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RPI @ MSU-Mankato (10/19 - 10/20)

Re: RPI @ MSU-Mankato (10/19 - 10/20)

fr joe said:
The dark suit is 1-0-1 in '12/'13. ;)
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Padre: Didn't Seth have on a grey/dark suit on Fri. night? Some may choose to mock the tan suit curse...but I have seen too many beige debacles (pre-dating SA) at HFH to think otherwise...:D
 
Re: RPI @ MSU-Mankato (10/19 - 10/20)

Wicked Slappaahs said:
Padre: Didn't Seth have on a grey/dark suit on Fri. night? Some may choose to mock the tan suit curse...but I have seen too many beige debacles (pre-dating SA) at HFH to think otherwise...:D
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He did wear a tan suit the last time we played UNH and won, but by no means does that mean the curse was lifted.
 
Re: RPI @ MSU-Mankato (10/19 - 10/20)

Any MSU fans (too lazy to do the research myself honestly) know if they stream their games live for fans to watch? Preferably without a paywall? :) If not I'll just have to settle for listening to the game :P
 
Re: RPI @ MSU-Mankato (10/19 - 10/20)

ibanezist00 said:
Any MSU fans (too lazy to do the research myself honestly) know if they stream their games live for fans to watch? Preferably without a paywall? :) If not I'll just have to settle for listening to the game :P
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I have told-and will repeat it here-that both games will be video streamed live on the web. I was not told if there was any cost to view.
 
Re: RPI @ MSU-Mankato (10/19 - 10/20)

MavsFan said:
That's how much they wanted for the UAH games last week. That's just crazy. I can't help but think that if they'd make it $2-3 a game, they'd get so many more viewers that they'd actually end up with more revenue.
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It's not like any of the money goes to the schools, anyway. Not worth it; I'll either stick to WRPI, or better yet, the NYQP is this weekend.
 
Re: RPI @ MSU-Mankato (10/19 - 10/20)

FlagDUDE08 said:
It's not like any of the money goes to the schools, anyway. Not worth it; I'll either stick to WRPI, or better yet, the NYQP is this weekend.
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Oh, I think some of it has to be going to the schools, or else they wouldn't give the rights to webcast it.
 
Re: RPI @ MSU-Mankato (10/19 - 10/20)

MavsFan said:
Oh, I think some of it has to be going to the schools, or else they wouldn't give the rights to webcast it.
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Why do you think RPI dumped AmericaOne? Aside from the fact that their stream quality is about as good as the CFCF signal from where I grew up...
 
Re: RPI @ MSU-Mankato (10/19 - 10/20)

MavsFan said:
Oh, I think some of it has to be going to the schools, or else they wouldn't give the rights to webcast it.
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RPI didn't get any money from America One and before that B2. That is what we were told over the last several years by representatives of RPI-TV. RPI did it purely to get athletics (including friends-and-family sports) on the net. The fact that RPI is not attempting to get money this year from RPI-TV productions leads more credence to that. I suppose that it could be different for MSU-M.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
RPI didn't get any money from America One and before that B2. That is what we were told over the last several years by representatives of RPI-TV. RPI did it purely to get athletics (including friends-and-family sports) on the net. The fact that RPI is not attempting to get money this year from RPI-TV productions leads more credence to that. I suppose that it could be different for MSU-M.
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Typically, schools that sign with America One get a cut of the profit once a threshold has been met. RPI TV did not receive any money from America One, however RPI most likely did.
 
Re: RPI @ MSU-Mankato (10/19 - 10/20)

RHamilton said:
Typically, schools that sign with America One get a cut of the profit once a threshold has been met. RPI TV did not receive any money from America One, however RPI most likely did.
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Well, that would make sense; if it costs the company as much or more to produce the programming as they make from subscribers, the school would probably be willing to take zero for the exposure. I have no knowledge if MSU gets any money from the cable channel that carries their home games or from internet streaming.
 
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From word of mouth, I heard the stream is very good. A friend of mine watched the Mavs and the Bulldogs last weekend and said he could even go picture in picture and watch.
 
Re: RPI @ MSU-Mankato (10/19 - 10/20)

FlagDUDE08 said:
Why do you think RPI dumped AmericaOne? Aside from the fact that their stream quality is about as good as the CFCF signal from where I grew up...
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Will you please explain your analogy? No one gets it.
 
Re: RPI @ MSU-Mankato (10/19 - 10/20)

MavsFan said:
That's how much they wanted for the UAH games last week. That's just crazy. I can't help but think that if they'd make it $2-3 a game, they'd get so many more viewers that they'd actually end up with more revenue.
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I'm surprised they don't experiment a bit more to find out....

There's a very interesting progression on how pricing these kinds of packages works (see: history of cell phone pricing):
> step one: charge what you need to cover your fixed costs given your initial subscriber base
> step two: once your fixed costs are covered (you have a required minimum number of subscribers), you can increase overall revenue by then reducing what you charge more slowly than your subscriber base increases, since incremental costs are a small part of your total charge
> step three: you now have so many subscribers that your fixed costs now are a small fraction of total revenue, and it's all about finding the "sweet spot" between size of subscriber base and what you charge them.
 
Re: RPI @ MSU-Mankato (10/19 - 10/20)

FreshFish said:
I'm surprised they don't experiment a bit more to find out....

There's a very interesting progression on how pricing these kinds of packages works (see: history of cell phone pricing):
> step one: charge what you need to cover your fixed costs given your initial subscriber base
> step two: once your fixed costs are covered (you have a required minimum number of subscribers), you can increase overall revenue by then reducing what you charge more slowly than your subscriber base increases, since incremental costs are a small part of your total charge
> step three: you now have so many subscribers that your fixed costs now are a small fraction of total revenue, and it's all about finding the "sweet spot" between size of subscriber base and what you charge them.
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I think that it works that way more in theory than in practice. When B2 started I was overjoyed just to have it available. After a while i watched more critically. Also i suspect that there are more subscribers when are winning.
 
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