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Bradley completely shut out of MVC television package

tornado

tornado

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I understand that the Valley favors getting their top teams onto the network..
but this is a chance for the Valley teams to be seen NATIONALLY on ESPN...there will be 46 telecasts.........including 26 different Men's Basketball games on the various ESPN outlets,
and teams like Wichita, Indiana State, UNI, and even Missouri State are locked in with at least 3 to EIGHT times, many on ESPN, ESPN2 & ESPNU...

BUT Bradley gets completely shut out of the televised games...and appears only twice on their webcasts (ESPN3)...

http://www.mvc-sports.com/mbasketba...er&utm_content=buffer0d2bb&utm_medium=twitter
 
Post the TV schedule in the locker room and have the Braves show them what a mistake they're making.
 
Time to get out of the MVC. Once Wichita leaves (which is inevitable), the MVC will be an also-ran. Anyone excited when they added Loyola? BU should be kicking and screaming to MVC officials about this
 
BU freak said:
Time to get out of the MVC. Once Wichita leaves (which is inevitable), the MVC will be an also-ran. Anyone excited when they added Loyola? BU should be kicking and screaming to MVC officials about this
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Leave for where? That sounds good but what conference would want Bradley that would be any better? Maybe a newly formed conference?
 
FWIW, in response to a question about local TV on TOB, Bobby mentioned that we should hear of a package closer to the start of the conference season.
 
schools without football are largely like passengers without tickets...if we get out of the MVC then where do we go?
We are not "positioned well" which would mean having FB, making the NCAA the past few years, or drawing 10K
 
I think the lack of TV is bad luck instead of anything else.

There was a consensus top 3 going into the year: WSU, InSU, UNI. Obviously, if we're getting TV appearances, it's probably one of those games.

5 of our 6 games against those schools are weekday games. The MVC gets no weekday TV games. They get plenty of weekend games. All our best games are trapped in a window where we can't get TV.

If we had Missouri St's schedule, we'd have 3 national appearances, they'd have 0, and it'd be no big deal. The ONLY reason they're on TV and we're not is because of that.

Also, our Sunday night package with ESPN disappeared, and that cost us a couple more appearances.
 
TheAsianSensation said:
I think the lack of TV is bad luck instead of anything else.
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I believe there is a ton of evidence to the contrary - even in past years when we have been very bad & interest declined (early 90's, early 2000's, and the past few years) we still had TV deals in place with at least a dozen or more broadcasts of BU games, and announced by October.
This is the first year in my memory that not a whimper of info about a BU TV deal and it's mid-November!
A few years back (2010) half the TV games were announced in early SEPTEMBER & the rest by mid-Oct.!!
BP began tweeting the TV schedule by mid-to-late Oct. each of the past couple years.
There are local stations that want to do BU games on TV but of course the decision is not in the hands of the TV people.
 
Bradley TV Coverage

Bradley TV Coverage

Bradleys TV coverage has been and is not good at all and it makes me wonder if the "Keystone Kops" in our Ath. Dept. are capable of putting TV deals together or if they somehow have another agenda, or just don't care.
It seems like we struggle every year for mediocre TV---What is going on and why can't we get this handled correctly? Good TV coverage creates fan interest and can help in recruiting. Another reason why our fan base is getting smaller.
Wiz
 
I became a fan from seeing games on tv. It's VERY important to building and maintaining fan interest. Games on tv do not take away from ticket sales either as some in the past have thought in all sports. Look at the Blackhawks. They wouldn't televise home games until fairly recently and that certaintly hasn't hurt ticket sales.
 
tornado said:
I believe there is a ton of evidence to the contrary - even in past years when we have been very bad & interest declined (early 90's, early 2000's, and the past few years) we still had TV deals in place with at least a dozen or more broadcasts of BU games, and announced by October.
This is the first year in my memory that not a whimper of info about a BU TV deal and it's mid-November!
A few years back (2010) half the TV games were announced in early SEPTEMBER & the rest by mid-Oct.!!
BP began tweeting the TV schedule by mid-to-late Oct. each of the past couple years.
There are local stations that want to do BU games on TV but of course the decision is not in the hands of the TV people.
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I was talking about national TV appearances, not local. Obviously the national appearances have been decided for a month.

