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Re: NHL 2012: Playoffs! Pick Your Overtime Winners!
A tweet isn't long enough for the thought I have regarding this:
http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2012-...medium=twitter
Take what she says, and pretend you're reading about NASCAR in 2001. It's the exact same things that were said about NASCAR when ESPN let FOX, TNT, and NBC win the rights. "It's too regional," "It doesn't translate well to TV," "No one is talking about it on talk radio."
And what has NASCAR become? A multi-billion dollar entertainment experience.
The NHL is almost there. When they finally realized that airing every playoff game nationally had as much if not more ad-value and potential viewers than every team's regular season game combined, they're approaching the big boom that sparked Nascar in the very early 2000's. Sports don't need ESPN, but ESPN certainly realizes that they need sports. They came crawling back to Nascar in 2005* when NBC was trying to go after different sports and really learned that they needed to step up their coverage to be near what FOX had done for the sport.
* after almost killing the Nascar Craftsman Truck Series before their deal in 2002 ended by tape delaying the broadcasts for hours, if not days.
A tweet isn't long enough for the thought I have regarding this:
http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2012-...medium=twitter
Take what she says, and pretend you're reading about NASCAR in 2001. It's the exact same things that were said about NASCAR when ESPN let FOX, TNT, and NBC win the rights. "It's too regional," "It doesn't translate well to TV," "No one is talking about it on talk radio."
And what has NASCAR become? A multi-billion dollar entertainment experience.
The NHL is almost there. When they finally realized that airing every playoff game nationally had as much if not more ad-value and potential viewers than every team's regular season game combined, they're approaching the big boom that sparked Nascar in the very early 2000's. Sports don't need ESPN, but ESPN certainly realizes that they need sports. They came crawling back to Nascar in 2005* when NBC was trying to go after different sports and really learned that they needed to step up their coverage to be near what FOX had done for the sport.
* after almost killing the Nascar Craftsman Truck Series before their deal in 2002 ended by tape delaying the broadcasts for hours, if not days.
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