CycloneErik
Well-Known Member
Im in ft. dodge with mediacom... its not on. Do we win this time? ;(
It ain't Rambo II there, chief:smile:
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Im in ft. dodge with mediacom... its not on. Do we win this time? ;(
Worst commentators ever?
welcome to our world, we've had FIVE non-televised games this year
try listening to the radio and having to go by crowd reactions instead of the announcers. I know a lot of our fans listened to your broadcast crew on Saturday and said they enjoyed it.
Honestly that unacceptable you guys are in a HUGE TV market.
Honestly that unacceptable you guys are in a HUGE TV market.
Jamie, thanks for the note. The current policy you cite is that we will not put up an Aggie home football game on pay per view (ppv) until we are sold out in season tickets at Kyle Field. By conference contract, we broadcast every contest our conference TV partners pick. Here's my rationale for our ppv policy. First, the game has to be moved outside the current TV windows of ESPN/ABC and Fox per Big-12 Conference contracts. That means we either kick early (sometimes as early as 10:30am), or we kick late, (sometimes as late as 9:00pm like we did at Tech a few years back).
Second, the most recent numbers I've seen say only 16% of our football season ticket sales come from Brazos County. That means 84% of our fans drive some distance to our games. The latest numbers I've seen are about 36% come from the greater Houston area, 24% from the DFW area, and the remainder comes from the I-35 corridor down into the Valley and from East Texas. My position is asking 84% of our fans to move their departure times to come to College Station is an inconvenience for them. (editor's note: those are the 2008 numbers. The 2009 numbers have seen Brazos County grow to 21% so that means we would inconvenience 79% of our season ticket holders)
Third, the way revenue is distributed for ppv is: 50% to Fox, 25% to our opponent and 25% to us. The last time we did ppv, our net was $15,000. To give you a comparison, when Nebraska is on ppv, they not only are sold out in season tickets, they generate more money than an ESPN/ABC game as their 25% share. That's almost 20 times what we have netted when we have put up ppv. We average 10,000 walkups per home game, but for our ppv game, we had 5,000 fewer walkup sales. At an average price of $50, we gave up $250,000 in ticket income for $15,000 in TV income. That's not a good trade.
Fourth, when we do have games of national interest, the networks broadcast them. The games we would ppv are the Utah State, Louisiana Tech type games, and candidly, our fans not only don't purchase tickets for those games here in Kyle, they also don't buy ppv. Heck, this last weekend we had over 22,000 Aggies who had purchased tickets to the ISU game who did not show up at Kyle. I know some would argue that ticket prices are high, but these are folks who've already spent their money on Aggie football and then don't show. Speaking of ticket prices, we have offered half price tickets for every home game this season so far and have not sold out of those seats.
Fifth, our Big 12 television partners (ESPN/ABC/FSN/Versus) make their selections based upon what they feel is the best matchup for that particular week. We cannot turn those picks down when we are selected by conference contracts with those platforms.
Last, I don't think it is unreasonable to ask our fans to come see us in person. Our tickets are priced the way they are so we can offer 31,000 half priced tickets to our students and keep the tradition of the 12th Man alive but doing that comes with a price and that price is our other fans have to subsidize those low ticket prices for our students. Most Aggies I have talked to think that is a fair price to pay. I hope you do too.
Thanks again for taking the time to write. I very much appreciate your loyalty and support.