(11-09-2017 02:27 PM)solohawks Wrote:  

(11-09-2017 12:53 PM)sctvman Wrote:  CofC’s not broadcasting any local TV games this year either. They were losing money on the telecasts. Also, most of the ads were for CofC themselves, so they weren’t selling many ads. It worked well 5 years ago when cordcutting was not a thing, but now so many teams have TV like facilities that our advantage was lost.

Also, the TV games hurt attendance a little bit. Last year our highest attendance was 4,631 for the UNCW game, still almost 500 short of a sellout. Most of our games were in the 3-4K range.

Was the Charleston TV station charging for air time? I just don't understand how a local TV station struggling for quality programing wouldn't snap up the opportunity to have quality sports programming that would appeal to the market, even if they give CoC the airtime for free and the school and the station split the ad money

I believe they were. MyTV made them move their start time to 7:30 from 7 because they didn’t want their Big Bang Theory reruns to be preempted. They still broadcast high school games on Friday nights, but Sinclair owns the station, so its a mandate from them.

The old AD (Joe Hull) started that. The new AD made this change.