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Is the American's new TV deal the real reason why UCONN is leaving?
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RE: Is the American's new TV deal the real reason why UCONN is leaving?
(06-26-2019 07:24 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  
(06-26-2019 07:16 AM)GTFletch Wrote:  It’s an expensive proposition that could lead to spending $100,000 on a camera platform or $1 million to run fiber-optic connections from a school’s venues to the control rooms.

Which is what I said ... a lot of these costs are capital costs, like both of those examples, not operating costs. It may cost $1m to run fiber-optic connections from a venue to the control rooms ... but you don't have to do that annually, you have to do that once, so on an annual basis over the life of the contract it's substantially less than $1m.

So getting to a value of a "$2m annual cost" would involve, (1) the annual operating cost, plus (2) a much larger capital cost that has been annualized to a certain amount over the life of the contract.

I don't think it's likely that any infrastructure upgrade UConn would require under the AAC contract would be on the upper end of the range, so I don't think it's likely that the high end of estimates of support costs for the streams applies to UConn.

Yeah, this is what I was getting at the other day. I couldn’t find a way to get to $2M annual cost for what’s required looking at what other schools are doing on plus. If the cost really is $2M per year, you’d hear moaning from MAC, CUSA, SBC, IVY... If those conference schools can produce events meeting ESPN plus standards for much less than $2M per year, then so can AAC schools...unless they’re just really bad at it.
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