09-23-2017, 01:20 AM
From Jon Wilner at the Mercury News...
PAC 12 Network ratings solid for football but poor for Olympic sports
Some of these problems originate with the fact that there are 6 regional feeds instead of just one national channel. It would be less expensive that way and probably get better distribution at that.
I know PAC folks like to say that this media company has been an investment and is not merely a money-making enterprise. Well, that sounds good and all, but if business ventures aren't making money then at the end of the day that's just a crappy investment.
This experiment seems to have failed. If I'm the PAC then I'm starting with a radical reorganization of how this network operates.
Forget content additions at this point, no school outside of the G5 is going to want in on this deal unless a few Big 12 leftovers simply have no place else to go.
***Also of note, the Utah/Arizona game tonight just ended a little after 11PM local time. The attendance was about 36K. Now maybe a Friday night game isn't going to get quite the exposure a Saturday night game might get for various reasons, but the media deal the PAC has right now just plain sucks. If you're going to be forced to kick off late on a Friday night just so you can get a game on FS1 then you should at least be getting paid pretty good to do it. That is not the case.
PAC 12 Network ratings solid for football but poor for Olympic sports
Some of these problems originate with the fact that there are 6 regional feeds instead of just one national channel. It would be less expensive that way and probably get better distribution at that.
I know PAC folks like to say that this media company has been an investment and is not merely a money-making enterprise. Well, that sounds good and all, but if business ventures aren't making money then at the end of the day that's just a crappy investment.
This experiment seems to have failed. If I'm the PAC then I'm starting with a radical reorganization of how this network operates.
Forget content additions at this point, no school outside of the G5 is going to want in on this deal unless a few Big 12 leftovers simply have no place else to go.
***Also of note, the Utah/Arizona game tonight just ended a little after 11PM local time. The attendance was about 36K. Now maybe a Friday night game isn't going to get quite the exposure a Saturday night game might get for various reasons, but the media deal the PAC has right now just plain sucks. If you're going to be forced to kick off late on a Friday night just so you can get a game on FS1 then you should at least be getting paid pretty good to do it. That is not the case.