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Post by proudhoya on Sept 8, 2012 14:56:44 GMT -5
I am a Hoya football fan really trying to follow the program from afar. I pay $9.95 for All-Access and the quality of the broadcast is terrible: Bad video, sound that is barely audible and no graphics that would at least allow score and time updates without struggling to hear the broadcast.
I understand that completing the stadium is a major commitment but can't we, or CBS, at least invest to have a quality on-line broadcast??
This is how the majority of alumni, parents and recruits follow Hoya Football and we could do so much better. My local high school broadcasts games with far superior quality and don't require any subscription.
How can we change this??
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Post by gtowndad on Sept 8, 2012 18:42:19 GMT -5
I complained about this for the last 4 years while I was trying to watch my son play from the West Coast. I even contacted the AD and he assurred me it would be fixed. Well, it never was. This is one of the reasons I do not donate to the Athletic Dept. anymore.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Sept 8, 2012 22:24:19 GMT -5
I understand that completing the stadium is a major commitment but can't we, or CBS, at least invest to have a quality on-line broadcast?? My guess, and it's only a guess, is that Georgetown is using a single video camera (likely the same one used at soccer or women's basketball or any other campus sport) and it's sending the feed straight to CBS' gateway. There are no production values (replay, time and distance, etc.) so CBS' only job is to collect the $9.95 payment. Given how little the single camera video offers via a vis a relatively high price, WGTB's free radio feed is significantly more competitive. |
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Post by thebin on Sept 9, 2012 8:43:04 GMT -5
The embarrassing thing to me is that they charge for it. If you are going to offer an option executed with such incompetence, have the decency to give it away. How many people pay for this per game? A dozen? GU should pick up the tab until it is worth paying for and the audience is in the 3 figures.
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RusskyHoya
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 9, 2012 23:14:26 GMT -5
This is something I've thought about from time to time. Gametracker is frequently awful as well.
This is the cynic in me talking, but... when the Hoya Hoop Club was soliciting suggestions for incentives to offer members who were outside of striking distance of Washington (and thus not able to take advantage of season ticket benefits), I conveyed a couple of ideas. One was discounts/special offers on premier Georgetown merchandise. I'm sure someone else in Athletics had the same thought and it is not attributable to me, but I was nonetheless gratified to see just such an offer land in my inbox recently.
Another was to offer discounted or even free All-Access. That idea was shot down without comment. Ever since then, my operating assumption has been that the purpose of having All Access, Gametracker, etc. is merely to say that we have them. Anything that would popularize their use, be it offering them as a featured incentive or making them high-quality, would induce greater demand. More and more people would start to complain about the quality of the offerings and demand improvements. Improvements cost money, and money is in short supply.
Every dollar that goes toward making the All-Access feed better is a dollar that's not going toward the IAC... or so one might think, anyway. We can come up with some good counterarguments (e.g. better ability to track games remotely = more excitement and greater investment in the team's performance = more donations from outside the DMV), but we don't really have any data to back that up, so...
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CAHoya07
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Post by CAHoya07 on Sept 10, 2012 0:05:05 GMT -5
Just wanted to say I basically agree with everything that's been said on here so far (particularly with Russky). Out of town fan here as well.
There is a lot of positive momentum here, from football and other sports, and yet...
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