As CUSA is going through TV negotiations and probably working on the digital rights, I was wondering what is the American Conference plans for the digital network?

Does the American own and operate it? Has Aresco stated any plans about it? I was looking on the site and was wondering why there are so few games upcoming to be shown on the ADN?

http://www.theamerican.org/watch/?Archive=2131

The MW on the other hand owns and operates it digital network and uses Livestream as the platform and shows practically every game that is not televised. (right now every baseball, softball and other spring sport is being shown). Granted each school produces the game so not everything is polished but...at least you can view the game.

http://www.themw.com/page/watch-live

Right now there are several events being shown right now and you can see how many future events are scheduled.

While neither one of us is going to be getting any big TV contract these seems to be the way for the G5 conferences to make additional revenue in addition to any TV contract that either one of us would be getting.

I'd like to be able to watch some games on your digital network but the choices it seems right now are very few.

I don't know what's going on with AAC digital and I'm not a fan of conference networks. But I am curious about a few things...Did the MWC get this as a result of CBS dropping the MTN network? Also, are the MWC schools making $ off this or does all the money go to CBS? I've heard Aresco is one of the brains behind the creation of the MTN (when he worked for CBS) so Im assuming he thinks an AAC network is a good thing... It would be alright for baseball...Cheers!

(04-08-2016 05:19 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  I don't know what's going on with AAC digital and I'm not a fan of conference networks. But I am curious about a few things...Did the MWC get this as a result of CBS dropping the MTN network? Also, are the MWC schools making $ off this or does all the money go to CBS? I've heard Aresco is one of the brains behind the creation of the MTN (when he worked for CBS) so Im assuming he thinks an AAC network is a good thing... It would be alright for baseball...Cheers!

To answer your questions.
The MW got the MWDN on its own. CBS dropping the Mtn had nothing to do with getting the MWDN.

As for the $$, the MW is starting to turn a financial gain after 3 years. Now that the network has been able to show metrics for the past 3 years, the MW is getting money from advertisers. (One thing I did find out is that just because you can show videos, no companies are going to pay or want to show their ads unless there is threshold of viewers).
The conference invested over $1 million to give each school HD cameras and supporting equipment to produce and show every home game. No money goes to CBS. Any financial gain will split equally I believe.

(04-08-2016 04:40 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  As CUSA is going through TV negotiations and probably working on the digital rights, I was wondering what is the American Conference plans for the digital network?

Does the American own and operate it? Has Aresco stated any plans about it? I was looking on the site and was wondering why there are so few games upcoming to be shown on the ADN?

http://www.theamerican.org/watch/?Archive=2131

The MW on the other hand owns and operates it digital network and uses Livestream as the platform and shows practically every game that is not televised. (right now every baseball, softball and other spring sport is being shown). Granted each school produces the game so not everything is polished but...at least you can view the game.

http://www.themw.com/page/watch-live

Right now there are several events being shown right now and you can see how many future events are scheduled.

While neither one of us is going to be getting any big TV contract these seems to be the way for the G5 conferences to make additional revenue in addition to any TV contract that either one of us would be getting.

I'd like to be able to watch some games on your digital network but the choices it seems right now are very few.

to answer your question the aac has zero push or interest in a digital network.. the ADN i hoestly just somewhere we see as a place to put our non revenue sports so fans can watch it

your statements are also inherently wrong..you are basically asking what the AAC is doing with its digital network since its the only real way for g5 to make extra money since we wont be getting a contract...when that is the complete opposite of the mentality of the AAC... we are pushing for a major tv contract...no where near the P5 level but we are almost guaranteed a huge pay increase in a few years

plus unlike the other G4 tv providers have shown hevy interest in our content, ASN was even willing to pick our our tier 4 basketball content versus horrifc teams ..we are agetting to the point where 95-97% of every revenue sports no matter how good or bad will be on tv somewhere..there isnt a need for a digital network

I cant wait for our new tv deal.

We have a digital network?

(04-09-2016 03:37 AM)owlfan2272 Wrote:  We have a digital network?

yup...its basically the equivalent to a modern day UHF channel lol

(04-08-2016 04:40 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  As CUSA is going through TV negotiations and probably working on the digital rights, I was wondering what is the American Conference plans for the digital network?

