(11-03-2018 12:40 PM)fishpro1098 Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 10:26 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 08:15 AM)STL_Wave Wrote:  Outside of ESPN, NBC seems the only one that can keep eyeballs on the league. Does anyone think they'd be ready with the big bucks or theyre happy with their Premier League inventory?

Just for grins, I checked the NBC schedule for today. NBC has Premier Soccer starting an hour and half (1:30pm ET) into the early noon ET football window. In the 3:30pm ET window, NBC has horse racing. In the evening, NBC is running 2 back to back repeats of Dateline from 2 years ago in the 7pm and 8pm slots. At 9pm NBC has a rerun of Saturday Night Live from 2014.

NBC-Sports has NASCAR practice runs in the early noon ET college football window. They have a NASCAR race in the afternoon 3:30ET window. The early evening window for NBC-Sports has college hockey and gymnastics is taking up the late evening window.

So yes—-I think NBC will be a bidder.

But will they? It looks like they are programming on the cheap with second rate, second interest programming. I mean soccer? Really? I'd rather just take a sleeping pill and doze off. NASCAR warm-ups? You've got to be kidding me. Outside of Notre Dame they are not a player in college football. $8 million per 12 teams per year seems a bit rich for their blood if you ask me. They are not a player because unless it is cheap (AAC 5 years ago), they won't be playing. I see us back at ESPN with a $4 million per year contract.

They bid before in 2013.....and at that time nobody thought we would attract as many viewers as we are drawing. As for NBC being bargain hunters—-I don’t see that as an issue since we are a relative bargain.

NBC pays $440 million a year for the rights to 19 Xfinity NASCAR races and $160 million a year for the US rights to Premier Soccer. Seems to me a 10 million a team contract ($120 million a year deal) would be right in their value shopper sweet spot. However, it probably would not even cost them that much because they don’t need the ENTIRE AAC package. A 20-25 game package would probably be perfect for NBC. A 30-35 game package is all ESPN really needs. So, if each one pays 4-5 million a team, then NBC and ESPN are each only paying a very budget savy $60 million a year for a product producing ratings similar to Preimier Soccer or mid/lower tier P5’s. That’s a very economical bang for the buck bargain.

(11-03-2018 12:40 PM)fishpro1098 Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 10:26 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 08:15 AM)STL_Wave Wrote:  Outside of ESPN, NBC seems the only one that can keep eyeballs on the league. Does anyone think they'd be ready with the big bucks or theyre happy with their Premier League inventory?

Just for grins, I checked the NBC schedule for today. NBC has Premier Soccer starting an hour and half (1:30pm ET) into the early noon ET football window. In the 3:30pm ET window, NBC has horse racing. In the evening, NBC is running 2 back to back repeats of Dateline from 2 years ago in the 7pm and 8pm slots. At 9pm NBC has a rerun of Saturday Night Live from 2014.

NBC-Sports has NASCAR practice runs in the early noon ET college football window. They have a NASCAR race in the afternoon 3:30ET window. The early evening window for NBC-Sports has college hockey and gymnastics is taking up the late evening window.

So yes—-I think NBC will be a bidder.

But will they? It looks like they are programming on the cheap with second rate, second interest programming. I mean soccer? Really? I'd rather just take a sleeping pill and doze off. NASCAR warm-ups? You've got to be kidding me. Outside of Notre Dame they are not a player in college football. $8 million per 12 teams per year seems a bit rich for their blood if you ask me. They are not a player because unless it is cheap (AAC 5 years ago), they won't be playing. I see us back at ESPN with a $4 million per year contract.

they are paying $166m a year for that cheap, second rate programming the premier league. if the AAC got $166m a year for TV rights everyone of us would happy.

(11-03-2018 02:30 PM)Meatwad Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 12:40 PM)fishpro1098 Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 10:26 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 08:15 AM)STL_Wave Wrote:  Outside of ESPN, NBC seems the only one that can keep eyeballs on the league. Does anyone think they'd be ready with the big bucks or theyre happy with their Premier League inventory?

Just for grins, I checked the NBC schedule for today. NBC has Premier Soccer starting an hour and half (1:30pm ET) into the early noon ET football window. In the 3:30pm ET window, NBC has horse racing. In the evening, NBC is running 2 back to back repeats of Dateline from 2 years ago in the 7pm and 8pm slots. At 9pm NBC has a rerun of Saturday Night Live from 2014.

