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#26
#26
Mullet said:
TV ratings are serious business. The gameday "spot" is strategic every week. Whether it's a UT, Cal, or VaTech -- that matters. Just being EST for the first game probably means millions of dollars in terms of ratings. When gameday comes on for the FIRST time in 2007 California will be sleeping!

They started doing gameday at 10AM last year. That's 7AM California time.

You don't think that a 7AM California gameday would be different than an east coast gameday?!?!
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Thank you, Les Moonvies. A totally nonsense post.
 
#27
#27
Has there been anything covered in this thread that wasn't touched on in the thread about this that went about 200 posts?
 
#30
#30
hohenfelsvol said:
Also agree. It appears a number of folks are taking this decision by ESPN personally. Funny really.
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It's par for the course. The Flat Earthers talk about how irrelevant and stupid ESPN is, then froth at the mouth when they don't do Gameday from Berkeley.
 
#31
#31
Gameday's national ratings are essentially the same every single week. The only way the ratings change are for local cable carriers, like Comcast. If the game is in Berkeley, you'll probably have more people in the Bay Area watching than normal.

How does that effect ESPN's money? It doesn't. It only effects the local cable companies' dollars, which would still be minimal. You might get a couple of advertisers who already spend money to add another spot. That's it.
 
#32
#32
Mullet said:
TV ratings are serious business. The gameday "spot" is strategic every week. Whether it's a UT, Cal, or VaTech -- that matters. Just being EST for the first game probably means millions of dollars in terms of ratings. When gameday comes on for the FIRST time in 2007 California will be sleeping!

They started doing gameday at 10AM last year. That's 7AM California time.

You don't think that a 7AM California gameday would be different than an east coast gameday?!?!
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Good point, and I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier. I live in Arizona for God's sake, and I wake up at 6 every football Saturday to work out before the 7am Gameday.
 
#33
#33
Mullet said:
so why IS the first game at VaTech then?
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It's not about money, and it's not about the actual game. If I had to guess, I would say it's for 2 reasons:

1. Positive publicity

2. ESPN's overrating of their own self worth
 
#35
#35
This decision makes me think of an email I got concerning the TV show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition". My company gives a lot of name brand product away to charitites and entertainment type entities. So anyway, I ended up on this chain email with the folks that produce that show. In one part of the email there is bascially a request looking for information on anyone with certain diseases and certain age groups, and married with kids. I found the tone of it disgusting and I guess this ESPN thing kind of reminds me of that. You say the ratings will be negligible and I don't doubt that.
 
#36
#36
allvol123 said:
This decision makes me think of an email I got concerning the TV show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition". My company gives a lot of name brand product away to charitites and entertainment type entities. So anyway, I ended up on this chain email with the folks that produce that show. In one part of the email there is bascially a request looking for information on anyone with certain diseases and certain age groups, and married with kids. I found the tone of it disgusting and I guess this ESPN thing kind of reminds me of that. You say the ratings will be negligible and I don't doubt that.
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That's a more reasonable complaint. What's the problem with the Extreme Makeover show? They might as well seek out people that need help the most. Sure, it probably makes the show more emotional and therefore, more watchable, but I don't see the harm.
 
#37
#37
kptvol said:
That's a more reasonable complaint. What's the problem with the Extreme Makeover show? They might as well seek out people that need help the most. Sure, it probably makes the show more emotional and therefore, more watchable, but I don't see the harm.
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There is no real harm with ESPN's decision or the EMHE show's decision. I just find them to be low class. The tone of the email was certinaly one of excitement as it actually listed off what diseases and situations would make for great TV. While they are certainly helping someone on the EMHE show, they weren't necessarily looking to help the person that needed it most, but rather the situation that pulled the most heart strings. I doubt this helps their ratings either, so I am not sure why they or ESPN would go in this direction.
 
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