By the way, I agree with you on the local schedule. It's a bit discouraging it's out this late.
 
First the ticket fiasco and now the TV package. What is going on up at Bradley? Does the Athletic Dept. not have a clue on how to market things. Are they purposely trying to discourage Bradley excitement? Dr. Cross needs to answer some questions.
 
First - I wonder what kind of revenue figure are we talking about for a mid-major getting a deal for their games on TV (multiple games like we have seen other schools announcing)
Such figures are available for football and, of course, the revenue runs into the $ millions, even for smaller schools.
But for basketball deals I suspect smaller schools get deals that are significantly smaller revenue.
Still we saw the mad scramble for conference realignment - and even midmajor schools dumping long time conference affiliation and long time natural rivals just to get into leagues that give them even better TV deals.

But it's more than just the loss of direct revenue from TV - if your team isn't on TV then it will certainly result in less interest in the community - obviously less ticket sales, less attendance, but also less ability to market the team/program and draw advertising revenue.

I've seen excuses, alibis, and babble on this topic - but spin it any way you want, Bradley basketball has always had a solid TV audience in Central Illinois but now we don't have a decent TV package year after year...
 
If it was always a solid TV audience and profitable then you would have something done every year pretty easily??¦.that's not the case??¦

I know that ads have never been inexpensive and the viewership is very limited. Advertisers usually put ads on to support the university, not to get a good return on their investment in the ad. In today's market and business climate it's not nearly as easy to throw that money around??¦

Now with that said the transition to Nelligan's hasn't been smooth and with the season starting earlier made it even tougher. At least now all the folks are in place so we'll see how it goes from here.
 
Now with that said the transition to Nelligan's hasn't been smooth and with the season starting earlier made it even tougher. At least now all the folks are in place so we'll see how it goes from here.
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So you are saying they didn't have time or forgot to do the TV deal? Or they just dropped the ball?


Bradley has always had a local TV package, and I have spoken to people connected to local media who say there is a market, and that there are TV stations even now that are interested in televising games. There are more local stations now than ever when you include all the "side channels", and even the BU women's team has had some games televised in the past. ISU had a number of their games on Comcast, and Bradley has had a similar deal in the past. But Bradley has nothing so far?
I just don't buy that it can't be done, and it is hurting Bradley's fan support. Anyone who has been to a game this year can't help but notice the dwindling attendance, lower than we have ever seen. Plus even among the season ticket holders in the lower bowl there are far more no-shows than I've ever seen before. It is just a bad time to be cutting out TV presence.
 
Da Coach said:
So you are saying they didn't have time or forgot to do the TV deal? Or they just dropped the ball?


Bradley has always had a local TV package, and I have spoken to people connected to local media who say there is a market, and that there are TV stations even now that are interested in televising games. There are more local stations now than ever when you include all the "side channels", and even the BU women's team has had some games televised in the past. ISU had a number of their games on Comcast, and Bradley has had a similar deal in the past. But Bradley has nothing so far?
I just don't buy that it can't be done, and it is hurting Bradley's fan support. Anyone who has been to a game this year can't help but notice the dwindling attendance, lower than we have ever seen. Plus even among the season ticket holders in the lower bowl there are far more no-shows than I've ever seen before. It is just a bad time to be cutting out TV presence.
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I never said it couldn't done...it's just not as easy as some think...
 
radley completely shut out of MVC TV

radley completely shut out of MVC TV

Our Ath. Dept. hasn't been able to put together a decent TV package for years. Either they don't care, are incompetent, or have some other agenda. In any event, this is terrible for BU. Attendance is declining rapidly and having no good local TV of games affects this. Creating fans especially among young people isn't happening and lack of TV in Central Illinois hurts recruiting. What in Gods name is wrong with our AD? Doesn't he see this. And where is our President....For all of her "cheerleading" and involvement in everything at BU, she appears to have done nothing regarding our lack of TV coverage. Does she care?
Wiz
 
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