I hate taking the "anything is an improvement" stance, especially since these contract events are rare and have significant repercussions for many years. But the Pac is in an incredibly weak negotiating position right now. When you're losing your top media market AND you can't even make your games available to people actively seeking them...you can't use the status quo as a viable counter offer. Deal length is a major question for me.
I'm just glad this will be the last season of using a borrowed login to watch.
Tough spot for Kliavkoff. He's watching his career go down in flames by holding the bag that Larry Scott shat in. At least he'll be compensated beyond our wildest dreams.
I might have missed it here, but is it a done deal that the Pac12 Network is going away? What would that even look like? A liquification of all assets? I certainly liked that I could see EVERY game and wouldn't want to lose that. Money, Money, Money. And I don't want our second tier status to mean all our games are marginalized to weird times and days.
Scott should have negotiated a deal with ESPN so the Pac-12 had its own mini-network under the ESPN umbrella. Instead he tried, through hubris, to re-invent the wheel and create a freestanding network that never obtained enough distribution to be relevant. If someone can unload the assets for a decent price that would be quite an accomplishment.
Hoping that I can actually pay money to stream Cal & Pac 12 games. Even the frickin' NFL has moved with the times. I don't care about TV at all. I just want to stream my sports and movies dagnabit!!!
The Pac-12 network production side, which will have a new setup in East Bay, will have some considerable value. Selling it will bring in a good sized chunk of money, but it will be a one time lump of money (or maybe spread out over several years for payment), but then its gone. And the ADs will have all the new money spent within a week.
Contracting out production services would provide a revenue stream going forward, though it won't be nearly as large per year as a one-time fire sale. It would be the better strategy long-term for universities that want stable income and assured quality of services. But whether the conference is prepared to effectively manage a production company in a time of rapidly evolving technology is another matter. And the athletic departments will want every penny they can get as fast as they can get them. So they can spend them, and then complain that they need more to keep up.
I hate taking the "anything is an improvement" stance, especially since these contract events are rare and have significant repercussions for many years. But the Pac is in an incredibly weak negotiating position right now. When you're losing your top media market AND you can't even make your games available to people actively seeking them...you can't use the status quo as a viable counter offer. Deal length is a major question for me.
I'm just glad this will be the last season of using a borrowed login to watch.
Tough spot for Kliavkoff. He's watching his career go down in flames by holding the bag that Larry Scott shat in. At least he'll be compensated beyond our wildest dreams.
Fiscally speaking, it sounds like we're still heavily incentivized to bail for the B1G. I'm sure they'd be thrilled to add an actual academic school.
I might have missed it here, but is it a done deal that the Pac12 Network is going away? What would that even look like? A liquification of all assets? I certainly liked that I could see EVERY game and wouldn't want to lose that. Money, Money, Money. And I don't want our second tier status to mean all our games are marginalized to weird times and days.
Scott should have negotiated a deal with ESPN so the Pac-12 had its own mini-network under the ESPN umbrella. Instead he tried, through hubris, to re-invent the wheel and create a freestanding network that never obtained enough distribution to be relevant. If someone can unload the assets for a decent price that would be quite an accomplishment.
Hoping that I can actually pay money to stream Cal & Pac 12 games. Even the frickin' NFL has moved with the times. I don't care about TV at all. I just want to stream my sports and movies dagnabit!!!
The Pac-12 network production side, which will have a new setup in East Bay, will have some considerable value. Selling it will bring in a good sized chunk of money, but it will be a one time lump of money (or maybe spread out over several years for payment), but then its gone. And the ADs will have all the new money spent within a week.
Contracting out production services would provide a revenue stream going forward, though it won't be nearly as large per year as a one-time fire sale. It would be the better strategy long-term for universities that want stable income and assured quality of services. But whether the conference is prepared to effectively manage a production company in a time of rapidly evolving technology is another matter. And the athletic departments will want every penny they can get as fast as they can get them. So they can spend them, and then complain that they need more to keep up.