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RE: Larry Scott is out! - Phogge - 01-22-2021

Eric Is my links man. Also bakes the best touchdown cookies.

RE: Larry Scott is out! - 81alum - 01-22-2021

(01-21-2021, 12:43 PM)Spiny_Norman Wrote:  One easy decision - eliminate the regional P12 networks.
Why, Spiny?  Most of the Stanford football and MBB and WBB basketball games I watch come through Pac 12 Bay Area.  Without the regional networks, won't there be a lot less coverage for Stanford sports?  Stanford can't always make it to the main network, given how many simultaneous games there are in the conference.

RE: Larry Scott is out! - BobK - 01-22-2021

Wow spiny. That would be incredibly terrible for Stanford sports fans

RE: Larry Scott is out! - Spiny_Norman - 01-22-2021

(01-22-2021, 03:16 PM)81alum Wrote:  
(01-21-2021, 12:43 PM)Spiny_Norman Wrote:  One easy decision - eliminate the regional P12 networks.
Why, Spiny?  Most of the Stanford football and MBB and WBB basketball games I watch come through Pac 12 Bay Area.  Without the regional networks, won't there be a lot less coverage for Stanford sports?  Stanford can't always make it to the main network, given how many simultaneous games there are in the conference.

Running 7 separate networks is more expensive than running one, even if you are sharing content between the networks.

I agree that it would be a bad development for fans. But it may be a decision they must make for the sake of the business.

Perhaps games that are not televised can be streamed online. After all, that does seem to be where tv is headed - streaming services. In 10 years, will you even be able to access shows and sports without an internet connection?

RE: Larry Scott is out! - CompSci87 - 01-22-2021

"Seven separate networks" makes it sound like more than what it is. Really it's just seven available streams that never are all different, and many of which are rerunning prerecorded programming most of the time.

RE: Larry Scott is out! - Spiny_Norman - 01-22-2021

(01-22-2021, 03:51 PM)CompSci87 Wrote:  "Seven separate networks" makes it sound like more than what it is. Really it's just seven available streams that never are all different, and many of which are rerunning prerecorded programming most of the time.

I am not in the media business, so I don't know the specific industry economics. I imagine that it is more expensive than just running one channel/stream, I just don't know how much - some, a lot or just a little. We do know that there is no precedent for what the P12 has done (consistent with Larry Scott's "bold vision"). No other conference is running more than one channel. Of course no conference is televising more events than the P12 Network either.

We also know that services providers have balked at the cost and space on their channel lineups for the seven P12 Network channels. One channel might be an easier sell.

RE: Larry Scott is out! - BostonCard - 01-22-2021

I'd have one network channel for old fashioned sattelite and cable and then a website that can have as little or as much streaming content as is available.  Thus, there could be one live stream available (at odd hours or in the summer when it is out of season) plus whatever saved content people wish to stream, but when there are a lot of athletic events happening simultaneously, you aren't limited to seven live streams.

The days of a "channels" where what content you can present to consumers is limited, is over.

BC

RE: Larry Scott is out! - needle - 01-22-2021

Here's how the SEC Network is packaged, fwiw:

Quote: 3. What is the difference between SEC Network, SEC Network+ and SEC Network Alternate Channel?
SEC Network is a live 24-hour television network.
SEC Network Alternate is an additional television channel. It is not live 24-hours a day. Content only appears on the channel on occasion when games overlap.
SEC Network+ provides hundreds of additional digital only events to fans through the ESPN app on smartphones, computers, and tablets, Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. SEC Network+ is not a television channel.
4. Is the second SEC Network channel I see on my TV guide SEC Network+ ?
No. The additional SEC Network channel you see on your digital TV guide is the SEC Network Alternate channel. It is live only on occasion and used when live events overlap. Everything that airs on SEC Network and the SEC Network Alternate channel is also available on the ESPN app.

https://www.secsports.com/article/11130708/about-sec-network#:~:text=The%20additional%20SEC%20Network%20channel,available%20on%20the%20ESPN%20app.

RE: Larry Scott is out! - Canalejas - 01-22-2021

Would it make sense to go from six regional channels to three? PNW, CA, and Inland? Along with the main channel, would that be enough for when live events overlap?

