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iospace posted:So, the highly essential but even more so under appreciated parts of the game? Also the things he never had in Chicago.
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Sporting News says ESPN has let Jerome Bettis go.
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DJExile posted:Sporting News says ESPN has let Jerome Bettis go. I guess they put him on A Bus 
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Mark Lazarus, the NBC Sports chairman, says they're looking at changing commercial blocks (fewer blocks that run longer) in order to get rid of the dreaded touchdown-commercial-touchback-commercial block, and said there's talk about the Thursday night games diluting the product. The latter part is interesting but perhaps a bit of gamesmanship since NBC would certainly like the rights themselves, but it's interesting nonetheless. E: There's less than 0 chance they reduce the number of spots but man you can't help but wonder if that's going to make the live experience a little more annoying. At some point you're going to have players standing around for 4-5 minutes not doing poo poo.
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Is it completely unfeasible to do in-game advertising as part of the broadcast graphics ala soccer? I mean, the NFL already bullies their way around everything else.
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Dango Bango posted:Is it completely unfeasible to do in-game advertising as part of the broadcast graphics ala soccer? I mean, the NFL already bullies their way around everything else. That's already part of it (live reads, graphic pop-ups, etc) but soccer is its own unique animal since there aren't really stoppages in play aside from halftime. At some point with those you reach saturation and just increase prices on the spots themselves.
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DJExile posted:Mark Lazarus, the NBC Sports chairman, says they're looking at changing commercial blocks (fewer blocks that run longer) in order to get rid of the dreaded touchdown-commercial-touchback-commercial block, and said there's talk about the Thursday night games diluting the product. The latter part is interesting but perhaps a bit of gamesmanship since NBC would certainly like the rights themselves, but it's interesting nonetheless. The live experience already blows in that regard.
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DJExile posted:That's already part of it (live reads, graphic pop-ups, etc) but soccer is its own unique animal since there aren't really stoppages in play aside from halftime. There's a ridiculous amount of in-game advertising in soccer, it's just on hoardings round the perimeter of the pitch that after a while you tend to forget that they're even there. It's also amusing when England play away at some random Balkan country and you see adverts on the digital hoardings for English companies
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:There's a ridiculous amount of in-game advertising in soccer, it's just on hoardings round the perimeter of the pitch that after a while you tend to forget that they're even there. It's also amusing when England play away at some random Balkan country and you see adverts on the digital hoardings for English companies The NFL has those, too. The NBA, as well. In fact, they have those hoardings around the front of the balconies, too. There is nary a surface that doesn't have an advert on it.
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Solomon Wilcots has left CBS's NFL coverage
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Dango Bango posted:Is it completely unfeasible to do in-game advertising as part of the broadcast graphics ala soccer? I mean, the NFL already bullies their way around everything else.  they had this for 1? game
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A bunch of teams did it in preseason one year I think? Honestly I'll sit through PAT > commercial > Kickoff > commercial > end of quarter any number of times before I'd want to see it again.
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Grittybeard posted:A bunch of teams did it in preseason one year I think? Honestly I'll sit through PAT > commercial > Kickoff > commercial > end of quarter any number of times before I'd want to see it again. They're changing that this year though, although who knows how well. Personally I'd rather be able to see the game than some corporate branding dazzle camouflage on the field, even with the current commercial structure.
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Disney announced earnings just now Some ESPN-related notes https://twitter.com/EricFisherSBJ/status/862037196366381056 https://twitter.com/EricFisherSBJ/status/862038686107668486 https://twitter.com/EricFisherSBJ/status/862043519548108801 https://twitter.com/EricFisherSBJ/status/862049414805934082 https://twitter.com/EricFisherSBJ/status/862050063048220673 https://twitter.com/EricFisherSBJ/status/862053184063320064 Vertical Lime fucked around with this message at 22:15 on May 9, 2017 |
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Vertical Lime posted:Disney announced earnings just now Good: More options and customization for standalone streaming packages. Bad: ESPN could fire pretty much everyone and not make up the difference on that lost revenue. I don't see how ESPN people will take the risks necessary to make anything new or interesting in this environment, especially when previous firings had little to do with talent or output.
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Countdown until all the on camera talent at ESPN are leggy blondes...
