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TV Networks, Game Times, and The Plan

Chris Peterson at Washington made some interesting comments last week... Here’s more on that, and the interesting developments over the last 24 hours that are related: https://www.seattletimes.com/sports...make-sense-of-espns-spat-with-chris-petersen/

Juxtapose this story next to what Gary Patterson said after the WVU game yesterday (referencing Peterson, surprisingly), where he praised ESPN, Fox, thanked them for all they do for TCU and Fort Worth, and relayed a story about how he was supposed to go on Gameday very early on in the show but decided to move back his interview slot to 10am CT even though it messed with his normal day-of schedule because he wanted to help ESPN and the school by giving an interview during the prime hour of the show.

I point out these two things to emphasize something for TCU fans...

CVB, CDC, CGP all LOVE ESPN, Fox, etc. (more than the Big 12, even) regardless of the day games or morning games because:

- They paid TCU approximately $18mm in 2016-17 for the “inconvenience”
- They use their huge platforms to promote TCU to millions, and pay TCU for that service
- Most importantly: TCU has seen what the other side of the tracks look like. They remember what it was like to get $250k a year from the MWC, only to pay that money back to the conference to keep it solvent. They remember what it was like to be thankful for an ESPN game, instead of fighting for a night game on the Versus network which only half their fan base had access too.

The next time you complain about a 2:30 start, please don’t forget that we are NOT entitled to this reality we are currently experiencing. There was a time that TCU had 0% of all this goodness, and there could be a day in the future, if we aren’t careful and proactive, where we could find ourself there again. Ironically, Chris Peterson knows what its like too... But, maybe, the leather seat he sits on has softened his resolve. Or, maybe he figured Washington could never be left out because it has enough chips to stay in the game... Maybe he thinks they have a few cards to play in this big game.

TCU does too, but our leadership has a different strategy.

TCU spends a lot of time doing everything it can to make things easy for TV, thanking them for prime placement, working with them to promote the broadcast to drive viewership instead of complaining about the ESPN 2 vs. ESPN, or 2:30 vs. 6:30. They do this because, unlike Chris Peterson, we have a real and justified fear that one day this whole thing might end. The next time the “powers” decide to redraw the map, the last decade of TCU doing what it can to make business better for the networks won’t be forgotten. That’s the plan.

So, please, get on board.
 

finafrog

Full Member
Or some network that you have a hard time finding.
i was in reno on the saturday we beat byu in october EDIT 2009 and due to some dispute between cox communications and directv or something like that, the game was not available in any sports bar or casino, even though it was probably the most heavily bet game that weekend. it was on some outdoors channel that nobody in town carried. total frustration. and, at the time, I was not aware of firstrow and the like (or maybe it did not exist).
 
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