Question for Jon Miller concerning tv coverage

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Keeker16

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Jon,

Just wondering what your thoughts are on the nonconference BTN coverage? Seems like every year there are less and less games on. It seems the good teams are on all the time and everybody else has to listen to the radio. When you e-mail them they give crappy excuses about not having access to away games and the option of streaming. However most Big ten teams don't play many away games and the streaming option usually sucks in quality. Just wondering what your thoughts were on this after having worked with the BTN.
 
I think the non-conference season, for the most part, is very disappointing. I just now went in and looked at where the games are going to be on...I had scanned it before, but never taken a serious look.

For this year's team, with a winnable out of conference portion of the schedule, giving fans a chance to see the new direction of the program and actually see them win is probably the best tonic to get people to want to come over and buy tickets to the Big Ten portion of the season.

I don't believe Iowa has much control over this, but it's still disappointing to say the least.

8 of Iowa's 13 non conference games are on BTN.com...that is too many.

Now, one way Iowa can reduce the number of its games that appear on BTN.com is to win more games. Still, it's very disappointing.
 
That's the problem when you're on a network that covers 11 other teams. Definitely not like the days when the Hawks were on local TV. Here in Cedar Rapids, they'd pre-empt "Murphy Brown" or whatever CBS was airing that night for Iowa basketball! It was a pretty big deal.
 
OccupyKinnick said:
That's the problem when you're on a network that covers 11 other teams. Definitely not like the days when the Hawks were on local TV. Here in Cedar Rapids, they'd pre-empt "Murphy Brown" or whatever CBS was airing that night for Iowa basketball! It was a pretty big deal.
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The 12 teams to cover isn't the issue. Mediacom is picking up some of the games, why not all? Probably because the BTN is wanting too much dough, is my guess of what the issue is. Horse crud if you ask 97.3% of Hawkeye fans.

I wouldn't care who was showing the games, I would much rather watch it on a big screen (at home, a buddies or a tavern) than on a tiny little picture of a computer. Of course, I can maximize it and watch this blurred picture with a bunch of dudes running around.... That is not a 50inch HD picture with a room full of Hawk fans, or potential future Hawk fans.
 
I dont understand why the bten network can't sell games they don't carry on tv to local providers cable or broadcast.
 
DuffMan said:
I dont understand why the bten network can't sell games they don't carry on tv to local providers cable or broadcast.
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This to me would make sense as well. I honestly can't believe they would make more via .com than reselling the product.
 
DuffMan said:
I dont understand why the bten network can't sell games they don't carry on tv to local providers cable or broadcast.
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they can. thats how mediacom gets a handful of games.

i am also curious to know to cost for picking these up. the thing is that some are produced by the BTN and others are produced locally, so its not going to be consistent.
 
DuffMan said:
I dont understand why the bten network can't sell games they don't carry on tv to local providers cable or broadcast.
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I don't understand that either Duff. I would assume it would be so the btn can charge people to view online. However I would think the btn would make more money if they sold the.rights to a local station.
Hopefully if not enough people pay for the online subsciption they start selling the rights to more games.
It is really annoying though, get your own network and get to watch less games. Its also strange that the btn does not use the spill over channels for hoops like they do for football.
 
Wow. Pretty easy solution:

BUY SEASON TICKETS. THEY ARE CHEAP AND THEY ARE PLENTIFUL.

I did and I'm glad I did. I can't attend all the games, but I am going to go to many of them, particularly the ones that are not televised.
 
ChosenChildren said:
Wow. Pretty easy solution:

BUY SEASON TICKETS. THEY ARE CHEAP AND THEY ARE PLENTIFUL.

I did and I'm glad I did. I can't attend all the games, but I am going to go to many of them, particularly the ones that are not televised.
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Yeah, I'll get right on that and make the 6 yr drive from MN. :) Thanks for supporting the Hawks by purchasing season tickets though.

Keep in mind not everyone lives within driving distance of Carver to make the games. You pretty much have to live within an hr of IC to expect to make weeknight games with any regularity. I have 4 kids all playing sports, so even if I lived next door to carver I could only make maybe a 1/3 of games.

And since the Hawks are rarely on TV, how are my kids supposed to develop a following for the team???
 
What I don't understand is why won't any of the local stations buy these games and put them on. Where I am at DirectTV or Dish Network are my only options if I want cable. One would think the local stations could make money selling advertising picking up those non conference games.
 
I bought tickets for this season knowing full well that I won't make more than 1/2 of the games.

As it turns out I will miss all games in November for certain and likely early December as well. My tickets are all being used but crappy streaming is disappointing to me.
 
Lack of TV games disappoint for me too as BTN only option I have here in FL. I guess could go for streaming but my computer setup not best for that.
Then again, I look at games not being shown and think, who the heck they playing?? I understand the schedule this year as want to try and improve record but I can also understand that it is Iowa (at this time, one fo lower level Big Ten teams) against ???

My hope is that BTN eventually decides to use a second channel during basketball season. I never have understood issues there but hopefully it will happen in couple years. I assume cost is the issue and it would be more of daily need rather than just saturdays, as it is during football season.
 
ChosenChildren said:
Wow. Pretty easy solution:

BUY SEASON TICKETS. THEY ARE CHEAP AND THEY ARE PLENTIFUL.

I did and I'm glad I did. I can't attend all the games, but I am going to go to many of them, particularly the ones that are not televised.
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Ha! Most of us on this board cannot get to the games. Heck, I cannot make but a couple football games and they are ALL on Saturdays!
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The B1G is using us as a test/forced marketing practice. Plain and simple. They are seeing if they can push us to buy online, bypassing all cable and satellite carriers. Greed, no other explainations othe than that...
There are two ways this stops; they figure out it isn't working, that the individual schools are suffering and that the identity of Iowa basketball has disappeared(out of sight, out of mind), and drop the price on re-selling Hawkeye games. OR we get good - the more likely event. Especially considering we have the Franimal!
 
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