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  • #511
    Re: The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

    Originally posted by icebadger View Post
    I always thought of this as a chicken or the egg situation. Does ESPN broadcast a particular sport when then gains appeal and is aired more or does a sport require a baseline level of viewership for ESPN to show it? For women's BB, I think it is the former. ESPN has shown it for years and years including college and WNBA. The ratings are growing apparently, albeit slowly. If they actually aired hockey once in a while, they might accumulate an audience for it. How about one game/week?
    Even that's too much to ask for hockey when it comes to this network.

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    • #512
      Re: The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

      btw, I wasn't asking to be all feminist-*****y about women's sports - I realize it could come across that way. I'd rather watch the grass grow than watch women's basketball. But that doesn't mean ESPN has some sort of social responsibility to show the National Grass Growing Championships because I, personally, think it's more exciting.

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      • #513
        Re: The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

        Originally posted by jen View Post
        btw, I wasn't asking to be all feminist-*****y about women's sports - I realize it could come across that way. I'd rather watch the grass grow than watch women's basketball. But that doesn't mean ESPN has some sort of social responsibility to show the National Grass Growing Championships because I, personally, think it's more exciting.
        Don't give them ideas...

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        • #514
          Re: The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

          Originally posted by jen View Post
          btw, i wasn't asking to be all feminist-*****y about women's sports - i realize it could come across that way. I'd rather watch the grass grow than watch women's basketball. But that doesn't mean espn has some sort of social responsibility to show the national extreme grass growing championships because i, personally, think it's more exciting.
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          • #515
            Re: The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

            This thread made me think of what the X-Games have evolved into from 1995 to now... Like most other things involved with ESPN, it is simply a shell of it's former self... But at the same time, it has taken once fringe sports and made them highly visible and even mainstream... And that is a great thing for those sports.... IDK what to make of this.... I'm stuck on the fence...
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            • #516
              Re: The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

              This thread makes me think "why the **** don't you just watch the NHL network?"
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              • #517
                Re: The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

                Originally posted by RaceBoarder View Post
                This thread made me think of what the X-Games have evolved into from 1995 to now... Like most other things involved with ESPN, it is simply a shell of it's former self... But at the same time, it has taken once fringe sports and made them highly visible and even mainstream... And that is a great thing for those sports.... IDK what to make of this.... I'm stuck on the fence...
                The X-Games are a shell of their former self? Did they take a cosmically deep and spiritual event and make it profitable, is that what you're whining about?
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                • #518
                  Re: The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

                  Originally posted by RaceBoarder View Post
                  This thread made me think of what the X-Games have evolved into from 1995 to now... Like most other things involved with ESPN, it is simply a shell of it's former self... But at the same time, it has taken once fringe sports and made them highly visible and even mainstream... And that is a great thing for those sports.... IDK what to make of this.... I'm stuck on the fence...
                  ESPN has turned hockey into a fringe sport. Maybe they will have to cover it by your logic.
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                  • #519
                    Re: The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

                    I haven't seen the Worlds Strongest Man 1992 in a while. Why doesn't ESPN play reruns of those anymore? They used to be on all the time.
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                    • #520
                      Re: The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

                      Originally posted by bigblue_dl View Post
                      I haven't seen the Worlds Strongest Man 1992 in a while. Why doesn't ESPN play reruns of those anymore? They used to be on all the time.
                      They used to counter-program against the NFL with it. I hardly see it anymore since poker came under the umbrella of the Evil Empire.
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                      • #521
                        Re: The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

                        Originally posted by MountieBoyOz View Post
                        ESPN has turned hockey into a fringe sport. Maybe they will have to cover it by your logic.
                        ESPN went back in time and allowed the Norris family to delay expansion by decades to keep their monopoly over the professional league for the sport, leaving it regional at best?
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                        • #522
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                          Quite happy with the in-depth post game coverage ESPN provided for the first semi-final game.

                          Actually, the commercials that were shown 30 seconds after the final buzzer lasted longer than the post game comments when they came back. There weren't on the air from the venue for more than 90 seconds in total following the game. I expect the same tonight. Broadcast starts at 8:00, puck drops by 8:03 and they are off the air 2 1/2 minutes after the buzzer including the 60 seconds of commercials. I hope the game goes 6 OTs just to **** off ESPN.

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                          • #523
                            Re: The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

                            Originally posted by WeAreNDHockey View Post
                            Quite happy with the in-depth post game coverage ESPN provided for the first semi-final game.

                            Actually, the commercials that were shown 30 seconds after the final buzzer lasted longer than the post game comments when they came back. There weren't on the air from the venue for more than 90 seconds in total following the game. I expect the same tonight. Broadcast starts at 8:00, puck drops by 8:03 and they are off the air 2 1/2 minutes after the buzzer including the 60 seconds of commercials. I hope the game goes 6 OTs just to **** off ESPN.
                            Right, E*******SPN gives little to no credit at a time when credit is hugely deserved. End of program and move on to College Baseball...
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                            • #524
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                              I liked that they spent as much time talking about the late game as the could, since people will have heard of those schools.

                              As for the lack of post game....what, you weren't interested in pre-game for regular season college baseball?
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                              • #525
                                Re: The "Complain About ESPN" Thread

                                OK, my anger at ESPN is really starting to boil over now... It's probably good that I don't live next door to any ESPN executives.

                                Why do they find it necessary to go to a mini-sportscenter just because they have a couple of extra minutes to fill since the first game went a little longer than they had planned for? Did they even leave Denver between games of the women's Final Four on Sunday? Did anyone happen to see that there were nearly as many empty seats for Notre Dame's regional final in the women's tourney in North Carolina as there were for ALL FOUR regional finals in hockey? I'm not expecting an hour of pregame hype (like the women's Final Four) but once 8:00 p.m. hits, stay in Tampa for God's sake. Are they so afraid that they will lose even more viewers if people just wandering by will immediately turn away if they don't see yet ANOTHER story about the NFL? And if so, aren't they just going to flip channels as soon as they see it is college hockey? What, they play COLLEGE hockey....?

                                Starman had a column earlier in the week about how we should be taking our complaints about the horrible way the NCAA is presenting the tournament to fans to the source. He said he'd find out who best to direct our complaints to and post it. Does anyone know if he actually followed through with this info? Or absent that, does anyone have any idea who to direct those concerns to? The devaluation of this tournament by ESPN has got to be stopped. I find it hard to believe college hockey is any less popular than the other sports they seem to give as much or more attention to, like women's hoops and Lacrosse. I believe it is tied firmly to their lack of interest in the NHL and the NHL's refusal to give in to ESPN in the season immediately following the lockout when ESPN wanted to show NHL games without paying a rights fee. They have just decided to thumb their noses at all things hockey.

                                Eff ESPN and eff the NCAA while we're at it.

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