[NU Sports] TV for Wisconsin Game

[Roy Lamberton]

I've found over the years when dealing with internet stuff, that at times there
are delivery systems that seem to have a life of their own, based on who the
webmaster or MIS director happens to be.

The ESPN360 appears to be part of the flash family of internet programs, and as
such enjoys a following among a large group of guys who learned how to program
there.

Its just like Fortran and Cobol, two old computer languages that continue to
evolve and remain mainstays in business, even though you can hardly find a
training course on either one. The old C language is in a similar boat.

As for the doofus who came up with ESPN360 charging the ISPs instead of the
users, he's probably working for Disneyworld as a programming supervisor, long
gone from internet wars....

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Hodges
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:37 AM
> To: John Labbe
> Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] TV for Wisconsin Game
> 
> 
> On 10/4/06, John Labbe <johnl at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > What's hard to understand is that you've got everyone on this list, 
> > plus about half the state of Wisconsin, wanting to watch this game, 
> > many of whom would be willing to fork out $10-20 for a 
> crappy internet 
> > feed just of this game, but practically no one in this 
> audience will 
> > be able to see it.  How is that a plan to make money?
> 
> 
> Because ESPN forces the ISP to pay a fee for every 
> subscriber, whether they watch ESPN360 (or even knows that it 
> exists) or not.  And eventually if they get enough people to 
> fill out that form and call their ISPs then they'll pony up.  
> And everyone's service rates will increase.
> 
> Of course they could make the cash now if they put it on 
> GamePlan and well all dished out the cash for the game.
> 
> Doesn't make sense, but welcome to corporate America, I suppose.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> 
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