(01-11-2019 12:04 PM)dbackjon Wrote: (01-11-2019 10:28 AM)ccd494 Wrote: (01-10-2019 09:05 PM)SoCalBobcat78 Wrote: The WAC has teams in the following markets:
#2 Los Angeles
#3 Chicago
#12 Phoenix
#14 Seattle
#31 Kansas City
#33 Salt Lake City
Is the number next to Los Angeles the number of people in Los Angeles who care about the WAC?
Being a tiny school in a big market isn't a positive. No one is starting a WAC TV network. No one is subscribing to some far flung cable channel to watch WAC (or Big Sky) basketball. Market sizes for small conferences don't matter.
Bingo! GCU gets some play in the Phoenix market SOLELY because of the Majerle/Colangelo connection. Once those are gone, goodbye coverage.
No one gives a damn in SLC about UVU. Seattle U gets a little play in Seattle because of history, but not much. CBU? Zero coverage. Chicago State? Zero.
There was a 50 word paragraph on the CBU loss last night at Kansas City to UMKC in the Los Angeles Times this morning. The same for the UCI and Pepperdine games from last night. CBU gets coverage in the Press Enterprise, which covers Inland Empire news and sports. The Press Enterprise is part of the Southern California News Group, which owns the Press Enterprise, Orange County Register, Los Angeles Daily News and eight other Southern California newspapers. So an article on CBU can appear in all 11 SCNG newspapers.
You have to win to get serious attention. There is just too much sports to cover. In today's LA Times, for example, there are three articles on the Rams, two on the Chargers, two on the Clippers game last night, one article on the UCLA overtime win at Oregon last night, one on the USC overtime loss at Oregon State last night and one article on the LA Kings loss at home last night.
There are also two articles on the Angels, one on the Lakers, a short article on tonight's Ducks game in Anaheim and an article on high school sports in the area. Surprisingly, there was no articles on the Dodgers or the two professional Soccer teams.
The point is, you get coverage in LA, but to get real coverage, you have to make noise. You have to win, because you are up against too much competition.
To ccd494, people don't really watch the Pac-12 network in Southern California. Or the Big Ten or SEC Network. Why would anyone want a WAC Network?