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Conference USA network - p23570 - 03-01-2017 12:36 AM
This is interesting. A conference going direct to the consumer. Pricing is shocking.
http://conferenceusa.com/watch/purchase.aspx
RE: Conference USA network - lance99 - 03-01-2017 02:05 AM
They got to get some income somehow. How much will they make? No idea And nobody does, but if this becomes successful, they could pull some $$$ out of this....
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Conference USA network - JHS55 - 03-01-2017 07:59 AM
Very very interesting indeed, when does this go into effect?
RE: Conference USA network - Phlipper33 - 03-01-2017 08:19 AM
I've not done the online sports broadcasts yet, not really sure how these work. Do they have broadcasters for every event, or are they just live feeds? What percentage of the games will get carried? If you could get it to where every team sport was online I think that would be awesome. I could see having students broadcast the events as well, but of course not every school is going to have a broadcasting class where you could get credits for doing so.
I can totally see a future in which all the conferences have something similar to this. I'd definitely consider spending $10 a month to have access to every single SEC baseball game. Be able to watch them live and then keep then online for at least a week? I wouldn't expect every game to always be available, unless these features get a pretty good income. Data storage is getting cheaper, but it's not free. It looks like quite a few games are on the C-USA network, but I'd rather it be closer to 100%. I'm not sure how feasible that is for G5 schools though.
RE: Conference USA network - MinerInWisconsin - 03-01-2017 08:22 AM
This went into affect last summer. Have no idea if it made any money but the quality of production was lacking from several schools. Each school is responsible for it's production and some were far from good and in some cases, UTEP in particular, far from mediocre.
RE: Conference USA network - MWC Tex - 03-01-2017 08:27 AM
The money basically goes to Sidearm Sports who manages the network. It was like that last year too. Unless CUSA takes over the network and puts all non TV games on it, it won't work out for CUSA.
http://www.sidearmsports.com/athletic-websites/
The upfront fee must be to support the hosting cost that Sidearm runs but CUSA is able to keep ad revenue. Only thing is that if there isn't enough content or viewers, there won't be any ad revenue.
CUSA needs to follow the Mountain West. Make the upfront investment for schools to produce most of the events, have the conference pay the hosting fee and offer the network for free to develop viewership so that advertisers will start showing ads on the CUSA DN. Its a process because in the beginning the MW didn't have any ads because there were no statistics to show advertisers it was worth paying money for the MWDN. After 2 years, ads are now showing up more often at least pretty much before you click on a sporting event. As the network develops and school producers gain experience, we are now seeing some ads during timeouts and etc.
It is a process and its one that CUSA, Sunbelt and even the AAC should start developing.
RE: Conference USA network - p23570 - 03-01-2017 09:29 AM
Considering you can get streaming cable with ESPN and other s for around $30 paying $10 for one channel seems outrageous.
Another interesting one is Hawaii, all their FB games are PPV.
UH Football Pay-Per-View Pricing
O'ahu Neighbor Islands
Individual Game $75 $45
Season Package $450 $270
RE: Conference USA network - mturn017 - 03-01-2017 09:37 AM
(03-01-2017 09:29 AM)p23570 Wrote: Considering you can get streaming cable with ESPN and other s for around $30 paying $10 for one channel seems outrageous.
Another interesting one is Hawaii, all their FB games are PPV.
UH Football Pay-Per-View Pricing
O'ahu Neighbor Islands
Individual Game $75 $45
Season Package $450 $270
Not if you're a fan of a CUSA team. It's not really unique. I think other conferences have similar deals for everything not picked up for TV. It just consolidates individual schools streams into one spot so where I did pay Monarch Media for streaming of all ODU home games now I'm paying CUSA and can watch the Monarchs when they play conference games on the road.
That Hawaii deal is ludicrous though.
RE: Conference USA network - arkstfan - 03-01-2017 10:28 AM
Nothing new.
Several conferences have been doing this.
In general they are a miserable experience (ever watch one camera baseball telecast? ever watch a game with no graphics so you get a live view as the camera swings up to show the scoreboard and clock?) and announcing is generally awful.
It will be tough to beat the legendary Arkansas-Little Rock women's soccer game that had no announcer, just a stream from a single camera with an open microphone that happened to pick up the athletic director talking about the tits of a soccer player's mom.
Get content like that and it might be worth the money.
http://deadspin.com/ualr-ad-resigns-after-talking-about-athletes-moms-boobs-1630372448
RE: Conference USA network - mturn017 - 03-01-2017 10:42 AM
(03-01-2017 10:28 AM)arkstfan Wrote: Nothing new.
Several conferences have been doing this.
In general they are a miserable experience (ever watch one camera baseball telecast? ever watch a game with no graphics so you get a live view as the camera swings up to show the scoreboard and clock?) and announcing is generally awful.
It will be tough to beat the legendary Arkansas-Little Rock women's soccer game that had no announcer, just a stream from a single camera with an open microphone that happened to pick up the athletic director talking about the tits of a soccer player's mom.
