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Posted on 5/3/13 at 3:45 pm to TheDoc
Posted on 5/3/13 at 3:45 pm to TheDoc
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I'm thinking this could be a really good thing, or a really bad thing
It's going to be a great thing. Now, every game will be available nationwide no matter where you live instead of being regional as games where on FSN and CSS.
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Posted on 5/3/13 at 4:44 pm to HuskerFan182
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That's good for the SEC. ESPN is on the line for all the money that is needed to start the channel. The SEC just gets paid, and get a lot of money because of this channel, without having to put anything up front.
It means that the SEC has a high floor and a low ceiling. The conference has limited its risk and won't have to front a share of the start-up costs, but has also limited its reward.
Slive decided to play it conservative. He obviously knows what he is doing, but I would have preferred to see the SEC w/ more equity. I think this thing is going to be a winner and I'd have liked us to have bet on ourselves. JMHO.
Posted on 5/3/13 at 4:53 pm to scrooster
Did anyone ask if Bamer,LSU, Jawga andFlorida will take up most of the programming? I'm guessing the MSU programming block will fall between 2:15 am and 2:55 am slot...
ANd I'm guessing since ESPN will be running it there will be plenty of "gaycentric" advertising. Kind of like ESPN the Magazine, which I am sure we will all be subject to receive when we sign up. They can't print one fricking edition of it without a big almost naked dude on the front cover. I stopped subsribing to their service online so they would stop sending that gay shite to my house. It was fricking embarrasing
ANd I'm guessing since ESPN will be running it there will be plenty of "gaycentric" advertising. Kind of like ESPN the Magazine, which I am sure we will all be subject to receive when we sign up. They can't print one fricking edition of it without a big almost naked dude on the front cover. I stopped subsribing to their service online so they would stop sending that gay shite to my house. It was fricking embarrasing
This post was edited on 5/3/13 at 4:59 pm
Posted on 5/3/13 at 5:44 pm to MaroonNation
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Q: How will the SEC Network perhaps change things from a Gator fan’s perspective?
A: Obviously they are going to see SEC sports 24/7. I think the decision was made because it’s going to enhance the SEC brand. Candidly, it’s got a chance when it grows – it’s not going to be this way off the bat – but when it grows it can generate significant dollars to run this enterprise not just here but at 13 other schools. It will certainly market this brand, market the SEC and give a lot of exposure to all sports and all athletes across the board. When you are trying to fill programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week, there’s going to be a lot of chances for teams to get great exposure. I think from a Florida fan’s perspective on the short term, there might be a little pain because we have had a significant situation with Sun Sports. In essence we’ve had our own cable network within the state of Florida, in 6 million homes. That will change because the inventory that has been on Sun Sports is now going to be on the SEC Network. It’s not going to be a situation where if a baseball game is not on the SEC Network, can you put it on Sun Sports? No, because all the rights have been assigned to the league, so that will be a change. Exactly how some things sift down that is to be determined. What we have talked about internally, we’ll do a good job of educating our fans to exactly what it means. As we learn more we’ll tell them. I don’t want any surprises. I don’t want anyone not knowing the lay of the land. Any time there is change, any time it’s different, it’s going to take a little while for people to get used to it. In the the big picture, it’s going to be good for the University of Florida, it’s going to be good for the league, and I think it’s going to be good for the fans.
I think this is a telling quote from Foley. Sounds like we were pretty happy about what we had going, but the league was looking to go in a different direction. I think a lot remains to be seen for us Gator fans, we could be losing a lot of coverage.
Posted on 5/3/13 at 6:46 pm to bgator85
And confirms that teams with their own channel basically will lose coverage in state
Sun won't have any UF programming Cox none for LSU
Sun won't have any UF programming Cox none for LSU
Posted on 5/3/13 at 9:25 pm to bgator85
Foley just said exactly what I've been saying, just not as bluntly.
Posted on 5/4/13 at 6:14 am to scrooster
So no more CST?
Geauxzone?
Tigervision?
Geauxzone?
Tigervision?
Posted on 5/4/13 at 7:11 am to TheDoc
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So no more CST? Geauxzone? Tigervision?
no
yes but SEC Digital, maybe go thru LSU, unsure so far
and no
Posted on 5/4/13 at 9:02 am to danfraz
So basically a lot less lsu baseball and basketball games?
Posted on 5/4/13 at 9:37 am to HuskerFan182
As for seeing more LSU baseball games specifically, no. There will be more league games as a whole, but LSU fans will never get to see all 3 games of a wkend series like this one against the gators again. It's doubtful that CST will pay the high cable rates that ESPN will be demanding & ESPN will have to show other league games to balance out the baseball tv schedule. When the gator's Foley makes the comments "gator fans will feel some pain", this is an example of what he's talking bout.
Posted on 5/4/13 at 7:33 pm to TheDoc
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So no more CST?
Geauxzone?
Tigervision?
This was the answer about things like Gatorvision, which I assume is similar to yours.
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How about GatorVision and live streaming of events on the GatorZone website?
“Moms and dads who want to watch their daughters play softball, for example, won’t see it streamed through our GatorVision system anymore. But we will still be able to stream those events through ESPN. Basically, for select games not being telecast on the network or on one of the national platforms, the new network will produce some streaming events on ESPN or the WatchESPN app. Beyond that, the institutions will be allowed to produce additional events to be streamed, but they will have to be streamed through the SEC Network and ESPN’s site, provided that ESPN has enough capacity on that event day to accommodate it and provided the production is of a certain quality -- and we will give them high quality. I will say, for example, Friday nights in February, when you have gymnastics going on and baseball games going on and softball going on, not everybody is going to get [streamed]. We don’t stream every baseball and softball game right now, anyway. Our hope is that we’ll maintain the number of events we stream now and hopefully increase programming in the future.”
Apparently our coaches' shows are still going to be on SunSports, but a lot of people seem to be concerned with the fact that we are losing Breakfast with the Gators, the Sunday morning replay of the game. This has been pretty popular for many years on Sun.
Posted on 5/5/13 at 2:21 pm to GumBro Jackson
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It means that the SEC has a high floor and a low ceiling. The conference has limited its risk and won't have to front a share of the start-up costs, but has also limited its reward.
Slive decided to play it conservative. He obviously knows what he is doing, but I would have preferred to see the SEC w/ more equity. I think this thing is going to be a winner and I'd have liked us to have bet on ourselves. JMHO.
This.
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