year and date please.....'04-'05 season thanks mostly to C-SET
I don't think the words he would use could get through to you.Well we won't know until he tries. I don't know what he was trying to get through to me. Maybe you could try for him.
[QUOTE=metro;257854]Sig Sports buys our rights to broadcast and if they donât get enough takers to fill the slots then it is not profitable to buy the airtime.
also Blame A10 execs/Bruno. They have dropped the ball in a big way with ESPN.
Sig Sports is willing to take a small loss to get us on the air. Everyone of their employees are alum. They canât go broke doing it though. If I remember right, it costs 20k to put a game on the air.[/QUOTE]
Personally, I think the A10 TV deal (or lack thereof) is solely 100% the fault of the Atlantic 10 Conference. They f**ked it up, big time.
I have a question related to local broadcasting. We sold the rights to Signature Sports and its their job to find a buyer? Right?
Iâm aware from your comments that they are alums. Thats fine, but what I donât understand is âHow do other D1 sports teams in NC handle this?â Is the breakeven (or slight loss) point that much different than other schools? This seems to be a recurring theme the past few years and I would think the within the bounds of Capitalism, their should be other choices.
BEFORE ANYONE SAYS SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT âSig Sports are great peopleâ or âSig Sports cares for the UniversityââŚthatâs not my point.
Iâm interested in this objectively, what is in the Athletic Dept. best interest and not from the fact that Sig Sports does the best they can for the school. Iâm sure they do, but is it the best the school can get?
disclaimer: I donât know anyone at Sig Sports and I realize that 49ers are a tough sell in this market, but Iâve never seen signs of someone considering anything different.
supply and demand dictate all this. Sadly we alone or as a league donât gaurantee eyeballs on TV sets. Advertisers donât care to put up a couple grand per night to sell their product because the ratings prove not too many will see the product they are trying to sell.
when we get back to having an exciting product on the floor equivalent to the Diego/Demarco days, and establish some morsel of rivalry again with somebody, then maybe we can have more TV games.
it would also help greatly if we played in a more regional conference. All the SoCon schools are close by, and there are many alum from SoCon schools littered in the area which = ratings.
nobody is screwing us but ourselves, its self inflicted
supply and demand dictate all this. Sadly we alone or as a league don't gaurantee eyeballs on TV sets. Advertisers don't care to put up a couple grand per night to sell their product because the ratings prove not too many will see the product they are trying to sell.True, I donât expect many people who arnât regular fans would want to watch us right now. You probably have to have been a fan of us when we were still in CUSA to be a fan of us now and want to see us. But we would have more of those fans and more city support if certain parties werenât shafting us. Proper coverage and adequate money to get our name out there and spead the word about us would have helped. A different name, making it vastly easier to have our own identity would have helped a ton. We may still have had a local tv game or two if we hadnât had to face these challenges.when we get back to having an exciting product on the floor equivalent to the Diego/Demarco days, and establish some morsel of rivalry again with somebody, then maybe we can have more TV games.
it would also help greatly if we played in a more regional conference. All the SoCon schools are close by, and there are many alum from SoCon schools littered in the area which = ratings.
nobody is screwing us but ourselves, its self inflicted
[QUOTE=metro;257911]it would also help greatly if we played in a more regional conference. All the SoCon schools are close by, and there are many alum from SoCon schools littered in the area which = ratings.[/QUOTE]
QFT
I donât think anyone will get too excited by these games. I know Picassoâs wonât have folks bellying up to the bar on game nights!
[QUOTE]SportSouth reaches 8.9 million cable and satellite subscribers across a six state region comprised of Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and regions of central and western North Carolina. FSN South reaches 12 million homes in seven states in the Southeast.[/QUOTE]
I also donât think theyâll draw any huge ratings there either but they can get national advertisers due to the network.
[B][U]2007-08 SportSouth Southern Conference Menâs Basketball Schedule[/U][/B]
Dec 1, Sat - Appalachian State at Georgia Southern, 3:00 p.m.
Jan 5, Sat - Georgia Southern at UNC Greensboro, 3:00 p.m.
Jan 12, Sat - Western Carolina at Chattanooga, 3:00 p.m.
Jan 19, Sat - UNC Greensboro at Elon, 3:00 p.m.
Jan 26, Sat - Appalachian State at Chattanooga, 3:00 p.m.
Jan 26, Sat - Davidson at College of Charleston, 5:00 p.m.
Feb 2, Sat - Furman at Wofford, 3:00 p.m.
Feb 9, Sat - College of Charleston at Davidson, 3:00 p.m.
Feb 16, Sat - Furman at Davidson, 3:00 p.m.
Feb 23, Sat - The Citadel at Western Carolina, 3:00 p.m.
Mar 9, Sun - Southern Conference Tournament-Semifinals, 6:00 p.m.
Mar 9, Sun - Southern Conference Tournament-Semifinals, 8:30 p.m.
[B][U]2007-08 SportSouth Southern Conference Womenâs Basketball Schedule[/U][/B]
Jan 12, Sat - Elon at Chattanooga, 12:30 p.m.
Feb 23, Sat - Georgia Southern at Western Carolina, 12:30 p.m.
Mar 9, Sun - Southern Conference Tournament-Semifinals, 12:00 p.m.
Mar 9, Sun - Southern Conference Tournament-Semifinals, 2:30 p.m.
Mar 10, Mon - Southern Conference Tournament-Championship, 5:00 p.m.
[QUOTE=metro;257911]All the SoCon schools are close by[/QUOTE]
- A Charlotte/Elon game will not draw attention.
- A move to the SoCon will have a much more negative effect on support than the move to the A10.
