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ECAC Hockey Finales Will Not Be Televised
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finally got the go ahead to purchase about 4:32 and by the time I paid and got the feed of coarse I missed the first goal. Must say the feed is excellent. The camera angles and replays are what I would see from the networks. The camera work is also great. Not a lot of missed action. Cudos to RPI TV. Now if only someone would pay for card board cutouts and fill in the empty seats
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finally got the go ahead to purchase about 4:32 and by the time I paid and got the feed of coarse I missed the first goal. Must say the feed is excellent. The camera angles and replays are what I would see from the networks. The camera work is also great. Not a lot of missed action. Cudos to RPI TV. Now if only someone would pay for card board cutouts and fill in the empty seats
.FlagDUDE08
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Maybe it's a good thing we didn't get a TV contract. Seeing that on TV would have been even MORE embarrassing for the league.
Maybe it's a good thing we didn't get a TV contract. Seeing that on TV would have been even MORE embarrassing for the league.
MarkEagleUSA
C'mon Q!
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Looks like there's even less of a turnout for the 2nd game.
Looks like there's even less of a turnout for the 2nd game.
Looks like there's even less of a turnout for the 2nd game.
It is awful the ecac has no tv but having to pay to watch on the Internet is insult to injury. I am in Florida watching Hockey East on NBCSports while I have to pay nine bucks to watch the ecac in Atlantic City. The ecac should should be ashamed of themselves. There were some very bad decisions made by folks who should know better.
DavidSec17
Well-known member
Not to mention the fact that the ECAC livestats doesn't seem to be working well either.
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Not working well???
I could not get it to work at all. I tried on the laptop using Safari and Firefox browsers and my OS, Lion is up to date. I was beginning to wonder if the live stats people hate Apple or just hate me.
Not working well???
I could not get it to work at all. I tried on the laptop using Safari and Firefox browsers and my OS, Lion is up to date. I was beginning to wonder if the live stats people hate Apple or just hate me.
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Thanks to all that watched our feed(s) tonight! I'm pretty pleased with the content we put out today, and I'm extremely thankful to America One, who went the extra mile to ensure there was a higher quality option. They overnighted a new, more powerful encoding computer just for you to enjoy our feed at a high quality.
I hope you all will join us tomorrow for the consolation and final! We should have a bit more intermission content ready, and more interviews as well.
Thanks to all that watched our feed(s) tonight! I'm pretty pleased with the content we put out today, and I'm extremely thankful to America One, who went the extra mile to ensure there was a higher quality option. They overnighted a new, more powerful encoding computer just for you to enjoy our feed at a high quality.
I hope you all will join us tomorrow for the consolation and final! We should have a bit more intermission content ready, and more interviews as well.
FireKnight
Let's go Tech!
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It's pretty bad when I can sit at home, in New York, and watch 6 college hockey semifinal games on TV (in HD) while the 2 semi's that actually involve 3 NY teams isn't available to me, except on my computer at a fee. Thanks to the RPI folks and America One for setting it up, but it's just another failure of ECAC marketing.
It's pretty bad when I can sit at home, in New York, and watch 6 college hockey semifinal games on TV (in HD) while the 2 semi's that actually involve 3 NY teams isn't available to me, except on my computer at a fee. Thanks to the RPI folks and America One for setting it up, but it's just another failure of ECAC marketing.
Ralph Baer
Let's Go 'Tute!
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Great job done by RPI in giving us the ECAC games. Only glitch I saw in the broadcast was with the interview with the 1st negro hockey player that signed with an NHL team. The voice and picture were WAY OUT of synch. Like I said a glitch and nothing else.
Great job done by RPI in giving us the ECAC games. Only glitch I saw in the broadcast was with the interview with the 1st negro hockey player that signed with an NHL team. The voice and picture were WAY OUT of synch. Like I said a glitch and nothing else.
sk8tronthepond
Registered User
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Couple that with paying heavily for the games appears to be a good business decision.
Couple that with paying heavily for the games appears to be a good business decision.
