NO TV coverage for 1st round?

[bainsey]

Re: NO TV coverage for 1st round?

Well this stinks because I am sure a local affiliate in Maine would have picked up the broadcast.

You're damn right.

TV rights for this game are actually dictated by the NCAA, and not UNI, right?

[UNIFanSince1983]

Re: NO TV coverage for 1st round?

Actually revenues are WAY up this year...even without the sellouts you are referring to. I think the administration will make adjustments for next year ($99 season tix), but this year has been a huge success $$ wise no matter what.

Revenues may be way up, but that doesn't change the fact that we will still be in the red. Something like 95% of colleges (maybe more) lose money on their football teams. What makes us think that having 26 dollar tickets and selling 13,000 of them will prevent us from being in the red?

I really could care less if it was on TV or not since I have tickets and will be there in person. I think maybe we should treat it like the NFL does. Have some statewide TV station pick it up and then black it out in our area if we do not get a sellout. This way people who would watch, but wouldn't come anyway can see the game. This would also prevent those people from around this area who don't want to "fight traffic" or "spend the money" and maybe make them show up. This is no matter how you look at it a situation not everyone will agree on.

[Panther-Sheik]

Re: NO TV coverage for 1st round?

Revenues may be way up, but that doesn't change the fact that we will still be in the red. Something like 95% of colleges (maybe more) lose money on their football teams. What makes us think that having 26 dollar tickets and selling 13,000 of them will prevent us from being in the red?

I really could care less if it was on TV or not since I have tickets and will be there in person. I think maybe we should treat it like the NFL does. Have some statewide TV station pick it up and then black it out in our area if we do not get a sellout. This way people who would watch, but wouldn't come anyway can see the game. This would also prevent those people from around this area who don't want to "fight traffic" or "spend the money" and maybe make them show up. This is no matter how you look at it a situation not everyone will agree on.

A "blackout" might work, but we are talking about CFU doing the game. If there was a blackout, they would be producing something for nobody. We aren't talking a major network like NBC or BTN even...it is a local or regional at best company looking to broadcast so i don't see how it can really work.
As for the revenue issue, I was just countering your (and many others') "fact" that raising ticket prices this year was a huge mistake and has cost the AD money due to lost attendance. It is hard to say that it was a mistake when revenues are up very substantially this year over last even with less attendance...The issue of profitability is a totally separate one, but I would say that increased revenues is definitely pretty important to counteracting this, don't you agree? Now, with that said, i think there probably is a happy medium and TD is trying to find it (i.e. $99 season tix next year...regardless of age, seat, or number of home games).

[UNIFanSince1983]

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I agree there does need to be some sort of happy medium. And yes revenues being up will put us less into the red than before.

Yeah I realize there isn't a real possibility of a "blackout" but I thought if there was a way to do it, it would be a pretty good idea. Like I said if there was like a statewide or regional station that could do it. (Obviously if CFU does it there is no way to do a blackout).

[UNI MadCat]

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Is this game available online at least? A large group of us were planning on going but a death in my family means we will all be in Wisconsin this weekend. We still talked about the possibility of watching it online as watching it would have been the wishes of the person who passed on, also a big Panther fan.

[ubuntuCAT]

Watch UNI-Maine NCAA FCS Playoff Game Free

http://unipanthers.cstv.com/sports/m...112808aaa.html

[Newsbreaker]

Re: Watch UNI-Maine NCAA FCS Playoff Game Free

http://unipanthers.cstv.com/sports/m...112808aaa.html

Is there any way that works on smartphones/moblie devices?

[Trapped in California]

Re: NO TV coverage for 1st round?

Possibly a apple iphone, since Stretch uses QuickTime. Otherwise, you would need to do some serious manipulation of the stream in order to "rebroadcast" it to your phone. Maybe if you hooked up the computer to a slingbox...?

[Newsbreaker]

Re: NO TV coverage for 1st round?

Possibly a apple iphone, since Stretch uses QuickTime. Otherwise, you would need to do some serious manipulation of the stream in order to "rebroadcast" it to your phone. Maybe if you hooked up the computer to a slingbox...?

There is no quicktime application for anything other than the Iphone, but I found an app that claims to play quicktime files. We'll see.

The bigger problem is probably the ultra-slow connection speed for smartphones in Iowa.

[Trapped in California]

Re: NO TV coverage for 1st round?

What is the name of the application? I have a palm based Treo.

[Newsbreaker]

Re: NO TV coverage for 1st round?

What is the name of the application? I have a palm based Treo.

TCPMP by Core. It was free. There is apparently a pay version that is current (this one is for Windows Mobile 5) but I'm not about to drop 30 bucks on something that *might* work.

[cfujoe]

Re: NO TV coverage for 1st round?

i'm not complaining since I can see some of the video, but the audio is cutting in an out on the free internet stream