[NU Sports] Cats v. 'Cuse

[Roy Lamberton]

Just as a point of reference.

We webcast the first 25 games of the Little League Senior Softball World
Series, charging $6 per game or $30 for the entire series.

We sold over $3,500 in PPV subscriptions for just this little event, and
people are still signing up and paying to download the games.

PPV is the way to go, altho I think the price at $30 is a little steep. Then
again, flying to Syracuse for the game would cost a hell of a lot more,
wouldn't it.

rsl

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-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Mike Nolan
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 2:33 PM
To: Dennis W. Brandt
Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Cats v. 'Cuse

> > If they can't provide coverage we should have the option at 
> > their(Syracuse) expense to bring the Big Ten network out to cover the 
> > game.
> 
> Right on!  Power to the Purple!  It's crazy not to televise every game in 
> this day and age. 

If that's really what you want, then pay-per-view is probably the long
term solution, and that's where the Big 10 Network has us headed, IMHO.  

Nebraska's first three home games are all on PPV this year, at $29.95 per 
game.  

I've been told that Nebraska makes quite a tidy profit from those PPV
games, and I think that's above and beyond the guaranteed conference TV 
payments.  

Those games are all against Sun Belt conference teams (Florida Atlantic, 
Arkansas State and and Louisiana-Lafayette), so I don't imagine ABC or Fox
was all that interested in them, since the Huskers aren't a top 5 team.  
(If Texas played those 3 schools, I bet they'd all be on TV.) 
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Mike Nolan

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