- Shouldnât we be tryhing to pick up Nianer fans from the 2 million in the Charlotte Observer metro area, not tryhing to get Western Carolina fans?
- Recent polls state over 80% of Niner fans are opposed to dropping backward 10 steps to the SoCon.
- The only thing SoCon membership will do is give us an excuse to get rid of Judy.
- Did Mike get to you? He was opposed to us joining CUSA when we did. I understand he and David Poole wanted us in the CAA instead of CUSA back in the mid-90s.
It may cost $20K a game for a TV 64 production, but I know for a fact it could be done for less if it was sold to a News 14 type station (who has very few veiwers compared to TV 64).
[QUOTE=Chipper;257891]Even when we were beating Cincy and Loserville in CUSA the local demand to see our games was not what it should have been. We would get those big wins on National TV back then but everyone in Charlotte would be more familiar with the ACC games that had taken place the night before. Those games seemed to get more attention than our big wins. Our games did receive much attention on a national scale. Just not on a local scale.[/QUOTE]
WTF did you expect?
The Observer would do big pre-game articles on televised acc games (sometimes between the 2 last place teams in the league) but not mention our game, even if it was televised. Not only did some local residents not know we were on TV, it also left the perception that qthe 9ers are ânot worthyâ.
This, of course, happened under the same sports editor that did NOT want us to join CUSA.
I am SOOOO sick of hearing how IF we won more we'd be on TV more! Give me a break, maybe we would be on a little more nationally, but it should not effect our local coverage (which we do not have). We should have atleast a few games on a local package, PERIOD whether we're 30-0 or 0-30!:mallet:
Screw both of them comments we have no school spirit thats whats wrong with our dam school when we had an espn game they had to tape off some areas so we would looked filled we have 24 thousand ppl and what we can barley fill the bottom half of our games and when our girls play no one goes and they win alot of games face it they win they have more tvgames and still no one comes wow thats whats wrong but hey go niners im there
[QUOTE=ninersfan99;258014]It may cost $20K a game for a TV 64 production, but I know for a fact it could be done for less if it was sold to a News 14 type station (who has very few veiwers compared to TV 64).[/QUOTE]
look- everyone wants our games on TV. Nobody is doing anything wrong. The fact is airtime costs money and we canât generate the commercial revenue to cover the cost, OR IT WOULD BE DONE. You are not going to reinvent the wheel with News 14 or Ch 22.
there are 3 options: the school has to take the hit and televise for a loss, we find a TV station who donates the airtime and takes whatever revenue it muster from the game, or we put a team together that excites interest and sells itself.
not being a smart ass here, but if you know for a âfactâ how to do it, Sig Sports phone number is listed in the book and I am sure they would love nothing more than to here the solution that they nor the school can solve.
[QUOTE=uncclegend;258019]Screw both of them comments we have no school spirit thats whats wrong with our dam school when we had an espn game they had to tape off some areas so we would looked filled we have 24 thousand ppl and what we can barley fill the bottom half of our games and when our girls play no one goes and they win alot of games face it they win they have more tvgames and still no one comes wow thats whats wrong but hey go niners im there[/QUOTE]
dude, mix in some punctuation.
I remember watching games on TV all the time when Henry Williams, Sean Colson and DeMarco were on the team. I believe the local affilates picked them up.
[QUOTE=Savio;258022]I remember watching games on TV all the time when Henry Williams, Sean Colson and DeMarco were on the team. I believe the local affilates picked them up.[/QUOTE]
They did⌠and they picked them up into the late 90s and early 2000s.
Of course, lots of people in Charlotte never knew we were on TV because the local paper advised they watch the glorius televised matchup between Florida State and Clemson⌠no mention of Niner game.
WTF did you expect?The Observer would do big pre-game articles on televised acc games (sometimes between the 2 last place teams in the league) [B]but not mention our game, even if it was televised[/B]. Not only did some local residents not know we were on TV, it also [B]left the perception that qthe 9ers are ânot worthyâ[/B].
This, of course, happened under the same sports editor that did NOT want us to join CUSA.
arenât these the same people who donât want us to get football as well?
[QUOTE=ninerID;258034]arenât these the same people who donât want us to get football as well?[/QUOTE]
I donât believe the sports editor is calling the shots on this one. I hear itâs been explained to him that he will not be opposed to NINER FOOTBALL.
Now to address Overâs rants. He has valid points but crying about spilled milk will do us no good. Sure we got the shaft numerous times and sure the unfair treatment cost us fans. Most of us understand that. But we are in a position now that we have to start winning games again. That in itself will solve some problems. That and football.
[QUOTE=metro;258020]
not being a smart ass here, but if you know for a âfactâ how to do it, Sig Sports phone number is listed in the book and I am sure they would love nothing more than to here the solution that they nor the school can solve.[/QUOTE]
So the people running the program here donât know how to do it and have sold the rights to a group of people who donât know how to do it either, but are waiting by the phone for someone to tell them how to get the job done?
You guys are funny.
http://www.charlotte.com/456/story/275381.html
I bet some of those Davidson students could put an end to this. They just need to show those geese whoâs boss.
OK, carry on.
[URL=http://www.charlotte.com/456/story/275381.html]http://www.charlotte.com/456/story/275381.html[/URL]I bet some of those Davidson students could put an end to this. They just need to show those geese whoâs boss.
OK, carry on.
Buy a couple dozen nice slingshots, a couple barrels of lima beans and some camping gear. Make a new class entitled âAdvanced Targeting Incorporating Physics and Forced Migration.â
Sixty percent of the male population at the school would sign up for a slot and that problem would go away very quickly.