Guide to being a fan of Boston sports

[planet planet]

Do you think a less glitzy, more in-depth national sports channel would be successful?

Heck, yes! Nowadays there are channels devoted to far less interesting subjects. I can't wait for the baseball channel to come out. When is that supposed to start?

[Dillagii]

Do you think a less glitzy, more in-depth national sports channel would be successful?

Not sure

[Popeye_Card]

Do you think a less glitzy, more in-depth national sports channel would be successful?

I don't know. ESPN has such a "presence" built up now that it's hard to break in. CNN/SI tried, and went away. Vs. is made fun of for trying.

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[Arthur Dent]

Do you think a less glitzy, more in-depth national sports channel would be successful?

Heck, yes! Nowadays there are channels devoted to far less interesting subjects. I can't wait for the baseball channel to come out. When is that supposed to start?

A lot of those channels can succeed because it doesn't cost much to produce the programming. Licensing to broadcast sports is expensive, and the leagues typically have all kinds of rules giving only one or two channels rights and only in certain places.

[planet planet]

Do you think a less glitzy, more in-depth national sports channel would be successful?

Heck, yes! Nowadays there are channels devoted to far less interesting subjects. I can't wait for the baseball channel to come out. When is that supposed to start?

A lot of those channels can succeed because it doesn't cost much to produce the programming. Licensing to broadcast sports is expensive, and the leagues typically have all kinds of rules giving only one or two channels rights and only in certain places.

I didn't think of that. Why does it have to broadcast games though? Can't it just be all commentary about baseball all the time? Or are we stuck watching a show geared toward the lowest common denominator?

[JL21]

Do you think a less glitzy, more in-depth national sports channel would be successful?

I don't know. ESPN has such a "presence" built up now that it's hard to break in. CNN/SI tried, and went away. Vs. is made fun of for trying.

--P--

Remember when the Trapper Keeper took over Cartman and then everything else in South Park?

That's how I feel about ESPN hiring Rick Reilly.

[Popeye_Card]

That's how I feel about ESPN hiring Rick Reilly.

That turned my stomach, because while SI isn't very exciting (outside of the photos, which are excellent), ESPN The Magazine is complete garbage. Every once in a while I'll pick it up if I'm in a waiting room, and I remember why it's so bad. I think I'd rather read Good Housekeeping.

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[jim]

Do you think a less glitzy, more in-depth national sports channel would be successful?

No way. A less glitzy, more in-depth national NEWS channel can't even survive, let alone a sports channel.

[docellis]

This is a long thread. I dislike the red sox.

[JL21]

That turned my stomach, because while SI isn't very exciting (outside of the photos, which are excellent), ESPN The Magazine is complete garbage. Every once in a while I'll pick it up if I'm in a waiting room, and I remember why it's so bad. I think I'd rather read Good Housekeeping.

--P--

QFT

Although I kind of like SI. Maybe it's just because it seems like it's the quality of The Brothers Karamazov in relation to ESPN the magazine.