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    Today at 8:36 PM
    WCHA commissioner Bruce McLeod said two years ago, he received a note from then-CCHA commissioner Fred Pletsch.

    The topic of discussion: the online streaming of college hockey games.

    “He said, ‘Bruce, I’m telling you, I think this streaming is the route to go. It’s going to get better and better,’” McLeod said as he recounted the story from the Berry Events Center seats in Marquette last Friday. “He said, ‘Kids on campuses, they look at things on their iPads and laptops.

    They don’t look at television anymore.

    Read more: http://www.uscho.com/2013/10/30/wcha...#ixzz2jGracBdx

    at least not a knock at radio LOL

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    Great to hear the streaming has generated revenue beyond expectations. Now, why not make sure all systems are checked for quality standards before streaming. The Hunstville stream quality both video and audio, including the unprofessional commentators was embarrassing. We are paying $150 for the season pass thus generating "unexpected revenue". Our expectations exceed that rinky dink presentation.

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    • #3
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      Originally posted by soulbeaver View Post
      Great to hear the streaming has generated revenue beyond expectations. Now, why not make sure all systems are checked for quality standards before streaming. The Hunstville stream quality both video and audio, including the unprofessional commentators was embarrassing. We are paying $150 for the season pass thus generating "unexpected revenue". Our expectations exceed that rinky dink presentation.
      If you have followed the BSU Beavers Thread, one of the Huntsville announcers has apologized for the quality of the broadcast last weekend. He has done radio broadcasting in the past for the Chargers and he was all prepared to follow the PBP guy, like a good color person would. But the PBP guy was totally unprepared and that ruined the whole broadcast.

      Technical issues are just that, technical issues. When you have a two and a half hour hockey game and something goes wrong, trying to track down where the problem lies, whether it is in the arena or with AmericaOne, can be a problem. Especially when a lot of these arenas don't have the broadcast crew on hand like Bemidji and the broadcast team IS the technical crew, well, stuff happens.

      This is a great start for the conference and hopefully it can grow, maybe into some sort of TV game of the week or something, somewhere.
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      • #4
        Re: WCHA Video Streaming

        So can/do you:

        1) have to pay a subscription fee?
        2) get free access by registering your cable company info?
        3) get free access to watch any WCHA game?
        Go Gophers!

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        • #5
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          Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
          So can/do you:

          1) have to pay a subscription fee?
          2) get free access by registering your cable company info?
          3) get free access to watch any WCHA game?
          1) yes
          2) no
          3) no

          http://www.americaonesports.com/package_wcha.asp

          Bottom line - $150 for the whole season for every game from every conference team (basically - road non conference games aren't included). The cost was discounted to $125 if purchased before 10/1.

          I'm happy everyone is thrilled with the funding they've discovered. Unfortunately, this means that they'll never give it away free like they had said they would.
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          • #6
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            How much of that "unexpected revenue" is being blown on flying the commissioner from his office in Denver to Houghon just to tell his usual, long, boring-*** stories about how clueless he was?
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            • #7
              Originally posted by moose97 View Post
              I'm happy everyone is thrilled with the funding they've discovered. Unfortunately, this means that they'll never give it away free like they had said they would.
              AmericaOne isn't hosting these feeds out of the goodness of their hearts. Of every $150 subscriber, they're taking a big chunk before passing the rest along to the WCHA.

              If the WCHA could take care of things in-house and add sponsorship, it wouldn't be free but could be much lower. The WCHA can also write off discounts and free games as market promotion.

              If they can work with Fox Sports again (if/when FoxSportsGo takes off) you may see a "Free with TV subscription" model used.
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              • #8
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                The WCHA needs to have a Roku and Apple TV channel. ASAP!
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                • #9
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                  What the WCHA really needs to explore is hitting up all the sports bars in the ten WCHA towns and encouraging them to buy the package and play WCHA hockey on their TVs on Friday and Saturday nights. Some die hard fans will buy the package for use at home, but I really think drawing attention to other league games and your local team's away games at bars around town would be a fantastic way to increase exposure and fan interest. I'd love to hop over to a sports bar after leaving the rink and catch some central time zone or Alaskan WCHA games.

                  Much like Rocky Wirtz putting the Blackhawks back on TV, increased attention outside of the arena will bolster ticket and merchandise sales in the arena. I think it'd even be worth it to hit up regional bars in towns that don't have a local team. There are a lot of college hockey fans and alumni in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Detroit, Chicago and Grand Rapids.

                  PS. It is disturbing that the commissioner of the league is so ignorant of modern technology.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by hattrick16 View Post
                    PS. It is disturbing that the commissioner of the league is so ignorant of modern technology.
                    While I kinda agree, what did the other commissioners do to push "new media" ways of attracting fans? The CCHA was finally coming around and hitting home runs on all social media (YouTube/Twitter/Facebook), and the NCHC tried to push Twitter/Facebook... but the leagues are run by the old guard. They looked to TV deals and old webpage ideas.


                    I have to commend the WCHA and the member schools for picking up the dropped ball from FoxSports and attempting to do something with it. Maybe it was the forced "outside the box" thinking where they realized they are the small fish and needed to do something different.

                    I just hope the WCHA can stay ahead of the other leagues.
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                    • #11
                      Re: WCHA Video Streaming

                      Originally posted by hattrick16 View Post
                      What the WCHA really needs to explore is hitting up all the sports bars in the ten WCHA towns and encouraging them to buy the package and play WCHA hockey on their TVs on Friday and Saturday nights. Some die hard fans will buy the package for use at home, but I really think drawing attention to other league games and your local team's away games at bars around town would be a fantastic way to increase exposure and fan interest. I'd love to hop over to a sports bar after leaving the rink and catch some central time zone or Alaskan WCHA games.
                      I don't think that the video quality is up to putting it on anything bigger than a 27" screen. Perhaps I'm noticing the compression artifacts more because I'm sitting closer to the screen than you would for normal TV, but I don't think that it would scale very well.

                      GFM <— hasn't watched last weekend's broadcasts to see how we got better or worse.
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                      • #12
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                        Originally posted by gfmorris View Post
                        I don't think that the video quality is up to putting it on anything bigger than a 27" screen. Perhaps I'm noticing the compression artifacts more because I'm sitting closer to the screen than you would for normal TV, but I don't think that it would scale very well.
                        That's interesting. I have not purchased the package but with many people owning TVs larger than 27" already, I'm curious what their experience has been.

                        Maybe as the kinks get worked out and the feeds get better this is more doable.
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                        • #13
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                          My computer is hooked up to a 40" TV, so that's how I've watched all games this season. Honestly, even the best feeds aren't really HD. Running them in a window, some of them look pretty good, but when you go to full screen, it starts getting rough. That said, I'm also sitting 6 feet away, from more of a distance it probably wouldn't be as bad.

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                          • #14
                            Re: WCHA Video Streaming

                            Originally posted by hattrick16 View Post
                            That's interesting. I have not purchased the package but with many people owning TVs larger than 27" already, I'm curious what their experience has been.

                            Maybe as the kinks get worked out and the feeds get better this is more doable.
                            I have a 27" iMac and a 25" TV slaved to it. The TV gets the games. Going full-screen is rough when viewed at three feet. I think that it would be pretty bad scaled up from that. I haven't tied it to my 73" projector yet.

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                            • #15
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                              Mankato's setup is very nice. Are they doing that for local TV and repurposing the feed out to A1? We're nowhere near that.

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