(06-30-2015 12:53 AM)Wedge Wrote: Fox has no coherent vision for FS1/FS2, no effective plan for drawing viewers in to watch the channels regularly, and now we see that they give up easily and don't have the persistence to keep investing the money needed to build the channels as a viable alternative to any ESPN channels.
The next question is, how long will it be until Fox throws in the towel and sells FS1 and FS2? Another year? Two years, max?
Total agreement.
I mainly have been keeping an eye on the Fox effort because they could be a big boost to the G5 down the road.
They seem to have no idea at all of what they want to do with FS2 other than take up space on the channel guide at least NBC's vision for Universal Sports is understandable even if I don't like it.
Before the last round of bowl talks they publicly said they wanted to work with anyone looking to start a bowl and to try to get existing bowls. Meetings come and go and they sign zero existing bowls and zero new bowls. CBS Sports was the only one to take a new a game.
Little Rock and Austin from what I've heard couldn't get anyone at Fox to talk to them. A few games that had hoped to move to better dates with Fox couldn't get anything firm from them.
It's like they picked a strategy for bowls and within two weeks ditched it.
If they don't get a decent piece of the Big 10, they will have one notable property east of Ames, IA, the WVU Mountaineers. No NFL, no NBA, no NHL. They will have a piece of MLB but regular season games tend to not be a significant draw.
They've locked in 7 CUSA games for FS1 (more can be added, they have an 8th but it is under the Big XII contract) but there is no obvious strategy. One Sunday game, one Thursday game, three Friday games in two different time slots, two Saturday games under the contract in different time slots.