Wicked Slappaahs
I miss Tie Domi
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I've been trying to figure that one out for a while now. I cannot fathom how Hagwell keeps his job - the AD's and Coaches seem somehow seem content with the product of low expectations.
and this guy is President of the Hockey Commissioners Association, which oversees College Hockey Inc.... go figure.
I've been trying to figure that one out for a while now. I cannot fathom how Hagwell keeps his job - the AD's and Coaches seem somehow seem content with the product of low expectations.
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Willie had one nice season with the New Haven Nighthawks, great person and a credit to the sport as well as mankind.
Was it O'Ree? BTW "black" is the preferred term, this is not baseball.
Willie had one nice season with the New Haven Nighthawks, great person and a credit to the sport as well as mankind.
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I noticed tonight that the ECAC has posted NOTHING on their Facebook page since March 9th.
And they've sent out one tweet all weekend, a single score update during the Union-Harvard game. Nothing else. They tweeted when the score was 0-0, but never tweeted who won the game.
What a joke.
I noticed tonight that the ECAC has posted NOTHING on their Facebook page since March 9th.
And they've sent out one tweet all weekend, a single score update during the Union-Harvard game. Nothing else. They tweeted when the score was 0-0, but never tweeted who won the game.
What a joke.
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Let me see if I can put what has happened here (no TV for the ECAC tournament) in perspective and even begin to grasp it. There are literally hundreds of outlets available for anyone with any kind of viable product and even a shread of competence to get it on the air. Even myself, with nothing but standard cable have a choice of over 70 channels. That was more than enough for me to watch parts of both the NYS high school hockey and basketball championships and most of the Hockey East tournament. With so many outlets competing for some kind of programming somebody will watch, I find it almost impossible to even comprehend how a certain staff could not get any of our tournament on TV but others manage to get the following on.
1) Verifably insane people, who also must be pretty money hungry, risking life and limb to drive 18 wheelers across frozen bodies of water in Alaska. Not a week goes by that I can't watch the "polar bear" Hugh Rowlands driving his load through Hennigan Pass and Whitefish on the way to Big Bear or wherever the hell he is going.
2) Guys who really need to get a life travelling all over the US looking for garages, barns or attics that are filled with old junk that has been laying there for decades so they can sift through it.
3) Functional illiterates driving rickity boats around swamps in the south chasing alligators.
4) Borderline sleezballs and con men (three generations worth) running a seedy pawn shop in Las Vegas. Come to think of it even the catatonic Chum Lee, the only non relative on the show, would be an improvement over the bunch that is now running the ECAC.
5) Unshaven, unshowered kooks and degenerates sitting at a table playing Texas Hold Em.
OK, if people can get all of the above on the airwaves, how in the name of fill in your own diety can the ECAC brass not get any of the conference tournament on??? That obviously leads to some questions such as how do these hacks keep their jobs??? Who the hell hired them to begin with??? Is there anyone else somewhere who could actually do the job instead of these clowns who will do nothing but eventually lead our league to extinction???
I will simply never be able to "get" or even remotely understand how this happened. Could there possibly be some rational explanation like the Atlantic City folks (hopefully not the mob) who lined the pockets of our brass with money dictated there was to be no TV coverage in an attempt to draw more people to their gambling mecca (curious place for a college conference to be holding their tournament to begin with). That, of course, would mean we got sold out. It better be somthing along those lines, otherwise the only possible answer is that our league is being run by stooges. While the mob reference above is kind of tongue in cheek, absolutely nothing would shock me about the present administration of the ECAC.
Let me see if I can put what has happened here (no TV for the ECAC tournament) in perspective and even begin to grasp it. There are literally hundreds of outlets available for anyone with any kind of viable product and even a shread of competence to get it on the air. Even myself, with nothing but standard cable have a choice of over 70 channels. That was more than enough for me to watch parts of both the NYS high school hockey and basketball championships and most of the Hockey East tournament. With so many outlets competing for some kind of programming somebody will watch, I find it almost impossible to even comprehend how a certain staff could not get any of our tournament on TV but others manage to get the following on.
