- Joined
- Mar 23, 2008
Sorry, but you're wrong. Killing ALL the fluff is bad for skating, as I've outlined repeatedly. Incomprehensible scoring + no insight into the competitors = continuing decling in ratings. Someone mentioned putting them on Icenetwork. That's interesting, but 2 problems:
- Icenetwork has never done any kind of well-produced backstory piece like ABC
- Icenetwork makes you pay for most of the videos. If someone subscribes to IN, they are already fans of skating.
Here's an interesting new article talking about the continued ratings slide. He implies that the "barebones" NBC coverage of Nationals, sans fluff, was because they just don't care to spend the money on producing it, since the money isn't coming in. Makes sense to me. Actually he suggests NBC may dump skating after 2010. Looks like we might be in an unrecoverable nosedive...
- Icenetwork has never done any kind of well-produced backstory piece like ABC
- Icenetwork makes you pay for most of the videos. If someone subscribes to IN, they are already fans of skating.
Here's an interesting new article talking about the continued ratings slide. He implies that the "barebones" NBC coverage of Nationals, sans fluff, was because they just don't care to spend the money on producing it, since the money isn't coming in. Makes sense to me. Actually he suggests NBC may dump skating after 2010. Looks like we might be in an unrecoverable nosedive...