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Josh Lyman posted:Countdown until all the on camera talent at ESPN are leggy blondes... ESPN, where not just the takes are hot! 
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Speak of the devil, some guy made a good video about how ESPN's business model kinda set themselves up for failure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYRs8-Fmtlk
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:What's an OTT? Probably over the top service?
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Josh Lyman posted:Countdown until all the on camera talent at ESPN are leggy blondes... Blonde but ethnically ambiguous to cover all demographics, instagram style
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Henchman of Santa posted:Probably over the top service? Yeah, that's the buzzword for online-only services
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Dejan Bimble posted:Blonde but ethnically ambiguous to cover all demographics, instagram style ESPN literally becomes Stephen A screaming 24 hours a day while Molly Qeirm is the only one shown on camera.
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https://twitter.com/hartfordcourant/status/862279885301133312 I feel some sick humour coming from this
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I heard that his wife was actually on her way to trade in their 2003 Lexus SC convertible for a 2017 CT HatchBACKBACKBACKBACKBACK e: RUMBLIN BUMBLIN CRUMPLIN Teemu Pokemon fucked around with this message at 13:48 on May 10, 2017 |
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Teemu Pokemon posted:I heard that his wife was actually on her way to trade in their 2003 Lexus SC convertible for a 2017 CT HatchBACKBACKBACKBACKBACK
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I don't know where she was driving to, but I know she did. Not. Go. All. The. Way.
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All Berman can do now is hold his head high and try to just keep positive. Life goes on. What can you deux deux deux?
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Thoughts and prayers to the Berman household.
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What the hell can ESPN even do though? You can't afford the rights fees, but you need those rights to keep your ad rates high and also to justify the carrier cost. How do you counter that? FuzzySkinner posted:Speak of the devil, some guy made a good video about how ESPN's business model kinda set themselves up for failure. This is dead on too. They've fallen in to the trap of not having reporters and turning literally everyone into a pundit. Their on air talent is either people who shout all the time or just plain boring. The presentation is poo poo and bloated. I really don't think the network can be fixed as it currently exists and I think it's only a matter of time before Skipper goes because that's how these things work.
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The punditry stuff is stupid but I really don't think it's a huge factor. The issues are that people who never cared to watch the network in the first place now have ways to watch their shows without a cable package that gives money to ESPN and their primary purpose, news and highlights, has been usurped by the internet and smartphones so they aren't the number one destination for stuff people care about anymore, at least not the traditional network itself.
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a fairly long but fantastic read about how Schapp and Ley are approaching E:60 as a "Sports Reporters" replacementquote:“You can never go wrong respecting the intelligence of your audience,” Ley stated.
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DJExile posted:a fairly long but fantastic read about how Schapp and Ley are approaching E:60 as a "Sports Reporters" replacement Bob Ley feels like that type of person who if he wasn't at ESPN, could easily switch to a program like 60 Minutes and he wouldn't miss a beat. Anyway, cross post from IndyCar WindyMan posted:http://www.racer.com/more/viewpoints/item/140320-indycar-s-stream-dream It's nice to see a major sport (yes, I consider Indy major) understand the value of streaming, and realizing it's A. the future, and B. a bargaining chip.
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It's an awkward bargaining chip (at least for now) since some advertisers may not care about stream audiences if they're in countries that they don't do business in, but yeah it's good to see the attitude shifting in any event.
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A ratings increase like that kind of makes medicore regular season ratings worth it. And TNT at least still gets a decent ad rate for their coverage. Although maybe next CBA they shift some of those Monday regular season games to TruTV or something.
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iospace posted:Bob Ley feels like that type of person who if he wasn't at ESPN, could easily switch to a program like 60 Minutes and he wouldn't miss a beat. It's nice to see a major sport (yes, I consider Indy major) understand the value of streaming, and realizing it's A. the future, and B. a bargaining chip. [/quote] I think this just shows that a lot of race fans just want fast, loud cars with no talking over them.
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Akileese posted:I think this just shows that a lot of race fans just want fast, loud cars with no talking over them. Last year at the Indy 500, the approach to the start line and the opening lap was silent announcers. Dunno if it was production loving up or planned, but it was cool.
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