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afwriter
1/11/2017 10:52:48 AM
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Accessibility
I think that this is a step in the right direction for sports programming as a whole. I know that earlier this year I had a situation where I couldn't get local channels in order to watch my beloved Vikings and it was a pain in the you know what to find somewhere online to stream the game. I think that if you make games more accessible, like just having to log on to Facebook, people would be more willing to watch them. Community will be a benefit of this of course, but I still think that accessibility will be the main draw.
clrmoney
1/11/2017 11:16:31 AM
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BT with Social media online
The BT want to be on socil media okay but be prepared for the risks that arte involved and only positive I'll give it is it's great for promotional/advertising of what you're trying to put out there.
Adi
1/11/2017 11:22:28 AM
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Re: Accessibility
@afwriter - I think this is easier to pull off in the UK, we don't really have a history of local market black-outs. Sports broadcasting licensing in the US is a bit more complex, so rights could be trickier.
afwriter
1/11/2017 11:38:28 AM
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Re: Accessibility
Good point, its all about that ad revenue. I wonder if there would be a way to work out royalties/ad revenue that would magically make the licensing issues easier to navigate.
dmendyk
1/11/2017 12:45:18 PM
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A modest proposal
NBA games last about two and a half hours. Even longer than a "football" match. This does not mesh with today's attention spans. Shorten the game times to a half hour, tip-off to final buzzer. Maybe that sits better with 21st century tastes.
Adi
1/12/2017 10:54:59 AM
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Re: A modest proposal
dmendyk - you may be on to something. They have done that with cricket, bringing a five day (yup; that's d-a-y) game down to just one day in the eighties; and then down to mere hours in the T20 format, launched about 10 years ago. It's doing very well in some parts, but cricketing purists are outraged.
dmendyk
1/12/2017 11:12:21 AM
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Re: A modest proposal
Over the past 20 years, U.S. sports leagues have done some time-shaving tweaks, but the end-to-end duration of games has not shrunk accordingly. "Purists" don't mind longer contests, but the time commitment just doesn't sit well with more casual viewers. It's hard -- but not impossible -- to imagine sports programming to move more into the nonlinear world. But if that does start to accelerate, the value of live broadcasts will erode even more.
Ariella
1/12/2017 12:01:15 PM
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Re: A modest proposal
@Adi hard to believe there was a time when people had the attention span and patience to follow a 5 day game. How many innings would that be?
Adi
1/12/2017 12:21:27 PM
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Re: A modest proposal
@Ariella - they still do. The format is still used and is still very popular. It has four innings - two for each side. But in cricket, three outs don't make an inning. You have to get 10 "batters" out in each inning.
Ariella
1/12/2017 12:54:04 PM
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Re: A modest proposal
@Adi sounds pretty exhausting. BTW if you have any interest in the American parallel of baseball, I just found this, which has a lot of fun with data visualizations pertaining to Babe Ruth. My favorite is the one that compares his record to the #12.
This is right on point with what I've written about misleading visualizations
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