NBC-Sports has NASCAR practice runs in the early noon ET college football window. They have a NASCAR race in the afternoon 3:30ET window. The early evening window for NBC-Sports has college hockey and gymnastics is taking up the late evening window.

So yes—-I think NBC will be a bidder.

But will they? It looks like they are programming on the cheap with second rate, second interest programming. I mean soccer? Really? I'd rather just take a sleeping pill and doze off. NASCAR warm-ups? You've got to be kidding me. Outside of Notre Dame they are not a player in college football. $8 million per 12 teams per year seems a bit rich for their blood if you ask me. They are not a player because unless it is cheap (AAC 5 years ago), they won't be playing. I see us back at ESPN with a $4 million per year contract.

they are paying $166m a year for that cheap, second rate programming the premier league. if the AAC got $166m a year for TV rights everyone of us would happy.

A fool and his money...

Watch the games on TV and open the ESPN app. I think we get a double count.

(11-03-2018 03:52 PM)fishpro1098 Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 02:30 PM)Meatwad Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 12:40 PM)fishpro1098 Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 10:26 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 08:15 AM)STL_Wave Wrote:  Outside of ESPN, NBC seems the only one that can keep eyeballs on the league. Does anyone think they'd be ready with the big bucks or theyre happy with their Premier League inventory?

Just for grins, I checked the NBC schedule for today. NBC has Premier Soccer starting an hour and half (1:30pm ET) into the early noon ET football window. In the 3:30pm ET window, NBC has horse racing. In the evening, NBC is running 2 back to back repeats of Dateline from 2 years ago in the 7pm and 8pm slots. At 9pm NBC has a rerun of Saturday Night Live from 2014.

NBC-Sports has NASCAR practice runs in the early noon ET college football window. They have a NASCAR race in the afternoon 3:30ET window. The early evening window for NBC-Sports has college hockey and gymnastics is taking up the late evening window.

So yes—-I think NBC will be a bidder.

But will they? It looks like they are programming on the cheap with second rate, second interest programming. I mean soccer? Really? I'd rather just take a sleeping pill and doze off. NASCAR warm-ups? You've got to be kidding me. Outside of Notre Dame they are not a player in college football. $8 million per 12 teams per year seems a bit rich for their blood if you ask me. They are not a player because unless it is cheap (AAC 5 years ago), they won't be playing. I see us back at ESPN with a $4 million per year contract.

they are paying $166m a year for that cheap, second rate programming the premier league. if the AAC got $166m a year for TV rights everyone of us would happy.

A fool and his money...

then you're just eating your own argument that nbc is cheap. so now they're wasteful? just the kind of network we need to be in business with then.

(11-03-2018 03:55 PM)Meatwad Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 03:52 PM)fishpro1098 Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 02:30 PM)Meatwad Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 12:40 PM)fishpro1098 Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 10:26 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Just for grins, I checked the NBC schedule for today. NBC has Premier Soccer starting an hour and half (1:30pm ET) into the early noon ET football window. In the 3:30pm ET window, NBC has horse racing. In the evening, NBC is running 2 back to back repeats of Dateline from 2 years ago in the 7pm and 8pm slots. At 9pm NBC has a rerun of Saturday Night Live from 2014.

NBC-Sports has NASCAR practice runs in the early noon ET college football window. They have a NASCAR race in the afternoon 3:30ET window. The early evening window for NBC-Sports has college hockey and gymnastics is taking up the late evening window.

So yes—-I think NBC will be a bidder.

But will they? It looks like they are programming on the cheap with second rate, second interest programming. I mean soccer? Really? I'd rather just take a sleeping pill and doze off. NASCAR warm-ups? You've got to be kidding me. Outside of Notre Dame they are not a player in college football. $8 million per 12 teams per year seems a bit rich for their blood if you ask me. They are not a player because unless it is cheap (AAC 5 years ago), they won't be playing. I see us back at ESPN with a $4 million per year contract.

they are paying $166m a year for that cheap, second rate programming the premier league. if the AAC got $166m a year for TV rights everyone of us would happy.

A fool and his money...

then you're just eating your own argument that nbc is cheap. so now they're wasteful? just the kind of network we need to be in business with then.

Not wasteful. Stupid. Well maybe wasteful, too. I don't see them being serious with us.