 2005 – C-SET (Carolinas Sports Entertainment Television), the 24-hour regional sports and entertainment network created to serve local programming interests in North and South Carolina, will cease operations effective June 30, 2005.
The sports channel can sometimes be worth much more than the sports franchise itself. Did the Bobcats play many games on that channel.
How is the Bobcats as a business doing ?
What??? That’s in 2 days. Why the sudden move? What does this mean for us/Bobcats?
[b]Did the Bobcats play many games on that channel. [/b]
Play most of them on C-set- like 62 or so.
They had real difficulty getting onto cable systems other than Time Warner, and had an agreement that they wouldn’t go on satellite. Without hearing what they say at the news conference, I would say they’ve come to the realization that it’s more valuable to have people sample your product on another station, no matter the cost, so that they might buy a ticket than exist in darkness for the fanbase you’re trying to build.
Does this mean Im not gonna be able to watch the Sting games???
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I hope our Athletic Department has a good plan of action for getting our road games televised somewhere else. WAXN maybe? Last year CSET carried about 9 of our games (6 exclusive, 3 were ESPN+ braodcasts). It will be tough to expand the fanbase when people can’t watch games on TV… Especially when our radio coverage isn’t that great either. You have to be within 5 miles of downtown to get 610 or sit in front of a computer to listen on the internet.
Can’t say I’m surprised though. I had CSET on Time Warner, but I’ve never watched anything on it besides Niner games.
You have to make the TV rights revenue work. The Las Vegas Bobcats sounds pretty good or Tampa Bobcats.
Well, I think we’ve seen the first sign that the NBA has failed in Charlotte once again. Surprise, surprise…crappy product = nobody cares…
It could have been more successful had it been a regular station versus one that is an extra cost. Most college students aren’t going to pay extra to watch the Bobcats on t.v., but if it were on regular cable, then they might tune in to watch. I know that when the games were on regular tv I watched them, but I definately wasn’t going to pay to watch.
i hear that buck. i watched every bobcats game that was on basic cable. we need to go back to waxn
[i]Originally posted by Mike_Persinger[/i]@Jun 28 2005, 11:30 AM [b] and had an agreement that they wouldn't go on satellite. [/b]What genius came up with that idea?
[i]Originally posted by Smoothieking+Jun 28 2005, 12:28 PM-->
[b]QUOTE[/b] (Smoothieking @ Jun 28 2005, 12:28 PM)
[i]Originally posted by ATL_Niner[/i]@Jun 28 2005, 12:03 PM [b] Well, I think we've seen the first sign that the NBA has failed in Charlotte once again. Surprise, surprise...crappy product = nobody cares... [/b]I don't think that's true, or that anyone can really say how well the franchise will do at this point. Okafor is a good player. If they get lucky in the draft and start going 60-22, people will go watch and be fired up. If they stink, it won't matter that it says Charlotte on the uniforms because people won't go watch.
C-SET was smart to cease operations before they had to televise 3 games from Wyoming in November. 
Actually, I hope there are some plans to get games on WAXN locally since the 49ers won’t be the ESPN/ESPN2 darlings they used to be.
The number one mistake C-Set made (as pointed out by another poster earlier) was not going on Time Warner BASIC cable.
Why didn’t they try to move to Basic Cable & Satelite before quitting?
[i]Originally posted by Mike_Persinger+Jun 28 2005, 01:29 PM-->
[b]QUOTE[/b] (Mike_Persinger @ Jun 28 2005, 01:29 PM)
[i]Originally posted by barker14[/i]@Jun 28 2005, 04:40 PM [b] The number one mistake C-Set made (as pointed out by another poster earlier) was not going on Time Warner BASIC cable. [/b]It's called greed and overestimating your market.
This city has already shown once how it will react when an NBA owner holds a gun to it’s head and apparently Bob Johnson didn’t learn from Shinn’s mistakes.