(06-03-2015 02:30 PM)monarx Wrote: I wish CUSA would just do their own network like the SEC or Big10, but instead of being on cable, put it all online? Take the individual schools online feeds and run them on the "CUSA Network". If a TV network wants some games then sell them individually, but keep them online too. I know CUSA does some games, but its only a select few. If schools would increase the quality of their individual web broadcasts that could be something cool. I'd pay a few hundred bucks to have access to a quality broadcast of every CUSA game. Basketball, football, baseball, soccer etc. Sell advertising on it for additional revenue. Unless it severely cut into the TV money, it seems it would work well. The P5s are making a ton of money on their networks.
FS2 receives a reported 16 cents per month per subscriber. TruTV 10 cents, CBS Sports and MLB Network 25 cents.
The Pac-12 Network after two years is available in 11 million homes.
Let's say a G5 Network hits that (the MTN was always said to be in 7 to 10 million homes) a twenty cent carriage fee would produce $26.4 million per month.
If the channel is high definition, you will pay roughly $1 million to lease the transponder (standard def could cut that by 75%). You will need to lease another transponder to get the signal from the stadium to the studio and production facility but you will lease that as needed, figure might get away with a quarter of million.
Lease a studio and production facility, need of course all the electronic goodies.
Staffing you have to have a several person broadcast engineering staff to cover all your live work and might be able to use automation over night and early morning. Unless you are doing a lot of canned stuff need on-air studio people.
Lease crews and production trucks for all live events, have to hire on air people.
Hire a sales staff. Phones, lots of electricity involved.
At 20 cents you might get close to the neighborhood of what the current contract brings in. If you settle for a dime probably losing money.
But for all that, it is in 11 million homes vs 45 million for FS2