SNY article - acquired UConn women's bball w/ Men's and Football

[whaler11]

Nobody is arguing why they did it. To pretend there isnt a portion of the fanbase negatively impacted is stupid. Either they spend more or dont have access. Pretty simple.

 

[Dann]

Nobody is arguing why they did it. To pretend there isnt a portion of the fanbase negatively impacted is stupid. Either they spend more or dont have access. Pretty simple.

just so i understand this. what portion of the fanbase did we hurt here? the old ppl including my grandma now instead of watching channel 10 or w/e it is will now watch the game on channel 60. this move hurts the fanbase becuase the channel number is alot higher????

this adds a ton of markets in ny/nj/pa which leads to new viewers and fans. we make 200k more every one that could watch it before can now watch it still. i don't get the beef? what am i missing? ppl should be happy they don't have to sit thru those infomercial things for cheap uconn stuff. instead they can save the couple hundred bucks they spend on that every year and now buy tix to a extra game or 2 a year or buy a new shirt thru the school. seems like a win to me.

 

[CTMike]

91% of Americans have cable or satellite; I'm willing to bet it's even higher in CT.

 

[Carl Spackler]

If anyone wants to see the power of ESPN in numbers, check out their corporate parents earnings yesterday (Disney). It isnt ABC that drives their earnings.....it isnt the movies.....not the theme parks......the single biggest contributor to Disney's bottom line is ESPN.

That is the kind of bat ESPN swings out there, they are driving a company like Disney.

correct. By continually increasing subscriber fees, ESPN is driving the profitability of Disney. DIsney and Comcast very recently, in January I believe, agreed to have ESPN mobile internet broadcasts carried on the Comcast owned streaming services - which is the largest in the country. And ESPN has been advertising the watch ESPN thing.

ESPN has a problem in CT, though and that's AT&T, and the fact that most people in CT can't stream from the WatchESPN services that are linked with Verizon. Unless the big east conference is seriously expecting ESPN to provide a contract such that BIg East football is going to be regularly broadcast on ESPN channels on saturday afternoons? The only way we're getting in primetime college football to our own broadcasting reach, is through streaming services from ESPN that the majority of people in CT don't have access to. So, it's Wednesday night football for UConn, if we're going to be on TV. No thanks.

My concern in all of this has nothing to do with any of it in these giant parent corporations, it's my alma mater - UConn -and the success of my school moving forward.

There was a time, when the people in charge at ESPN were very much tied to, and concerned about the health of the UConn athletic department, and in turn - the Big EAst conference, in mutually benefiting each other, having both started at the same time, by the same people that sat together and hatched the ideas 32 years ago.

That time has long past for ESPN, and UConn, and the Big east conference, is just beginning to start to operate as a business, with no personal attachment to any of it, and UConn is simply moving forward in a way that best benefits our university, and our local broadcast area for fans.

 

[whaler11]

just so i understand this. what portion of the fanbase did we hurt here? the old ppl including my grandma now instead of watching channel 10 or w/e it is will now watch the game on channel 60. this move hurts the fanbase becuase the channel number is alot higher????

this adds a ton of markets in ny/nj/pa which leads to new viewers and fans. we make 200k more every one that could watch it before can now watch it still. i don't get the beef? what am i missing? ppl should be happy they don't have to sit thru those infomercial things for cheap uconn stuff. instead they can save the couple hundred bucks they spend on that every year and now buy tix to a extra game or 2 a year or buy a new shirt thru the school. seems like a win to me.

Old people who cant afford cable or those that now have to pay for cable if they want access. It hurts a specific portion of the fanbase. If you are too dense to see it not sure how I can help you.

 

[whaler11]

Watch espn isn't linked to your wireless provider its linked to your cable provider. So if you have Comcast at some point in near future you have access.

 

[Dann]

Old people who cant afford cable or those that now have to pay for cable if they want access. It hurts a specific portion of the fanbase. If you are too dense to see it not sure how I can help you.

i'm sorry, but how many people no matter the age don't have cable? is it really that many? i can't imagine it being that many? old people wise every nursing home has cable and i would think 99% in ct do have cable? i guess i'm just not seeing it.

 

[speedoo]

Old people who cant afford cable or those that now have to pay for cable if they want access. It hurts a specific portion of the fanbase. If you are too dense to see it not sure how I can help you.

How about providing a specific number or %, since you are so concerned about these folks? Wouldn't that contribute a lot more to the discussion than insults?

 

[whaler11]

i'm sorry, but how many people no matter the age don't have cable? is it really that many? i can't imagine it being that many? old people wise every nursing home has cable and i would think 99% in ct do have cable? i guess i'm just not seeing it.

According to google its 64% in the lowest income brackets. Many have cable but not a package that includes SNY as well. Its probably not a huge number of people and they clearly arent valuable, but they are good fans and get a bit screwed in their minds.

 

[Dann]

According to google its 64% in the lowest income brackets. Many have cable but not a package that includes SNY as well. Its probably not a huge number of people and they clearly arent valuable, but they are good fans and get a bit screwed in their minds.

hmm ok. i understand where your coming from and see the beef. interesting.

 

[CL82]

Lots of people pay attention to this website. I've paid attention for a long time. I'm convinced without a doubt, that there are several posting names around here that aren't at all what they say they are, .