I am lucky enough to live across the Detroit River from a CBC station &
prefer watching sports from there. The Grand Prix meets are shown at least
3X/day.
Dan Deyo
----- Original Message -----
From: John Molvar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Send t-and-f <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:51 PM
Subject: t-and-f: WCs: CBC vs CBS and Exclusive Rights Contracts
> CBC does a much better job. They are a public
> station that doesn't have to make a profit.
>
> CBS is a profit making enterprise. They think if
> they show nothing but up close and personals,
> people will watch. They are doing this because
> their marketeers classify track as an "Olympic
> Sport" which the marketeers say targets a women's
> audience which the marketeers say are not really
> interested in competition but are interest in
> "the human side to the sport". They are wrong of
> course, but still pull down triple digit salaries
> even as the Network loses money when they cover
> track and DWIGHT (in hiding) will defend these
> marketeers until his dying breath or his last
> paycheck from them. All the power to them I
> guess.
>
> The irony is that CBC gets a much larger share of
> the Canadian audience by "just showing the damn
> meet" than CBS does from the US audience by
> deliberately trying to reach a larger audience by
> showing what they think people want to see. CBS
> sucks.
>
> To me the problem is not that we need more
> government tv in America, but with the long
> standing tradition in America of "exclusive
> rights" contracts that exists for sporting
> events. I think the events (football, track,
> baseball, golf, etc. )could make more money if
> they started refusing to sign exclusive rights
> contracts. I.e. the Edmonton WC organizers
> should have signed several smaller contracts with
> 3 or 4 different US stations for a sum total
> greater than the one exclusive rights contract.
> The organizers would make more money and we could
> keep switching the channel to get the best
> coverage. The networks would hate it of course,
> they don't want to compete during the heat of the
> battle. They would probably collude to stop it
> or use the court system to stop it. They prefer
> the status quo with an up front bidding war, then
> they are free from direct competition during the
> actual event and have monopoly coverage of the
> event which allows them to show what they want to
> show, when they want to show it, and to package
> it into what ever bogus theme they are selling.
>
> This is a radical idea, but I am a radical.
>
> John Molvar
>
>
>
>
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