1) Verifably insane people, who also must be pretty money hungry, risking life and limb to drive 18 wheelers across frozen bodies of water in Alaska. Not a week goes by that I can't watch the "polar bear" Hugh Rowlands driving his load through Hennigan Pass and Whitefish on the way to Big Bear or wherever the hell he is going.
2) Guys who really need to get a life travelling all over the US looking for garages, barns or attics that are filled with old junk that has been laying there for decades so they can sift through it.
3) Functional illiterates driving rickity boats around swamps in the south chasing alligators.
4) Borderline sleezballs and con men (three generations worth) running a seedy pawn shop in Las Vegas. Come to think of it even the catatonic Chum Lee, the only non relative on the show, would be an improvement over the bunch that is now running the ECAC.
5) Unshaven, unshowered kooks and degenerates sitting at a table playing Texas Hold Em.
OK, if people can get all of the above on the airwaves, how in the name of fill in your own diety can the ECAC brass not get any of the conference tournament on??? That obviously leads to some questions such as how do these hacks keep their jobs??? Who the hell hired them to begin with??? Is there anyone else somewhere who could actually do the job instead of these clowns who will do nothing but eventually lead our league to extinction???
I will simply never be able to "get" or even remotely understand how this happened. Could there possibly be some rational explanation like the Atlantic City folks (hopefully not the mob) who lined the pockets of our brass with money dictated there was to be no TV coverage in an attempt to draw more people to their gambling mecca (curious place for a college conference to be holding their tournament to begin with). That, of course, would mean we got sold out. It better be somthing along those lines, otherwise the only possible answer is that our league is being run by stooges. While the mob reference above is kind of tongue in cheek, absolutely nothing would shock me about the present administration of the ECAC.
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Forgot to say earlier that I thought RPI-TV put on great game productions... absolutely no complaints with the streams. I thought Wodon and Fridgen were a good team behind the mic.
These online streams saved the weekend from being a complete broadcasting disaster.
Forgot to say earlier that I thought RPI-TV put on great game productions... absolutely no complaints with the streams. I thought Wodon and Fridgen were a good team behind the mic.
These online streams saved the weekend from being a complete broadcasting disaster.
MarkEagleUSA
C'mon Q!
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Except for a few technical glitches (audio out of sync, on-screen graphics) it was an exceptional production. Wodon and Fridgen were good but more enthusiasm would have been nice. My only real complaint was that the RPI-TV was very distracting... not sure if it was color, size, or placement on the screen, but it seemed I was always looking at it.
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While I was initially pretty upset that the games would not be on cable, I thought that the rpitv production was superb. The picture was sharp (was it HD?) and the camera work was totally satisfactory. In fact the whole production was far better than some of the network college hockey productions (CBS, NBC and ESPNU) where the announcers feel the need to explain college hockey to the audience (I'm thinking of some of Barry Melrose's patronizing commentary last year).
The one thing I wish I could figure out is how to connect my computer to my tv screen and watch on the tv screen. If I knew how to do that, I would have to say the future is here. I'd rather pay $9.95 for something I want to watch than $50 or $100 a month for a few hundred channels showing nothing I want to watch. Yes, its a bit embarrasing that ECAC couldn't line up a tv contract, but (thinking about it) there was really nothing wrong with the rpi tv product.
While I was initially pretty upset that the games would not be on cable, I thought that the rpitv production was superb. The picture was sharp (was it HD?) and the camera work was totally satisfactory. In fact the whole production was far better than some of the network college hockey productions (CBS, NBC and ESPNU) where the announcers feel the need to explain college hockey to the audience (I'm thinking of some of Barry Melrose's patronizing commentary last year).
The one thing I wish I could figure out is how to connect my computer to my tv screen and watch on the tv screen. If I knew how to do that, I would have to say the future is here. I'd rather pay $9.95 for something I want to watch than $50 or $100 a month for a few hundred channels showing nothing I want to watch. Yes, its a bit embarrasing that ECAC couldn't line up a tv contract, but (thinking about it) there was really nothing wrong with the rpi tv product.