Televised Games

[fanof71]

Cost is also a factor (I think it's roughly 10K per game, but I'll check and report back.)

10k to produce sounds right...now monitize that to between 4 and 6 times to calculate commercial sales divided by the number of commercial availability, there's your answer as to why possibly more games arent done. Sat time is expensive, crew and tech guys aren't cheap. $40,000 revenue target, divided by 74 avails/:30 second commercials (?) = $540 a commercial..ain't happening in this market. And that's just my estimate, I'll reserve the right to be wrong...

[LouisianaB]

10k to produce sounds right...now monitize that to between 4 and 6 times to calculate commercial sales divided by the number of commercial availability, there's your answer as to why possibly more games arent done. Sat time is expensive, crew and tech guys aren't cheap. $40,000 revenue target, divided by 74 avails/:30 second commercials (?) = $540 a commercial..ain't happening in this market. And that's just my estimate, I'll reserve the right to be wrong...

There is no way a game cost $10k to produce and steam on ESPN+. I respect the hell out of Jay, but I can’t buy that.

For what it’s worth, Joel told me last year the baseball broadcasts involve 6 students and 2 freelancers, as well as himself. There’s also two commentators (which honestly, I think are redundant to baseball. There are schools that use radio for stream. But I’ll defer to them for this)

[KajunKrazy]

Who televises all baseball games?

(When both baseball and softball are at home, you gotta make a choice.)

That really shouldn’t be choice. Pretty sure last weekend it was 2-1 soft ball. Should at least go the other way around if your looking for ratings.

[KajunKrazy]

I ran the numbers cause I have too much time on my hands. Most schools have the future scheduled for broadcast, but Georgia Southern and South Alabama (just SB not scheduled) do not (for both BB and SB). I looked at total number of games broadcasted versus not. I also looked at conflicts (whether it was not broadcasted because something else was being broadcasted on same date).

All 12 schools broadcast baseball games, while 7/10 broadcast softball (South Alabama, Georgia State, and App State do not broadcast softball). We are about 6 of 12 in baseball and 4 of 10 in softball.

Baseball (games broadcasted/total games)
1. Coastal 30/30 (all)
2. Georgia Southern 30/30 (all)
3. Troy 25/29 (four non-broadcasted were during basketball season)
4. South Alabama 10/12 (both non-broadcasted games were conflicts with MBB or WBB; schedule does not have TV information for future games)
5. App State 17/22 (no conflicts)
6. Louisiana 18/28 (7 with no conflicts, 3 with conflicts)
7. Texas State 21/33 (all 12 non-broadcasted games are conflicts)
8. Little Rock 18/32 (1 conflict, 13 non-conflict)
9. Arkansas State 15/27 (all 12 with no conflicts)
10. UTA 11/27 (7 games conflicted, 9 non-conflicted)
11. ULM 9/27 (2 conflicts, 16 non-conflicts)
12. Georgia State 9/31 (all 22 with no conflicts)

Softball (games broadcasted/total games)
1. Georgia Southern 16/16 (all)
2. Texas State 16/19 (1 conflict, 2 non-conflict)
3. Coastal 22/32 (8 conflicts, 2 non-conflict)
4. Louisiana 17/26 (6 conflict, 3 non-conflict)
5. Troy 16/26 (4 conflict, 6 non-conflict)
6. UTA 11/20 (0 conflict, 9 non-conflict)
7. ULM 6/20 (5 conflict, 9 non-conflict)
8. South Alabama 0/14
9. Georgia State 0/21
10. App State 0/16

We want to be the standard in the SBC. We should start acting like it.

A friend of mine who’s son is a former LHS pitcher now UNO said the remaining of their home games will be on the plus. No excuses. I thought Dr Maggard was bringing us to big time early on but lately he appears to be going backwards. Freaking UNO is doing a better job with broadcasting games.

[KajunKrazy]

Are they televising midweek games as well. You said ALL games were televised.

How many of those schools also televise softball?

Here's my point: Whether it's radio or TV, you'll be hard pressed to find schools that deal with five sports. (UL was the first to have commercial radio do a complete softball schedule). Yet, despite the efforts, it's never good enough. I think sometimes you need to step back and realize, at the end of the day, you are pretty fortunate. And as stated earlier, you can't put both softball and baseball on tv at the same time.

Probably not many do softball because it’s not popular with their fan base. I wish to goodness our school would take note and not sacrifice a baseball broadcast to softball.

[ragin50]

That really shouldn’t be choice. Pretty sure last weekend it was 2-1 soft ball. Should at least go the other way around if your looking for ratings.

Softball is much more exciting and fun to watch than baseball, IMO.

[ragin50]

Cost is also a factor (I think it's roughly 10K per game, but I'll check and report back.)

Just a question, why aren't the baseball and softball games scheduled at different times when both are at home for the weekend? Does the SBC also dictate starting times? Seems like it would help attendance and allow for both to be televised.

[KajunKrazy]

Softball is much more exciting and fun to watch than baseball, IMO.

Women sports are hard to watch IMO. Unless it’s Gymnastics, volleyball and some tennis players.

[LouisianaB]

I also requested the ratings for the broadcasts. I was told those only go to sponsors. So I cannot say whether baseball is watched more than softball, or vice versa.

[Scott Malkinson]

A friend of mine who’s son is a former LHS pitcher now UNO said the remaining of their home games will be on the plus. No excuses. I thought Dr Maggard was bringing us to big time early on but lately he appears to be going backwards. Freaking UNO is doing a better job with broadcasting games.

If WBB can afford to have every game on the plus with an average of 300 fans in the stands so can baseball and softball

[Esqueleto]

If WBB can afford to have every game on the plus with an average of 300 fans in the stands so can baseball and softball

Yeah, who's watching that snooze fest?

[Cajunrunner]

Yeah, who's watching that snooze fest?

Doesn’t matter. Have you seen the heavy push lately to promote Women’s Basketball.

Hell, last Friday I Googled “NCAA Tournament” to see the latest Men’s scores, and it was all the Women’s scores that were on the top of the results page. Had to scroll down a bit for the Men’s results.

NCAA Women’s Tournament was the Wiki result to the right. That’s by design, not accident.