Get content like that and it might be worth the money.
http://deadspin.com/ualr-ad-resigns-after-talking-about-athletes-moms-boobs-1630372448
It's hit or miss in CUSA as far as quality. Some will have some graphics and at least a score and time display in the corner. Most just use the radio broadcast for audio but if your talking olympic sports that may not exist for some schools. They had a free weekend early on and I tested it out to see if it was worth it. I checked out a Marshall soccer game and it was like you say, no commentary but a hot mic. I didn't get anything as juicy as what the UALR AD was saying but I did hear the AV kid who was running the video bitching about his boss for a few minutes before the sound cut off completely.
RE: Conference USA network - Tom in Lazybrook - 03-01-2017 10:43 AM
(03-01-2017 10:28 AM)arkstfan Wrote: Nothing new.
Several conferences have been doing this.
In general they are a miserable experience (ever watch one camera baseball telecast? ever watch a game with no graphics so you get a live view as the camera swings up to show the scoreboard and clock?) and announcing is generally awful.
It will be tough to beat the legendary Arkansas-Little Rock women's soccer game that had no announcer, just a stream from a single camera with an open microphone that happened to pick up the athletic director talking about the tits of a soccer player's mom.
Get content like that and it might be worth the money.
http://deadspin.com/ualr-ad-resigns-after-talking-about-athletes-moms-boobs-1630372448
And don't forget Aggie Vision! I'm kind of looking forward to seeing my team get that treatment this year. http://www.underdogdynasty.com/2015/7/29/9063307/the-official-aggievision-drinking-game-for-nmsu-and-sun-belt-fans... I fully expect my team to be called Alabama Southern during the game.
RE: Conference USA network - p23570 - 03-01-2017 11:06 AM
(03-01-2017 09:37 AM)mturn017 Wrote:(03-01-2017 09:29 AM)p23570 Wrote: Considering you can get streaming cable with ESPN and other s for around $30 paying $10 for one channel seems outrageous.
Another interesting one is Hawaii, all their FB games are PPV.
UH Football Pay-Per-View Pricing
O'ahu Neighbor Islands
Individual Game $75 $45
Season Package $450 $270
Not if you're a fan of a CUSA team. It's not really unique. I think other conferences have similar deals for everything not picked up for TV. It just consolidates individual schools streams into one spot so where I did pay Monarch Media for streaming of all ODU home games now I'm paying CUSA and can watch the Monarchs when they play conference games on the road.
That Hawaii deal is ludicrous though.
What other conferences have similar deals?
RE: Conference USA network - p23570 - 03-01-2017 11:08 AM
(03-01-2017 10:28 AM)arkstfan Wrote: Nothing new.Link?
Several conferences have been doing this.
In general they are a miserable experience (ever watch one camera baseball telecast? ever watch a game with no graphics so you get a live view as the camera swings up to show the scoreboard and clock?) and announcing is generally awful.
It will be tough to beat the legendary Arkansas-Little Rock women's soccer game that had no announcer, just a stream from a single camera with an open microphone that happened to pick up the athletic director talking about the tits of a soccer player's mom.
Get content like that and it might be worth the money.
http://deadspin.com/ualr-ad-resigns-after-talking-about-athletes-moms-boobs-1630372448
RE: Conference USA network - Kaplony - 03-01-2017 02:14 PM
(03-01-2017 08:19 AM)Phlipper33 Wrote: I've not done the online sports broadcasts yet, not really sure how these work. Do they have broadcasters for every event, or are they just live feeds?
What Clemson used to do for baseball was stream a video that was synced with the radio broadcast. The first year or so it was pretty bad but over the years it had got to where the video quality was pretty good. Sadly it went away with the advent of ACC Network Extra. The two times I've tried to watch a Clemson baseball game on it the video quality was poor.
RE: Conference USA network - Attackcoog - 03-01-2017 02:36 PM
(03-01-2017 02:14 PM)Kaplony Wrote:(03-01-2017 08:19 AM)Phlipper33 Wrote: I've not done the online sports broadcasts yet, not really sure how these work. Do they have broadcasters for every event, or are they just live feeds?
What Clemson used to do for baseball was stream a video that was synced with the radio broadcast. The first year or so it was pretty bad but over the years it had got to where the video quality was pretty good. Sadly it went away with the advent of ACC Network Extra. The two times I've tried to watch a Clemson baseball game on it the video quality was poor.
Honestly---HD cameras are cheap. There is really no reason for crappy quality video anymore. That said, there's really no reason for every school not upgrading to ESPN-3 quality equipment to ready themselves for the future.
RE: Conference USA network - arkstfan - 03-01-2017 03:25 PM
(03-01-2017 11:08 AM)p23570 Wrote:http://www.atlantic10.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?&catid=0&db_oem_id=31600&utm_source=31600&utm_medium=portal&utm_campaign=trafficpattern&DB_OEM_ID=31600(03-01-2017 10:28 AM)arkstfan Wrote: Nothing new.Link?
Several conferences have been doing this.