Does the American own and operate it? Has Aresco stated any plans about it? I was looking on the site and was wondering why there are so few games upcoming to be shown on the ADN?

http://www.theamerican.org/watch/?Archive=2131

The MW on the other hand owns and operates it digital network and uses Livestream as the platform and shows practically every game that is not televised. (right now every baseball, softball and other spring sport is being shown). Granted each school produces the game so not everything is polished but...at least you can view the game.

http://www.themw.com/page/watch-live

Right now there are several events being shown right now and you can see how many future events are scheduled.

While neither one of us is going to be getting any big TV contract these seems to be the way for the G5 conferences to make additional revenue in addition to any TV contract that either one of us would be getting.

I'd like to be able to watch some games on your digital network but the choices it seems right now are very few.

It's a sold platform that does a nice looking broadcast. Unfortunately, it's very under utilized. It would be an excellent platform for several of the non-revenue sports like softball, soccer, volleyball, and baseball---but only a handful of games are on the channel. It's very under utilized opinion my opinion. If it were up to me, I'd standardize the equipment used at AAC schools and steam the broadcsts produced by the schools. I'd also create apps for all the major streaming platforms (Roku, Appletv, Chromecast, Android, XBox, etc). We already have an American Digital Network app for Roku---but not for any other platform. Doing that would make he network easy to access and easy to stream to a big screen. Making these games easily accessible would give the AAC a nice advantage in recruiting for theses sports.

I have the app on roku and the content is well produced. There is not enough of it. They never show Ucf content so I don't watch it. I would watch our softball volleyball etc. If you don't think we weren't looking to develop it just look at Tulanes football stadium setup. It's horrible for tv. Anyway personally I think it was a fallback if we couldn't get any meaningful traction on the contract.

(04-08-2016 04:40 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  As CUSA is going through TV negotiations and probably working on the digital rights, I was wondering what is the American Conference plans for the digital network?

Does the American own and operate it? Has Aresco stated any plans about it? I was looking on the site and was wondering why there are so few games upcoming to be shown on the ADN?

http://www.theamerican.org/watch/?Archive=2131

The MW on the other hand owns and operates it digital network and uses Livestream as the platform and shows practically every game that is not televised. (right now every baseball, softball and other spring sport is being shown). Granted each school produces the game so not everything is polished but...at least you can view the game.

http://www.themw.com/page/watch-live

Right now there are several events being shown right now and you can see how many future events are scheduled.

While neither one of us is going to be getting any big TV contract these seems to be the way for the G5 conferences to make additional revenue in addition to any TV contract that either one of us would be getting.

I'd like to be able to watch some games on your digital network but the choices it seems right now are very few.

Mountain West Network appears to be available on Roku via Livestream app.

(04-09-2016 12:17 PM)panama Wrote:  

(04-08-2016 04:40 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  As CUSA is going through TV negotiations and probably working on the digital rights, I was wondering what is the American Conference plans for the digital network?

Does the American own and operate it? Has Aresco stated any plans about it? I was looking on the site and was wondering why there are so few games upcoming to be shown on the ADN?

http://www.theamerican.org/watch/?Archive=2131

The MW on the other hand owns and operates it digital network and uses Livestream as the platform and shows practically every game that is not televised. (right now every baseball, softball and other spring sport is being shown). Granted each school produces the game so not everything is polished but...at least you can view the game.

http://www.themw.com/page/watch-live

Right now there are several events being shown right now and you can see how many future events are scheduled.

While neither one of us is going to be getting any big TV contract these seems to be the way for the G5 conferences to make additional revenue in addition to any TV contract that either one of us would be getting.

I'd like to be able to watch some games on your digital network but the choices it seems right now are very few.

Mountain West Network appears to be available on Roku via Livestream app.

Yes and each school has a sub-account on livestream so you can search by each school also. In addition, the MW has app for Android and iOS.

I watch 90% of my TV off Roku so that is cool.

