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On 2/6/2025 at 10:57 PM, PerreaultForever said:

That happened in the 1970s didn't it? I don't remember the year but I remember as a kid they moved off channel 2 or 7 or something and were on channel 49 for a while. We still had an antennae on the side of the house in those days and could pick up a snowy signal in Hamilton. After that they were back on whatever channel ran Hill Street Blues. I remember that because my mother was always annoyed when the Sabres games ran long and they delayed it or cut off the beginning with the "joined in progress". 

man I feel old 🙂

 

80's.

On 2/7/2025 at 9:26 AM, mjd1001 said:

You might be correct that it can't work anymore. I guess my thought is....make it affordable. Make SOME money off of it, but don't try to maximize revenue. Think of it as a small way to increase revenue, but more so as part of your advertising budget.

I don't know the numbers, but my impression is the leagues, and owners, don't view these regional networks that way and set them up 'to fail' because instead of using them that way...they set up bloated businesses that aren't efficient but viewed fees and costs going up each year as a way to not maintain profits, but high profit margins.

Again, I don't know the numbers, but start with an affordable streaming option for people on their phones and tablets and computers.  Work to get an spot on the local cable network. Don't think you have to make $milliions and $millions off of it.  Streaming you can have tons of other videos and interviews on demand. On a network on television...fill up the time with replays of your games and programming of other local sports.

Maybe it can't work. I just think how those networks are run is more of a fuction of "lets do this because this is how its always been done" instead of injecting some creative thinking.

Pretty sure PART of the issue is with revenue sharing, both the owners and especially the players have a significant incentive to want to increase immediate revenues at the expense of using the broadcast availabilty to not just increase revenues today but to build a loyal future customer base that will lead to increased revenues in the future as well.  

Players careers are short and roughly every extra $1,400 in league revenues is an extra $ in every player's pocket.