RE: Larry Scott is out! - Phogge - 01-22-2021

There are just not enough PAC 12 fans. Especially in the Bay Area. I know that there are diehards out there but I don’t care about rewatching old football games. They need to have a big vision and produce more original programming and not depend on canned games that only alums and a few fans will watch. That takes a ton of money. Add some controversy and get rid of boring “experts” and and boring hosts.

And for God’s sake enhance production values.

RE: Larry Scott is out! - Blue Hawk (Mizzou) Card - 01-22-2021

Regarding place names, I remember my Dad's favorite headline in the local paper from our days in northwestern Minnesota:

"Fertile Woman Has Triplets" 

Dad, who had a great sense of humor, thought the only thing that would have made this better would have been a second line saying,

". . . Following Weekend in Climax."

[But, alas, that second part is fiction.]

If my recollection is correct, Fertile and Climax were about thirty miles apart.

RE: Larry Scott is out! - winflop - 01-23-2021

(01-22-2021, 03:44 PM)Spiny_Norman Wrote:  Perhaps games that are not televised can be streamed online. After all, that does seem to be where tv is headed - streaming services. In 10 years, will you even be able to access shows and sports without an internet connection?

Moving to online only impacts distribution costs. It doesn't change production or other business costs. I don't know how much each one is.

With only one "channel" instead of seven, P12N should expect a further drop in revenue, but maybe not much.

I'd pretty much scrap the whole thing and start over. The first thing would be to move to a low-cost location in the footprint. Phoenix makes a lot of sense.

RE: Larry Scott is out! - BobK - 01-23-2021

Move to Firebaugh

RE: Larry Scott is out! - CowboyIndian - 01-23-2021

(01-23-2021, 11:15 AM)BobK Wrote:  Move to Firebaugh

LOL! Or Dos Palos Y!

RE: Larry Scott is out! - Phogge - 01-23-2021

Or Hat Creek!

RE: Larry Scott is out! - Papa John - 01-25-2021

(01-22-2021, 04:16 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  I'd have one network channel for old fashioned sattelite and cable and then a website that can have as little or as much streaming content as is available.  Thus, there could be one live stream available (at odd hours or in the summer when it is out of season) plus whatever saved content people wish to stream, but when there are a lot of athletic events happening simultaneously, you aren't limited to seven live streams.

The days of a "channels" where what content you can present to consumers is limited, is over.

BC
I like what BC, Needle and Phogge are bringing to the conversation. One main Pac-12 Network as we currently have, one or two alternate channels a la SEC or BC's streaming option---as opposed to regional channels--for overlapping live content, and better production values with Phogge calling the shots.

But that's still not going to solve the main problem, which is that too many of the best football and men's basketball players in the Pacific and Mountain time zones are, for the most part, not playing for Pac-12 schools.

RE: Larry Scott is out! - Phogge - 01-25-2021

Production values are an easy fix as long as the entity is willing to pay industry scale to most technicians and over scale to a few. Also pay freelancers vacation relief, short turnaround, OT after 10 and double time after 12. Hotel after 14 regardless of location (enacted in the IATSE after an overworked assistant cameraman fell asleep at the wheel), no flat rates and provide an opportunity to enter a pension plan if staffers have one. That way you get good people particularly during the present time when a ton of talented folks can’t find much work.

Hire a veteran TV executive producer with a vision for the “Look” of the network and make sure it’s not some person who’s been sacked by a major network (worked for multiple guys who are on their last stop and phoned it in).

All that costs money. The current operation is like a C studio operating in Encino but really a continent away from Culver City or Melrose Avenue.

RE: Larry Scott is out! - Treebound - 01-25-2021

I say we nominate Phogge/TC!   Clearly has the experience and the drive.   

Bowlsby went over to be the Big12 Commissioner.  I could easily see Muir becoming comish of the Pac12.     Oliver Luck to come here.... and bring Andrew as OC! 

Don't forget Boring, Oregon and Paradise, CA!

RE: Larry Scott is out! - Papa John - 01-25-2021

I've actually been to Cool, CA.

RE: Larry Scott is out! - 82lsju - 01-25-2021

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