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This interview with the ODU AD makes it sound like he believes Digital Networks could soon become the primary way for many G5's to get exposure in football and basketball---not just non-revenue sports. I get the impression that he may very well be preparing his fans for a TV deal with very limited exposure via traditional television outlets. Im thinking the new CUSA deal will rely fairly heavily on the digital element to get their fans access to their games. He says the top 5 or 6 conferneces in football will be ok and the top 8-10 in basketball will be ok--but the other conferences are going to start having trouble getting on traditional TV. The relevant comments begin a bit after the 23 minute mark of the interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sWIHdZKYE4

(04-09-2016 08:08 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  This interview with the ODU AD makes it sound like he believes Digital Networks could soon become the primary way for many G5's to get exposure in football and basketball---not just non-revenue sports. I get the impression that he may very well be preparing his fans for a TV deal with very limited exposure via traditional television outlets. Im thinking the new CUSA deal will rely fairly heavily on the digital element to get their fans access to their games. He says the top 5 or 6 conferneces in football will be ok and the top 8-10 in basketball will be ok--but the other conferences are going to start having trouble getting on traditional TV. The relevant comments begin a bit after the 23 minute mark of the interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sWIHdZKYE4

interesting you mention ODU....they will be in the AAC shortly

(04-10-2016 07:26 AM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(04-09-2016 08:08 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  This interview with the ODU AD makes it sound like he believes Digital Networks could soon become the primary way for many G5's to get exposure in football and basketball---not just non-revenue sports. I get the impression that he may very well be preparing his fans for a TV deal with very limited exposure via traditional television outlets. Im thinking the new CUSA deal will rely fairly heavily on the digital element to get their fans access to their games. He says the top 5 or 6 conferneces in football will be ok and the top 8-10 in basketball will be ok--but the other conferences are going to start having trouble getting on traditional TV. The relevant comments begin a bit after the 23 minute mark of the interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sWIHdZKYE4

interesting you mention ODU....they will be in the AAC shortly

If the AAC lost some schools, I think ODU would be a good choice for addition.

(04-10-2016 07:26 AM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(04-09-2016 08:08 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  This interview with the ODU AD makes it sound like he believes Digital Networks could soon become the primary way for many G5's to get exposure in football and basketball---not just non-revenue sports. I get the impression that he may very well be preparing his fans for a TV deal with very limited exposure via traditional television outlets. Im thinking the new CUSA deal will rely fairly heavily on the digital element to get their fans access to their games. He says the top 5 or 6 conferneces in football will be ok and the top 8-10 in basketball will be ok--but the other conferences are going to start having trouble getting on traditional TV. The relevant comments begin a bit after the 23 minute mark of the interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sWIHdZKYE4

interesting you mention ODU....they will be in the AAC shortly

TRAITOR! HOW DARE YOU ABANDON THE NIU HYPE TRAIN!!!

these will bad the saddest "choo choo!"s ever...

choo


choo

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(04-10-2016 10:16 AM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(04-10-2016 07:26 AM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(04-09-2016 08:08 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  This interview with the ODU AD makes it sound like he believes Digital Networks could soon become the primary way for many G5's to get exposure in football and basketball---not just non-revenue sports. I get the impression that he may very well be preparing his fans for a TV deal with very limited exposure via traditional television outlets. Im thinking the new CUSA deal will rely fairly heavily on the digital element to get their fans access to their games. He says the top 5 or 6 conferneces in football will be ok and the top 8-10 in basketball will be ok--but the other conferences are going to start having trouble getting on traditional TV. The relevant comments begin a bit after the 23 minute mark of the interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sWIHdZKYE4

interesting you mention ODU....they will be in the AAC shortly

TRAITOR! HOW DARE YOU ABANDON THE NIU HYPE TRAIN!!!

these will bad the saddest "choo choo!"s ever...

choo


choo

=*(

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I heard NIU is moving to wherever ODU is

(04-10-2016 10:16 AM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(04-10-2016 07:26 AM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(04-09-2016 08:08 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  This interview with the ODU AD makes it sound like he believes Digital Networks could soon become the primary way for many G5's to get exposure in football and basketball---not just non-revenue sports. I get the impression that he may very well be preparing his fans for a TV deal with very limited exposure via traditional television outlets. Im thinking the new CUSA deal will rely fairly heavily on the digital element to get their fans access to their games. He says the top 5 or 6 conferneces in football will be ok and the top 8-10 in basketball will be ok--but the other conferences are going to start having trouble getting on traditional TV. The relevant comments begin a bit after the 23 minute mark of the interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sWIHdZKYE4

interesting you mention ODU....they will be in the AAC shortly

TRAITOR! HOW DARE YOU ABANDON THE NIU HYPE TRAIN!!!

these will bad the saddest "choo choo!"s ever...

choo


choo

=*(

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I guess NIU will have to changer their name to now ignored university.