State Championships
- Thread starter TigerHawk77
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I agree. The whole production was terrible. I was beginning to wonder if 2A and 3A existed. Some great matches were not televised. The entire thing was a joke. Getting rid of the split screen, not realizing they came back from commercial and missing awards ceremonies, showing ZERO clips of some of the best wrestlers in the state as they won (we didn't even see what the undefeated, potential 4 timer, 119, 2A state champ looked like until the medal ceremony ... how terrible). How or why they chose not to air the Moreno/Gilmore matchup deserves explanation.
I believe you will be speaking for hundreds, if not thousands of us, Jon. Of course, what recourse do we all have? Turn the channel? Nope. I honestly think they won't give a d*** what any of us think. If they did, they would have done some customer surveys and found out real quick that we want the split screen. They don't care. And if they don't care, please ask them to give production and execution back to IPTV.
I believe you will be speaking for hundreds, if not thousands of us, Jon. Of course, what recourse do we all have? Turn the channel? Nope. I honestly think they won't give a d*** what any of us think. If they did, they would have done some customer surveys and found out real quick that we want the split screen. They don't care. And if they don't care, please ask them to give production and execution back to IPTV.
Perhaps I was too quick to blame Fox. My bad, Jon. If anyone can post a phone # or website for these fine folks, I'd appreciate it. I will contact them also. What a shame. I was having a great day. You should have seen the owners of The Sports Column in Iowa City. One's a former Hawk wrestler. Just irate at the coverage. It is a huge tradition there to watch it.
TigerHawk77
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yea this was completely terrible. I watched to see a good friend of mine wrestle in the state finals, I saw his match for about 10 seconds total. The entire broadcast was just overall bad. Not very happy about it, doubt I ever tune in again not being much of a wrestling fan
Hawks4life11
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Totally agree. If someone has a phone number, email address, or mail address for a place to contact them it would be nice if you could post it here so we can all let them know what we thought. If they are any sort of business people, they will realize that it is best not to p*** off your viewers.
tmurph2643
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Iowa High School Sports Network - Contact Us
And don't waste your time with the email option.. it will not work. It says there is an error. So I am pretty sure they don't really want any feedback. It just looks good to have it there.
JonDMiller
Publisher/Founder
I was able to get some answers related to this.
I guess the decision to not go split screen this year was two fold; economic and due to some people complaining that the text and the like was too small to read when the split screens were there.
My guess is they will return to the split screens next year, because the feedback they are going to get on this front is going to be enormous.
I guess the decision to not go split screen this year was two fold; economic and due to some people complaining that the text and the like was too small to read when the split screens were there.
My guess is they will return to the split screens next year, because the feedback they are going to get on this front is going to be enormous.
The production was terrible. This takes away so much from the event. It always sells out so if you do not have a ticket and they decide not to show your local students match you have no chance to see your wrestler in the finals. I hope they realize the mistake they made.
DesMoinesHawki
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That was very frustrating to not have the split screen ... Always looks forward to at least seeing the three matches at the same time ... Hopefully that will be addressed next year.