In general they are a miserable experience (ever watch one camera baseball telecast? ever watch a game with no graphics so you get a live view as the camera swings up to show the scoreboard and clock?) and announcing is generally awful.
It will be tough to beat the legendary Arkansas-Little Rock women's soccer game that had no announcer, just a stream from a single camera with an open microphone that happened to pick up the athletic director talking about the tits of a soccer player's mom.
Get content like that and it might be worth the money.
http://deadspin.com/ualr-ad-resigns-after-talking-about-athletes-moms-boobs-1630372448
http://www.maacsports.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=17400?DB_OEM_ID=17400
http://www.necfrontrow.com/
http://www.americaeast.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=14000
http://southlanddigitalnetwork.com/
RE: Conference USA network - p23570 - 03-01-2017 03:33 PM
(03-01-2017 03:25 PM)arkstfan Wrote:(03-01-2017 11:08 AM)p23570 Wrote:http://www.atlantic10.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?&catid=0&db_oem_id=31600&utm_source=31600&utm_medium=portal&utm_campaign=trafficpattern&DB_OEM_ID=31600(03-01-2017 10:28 AM)arkstfan Wrote: Nothing new.Link?
Several conferences have been doing this.
In general they are a miserable experience (ever watch one camera baseball telecast? ever watch a game with no graphics so you get a live view as the camera swings up to show the scoreboard and clock?) and announcing is generally awful.
It will be tough to beat the legendary Arkansas-Little Rock women's soccer game that had no announcer, just a stream from a single camera with an open microphone that happened to pick up the athletic director talking about the tits of a soccer player's mom.
Get content like that and it might be worth the money.
http://deadspin.com/ualr-ad-resigns-after-talking-about-athletes-moms-boobs-1630372448
http://www.maacsports.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=17400?DB_OEM_ID=17400
http://www.necfrontrow.com/
http://www.americaeast.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=14000
http://southlanddigitalnetwork.com/
Interesting and somewhat similar but not FBS football conferences.
That must be for diehard fans and parents/grandparents who watch the kids play as I doubt the average college fan is going to fork over about $10 a month for that content from many conferences.
Still interesting though. I could almost see individual schools doing this in the p-5 as they probably have about the same amount of as as these low level conferences combined.
I know ISU has similar.
http://www.cyclones.com/watch/purchase.aspx#register
RE: Conference USA network - arkstfan - 03-01-2017 03:43 PM
(03-01-2017 03:33 PM)p23570 Wrote:(03-01-2017 03:25 PM)arkstfan Wrote:(03-01-2017 11:08 AM)p23570 Wrote:http://www.atlantic10.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?&catid=0&db_oem_id=31600&utm_source=31600&utm_medium=portal&utm_campaign=trafficpattern&DB_OEM_ID=31600(03-01-2017 10:28 AM)arkstfan Wrote: Nothing new.Link?
Several conferences have been doing this.
In general they are a miserable experience (ever watch one camera baseball telecast? ever watch a game with no graphics so you get a live view as the camera swings up to show the scoreboard and clock?) and announcing is generally awful.
It will be tough to beat the legendary Arkansas-Little Rock women's soccer game that had no announcer, just a stream from a single camera with an open microphone that happened to pick up the athletic director talking about the tits of a soccer player's mom.
Get content like that and it might be worth the money.
http://deadspin.com/ualr-ad-resigns-after-talking-about-athletes-moms-boobs-1630372448
http://www.maacsports.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=17400?DB_OEM_ID=17400
http://www.necfrontrow.com/
http://www.americaeast.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=14000
http://southlanddigitalnetwork.com/
Interesting and somewhat similar but not FBS football conferences.
That must be for diehard fans and parents/grandparents who watch the kids play as I doubt the average college fan is going to fork over about $10 a month for that content from many conferences.
Still interesting though. I could almost see individual schools doing this in the p-5 as they probably have about the same amount of as as these low level conferences combined.
I know ISU has similar.
http://www.cyclones.com/watch/purchase.aspx#register
SEC doesn't have it because they drop pretty much all of the stuff not taken onto ESPN3.
Sun Belt has been moving more content over to ESPN3 off the school streaming though not on the SEC scale.
RE: Conference USA network - Native Georgian - 03-01-2017 09:04 PM
(03-01-2017 08:22 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote: This went into affect last summer. Have no idea if it made any money but the quality of production was lacking from several schools. Each school is responsible for it's production and some were far from good and in some cases, UTEP in particular, far from mediocre.That, at least, is a problem that can be quickly fixed if the university honestly wants to fix it.
RE: Conference USA network - p23570 - 03-01-2017 09:51 PM
(03-01-2017 09:04 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:(03-01-2017 08:22 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote: This went into affect last summer. Have no idea if it made any money but the quality of production was lacking from several schools. Each school is responsible for it's production and some were far from good and in some cases, UTEP in particular, far from mediocre.That, at least, is a problem that can be quickly fixed if the university honestly wants to fix it.
I thought he was saying UTEP had good production.