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Old 03-23-2012, 09:10 AM   #1
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Tebow, Manning, Tebow, Tebow, Tebow

Michael Irvin apparently back on Crack.... once again.

Dr Phil?????????????????????????????WTF???????????????????

Kara Henderson close up on my 55' hdtv is a very, verrrrrrry bad thing, scary.

I'm waiting for Sicilaino's ears to start flapping and see him fly away. Him and Henderson paired up are so annoying.

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Manning, Manning, Tebow

Tebow, Tebow, Tebow

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Station has become like Entertainment Tonight, it's a gossipy, feminized sports channel. I don't care what the reasons are, that they're doing it to get a wider audience. I haven't watched ESPN in years and am very close to doing the same with NFLN. I know I don't have to watch - just venting.

Daily News, NY Post, Twitter????

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Old 03-23-2012, 09:28 AM   #2
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Like Bill says, it is what it is and in this case it's all about wide appeal and ratings and they are competing with Entertainment Tonight...

Serious or core football fans are a captive audience, they're pandering to the casual, ADHD fanboy, Madden video gamer and fantasy football generation driven audience.
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Serious or core football fans are a captive audience, they're pandering to the casual, ADHD fanboy, Madden video gamer and fantasy football generation driven audience.

MLR, you summed it up very well right there. Yes, the NFLN is a huge disappointment to me, but the bottom line is ... their bottom line.

It should also be noted that nearly all the top level executives are former espn employees. No point in hoping or expecting something drastically different from what espn offers (Around the Horn, Pardon the Interruption, etc.); they were probably hired based on their commercial success in Bristol, with the understanding they would attempt to duplicate the formula on NFLN.
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What would be the point of watching NFLN regularly during the offseason?

The channel is worthwhile because of their televised live events, documentaries, and replays.

I can't fathom why anyone with the internet would go there for news.
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Like Bill says, it is what it is and in this case it's all about wide appeal and ratings and they are competing with Entertainment Tonight...

Serious or core football fans are a captive audience, they're pandering to the casual, ADHD fanboy, Madden video gamer and fantasy football generation driven audience.
Definitely pandering to the casual viewer. Does anything point to their target audience more than that Cam Newton commercial, (for Under Armour, I think)? It's wrong on every level.
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What would be the point of watching NFLN regularly during the offseason?

The channel is worthwhile because of their televised live events, documentaries, and replays.

I can't fathom why anyone with the internet would go there for news.
Don't go for news, more like background noise working out of the home office. With free agency and the draft, it could be a lot better if they were aware there were more than two players in the NFL.
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What would be the point of watching NFLN regularly during the offseason?

The channel is worthwhile because of their televised live events, documentaries, and replays.

I can't fathom why anyone with the internet would go there for news.
I can see what you are saying in regards to news; that makes perfect sense.

I think the missing piece is informative detailed analysis, commentary and opinion. While the internet can provide that as well, what it doesn't provide very well are dialogues with differing opinions between 'expert analysts'.

Message boards like this fill that void, but wouldn't it be nice to have a couple of former coaches or general managers debating some of the things that get debated here, for example? Two people discussing the pros and cons of the Patriots signing Mario Williams, Mike Wallace, or signing neither one and spreading the money over multiple players, for instance. That's probably too provincial, but you could open it up to fifteen minutes per division with various analysts, and there's a pretty good two-hour show.


However, as Mo mentioned above, there is a certain number of people that are only interested in whatever today's number one story is, so it is doubtful this will ever occur.
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Are they still showing the 'top 5 plays' commercial 8x an hour? I really couldn't take that one anymore.
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Tebow, Manning, Tebow, Tebow, Tebow

Michael Irvin apparently back on Crack.... once again.


Tebow, Tebow, Tebow

Manning, Manning, Tebow

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Tebow, Tebow, Tebow

Station has become like Entertainment Tonight, it's a gossipy, feminized sports channel. I don't care what the reasons are, that they're doing it to get a wider audience. I haven't watched ESPN in years and am very close to doing the same with NFLN. I know I don't have to watch - just venting.


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However, as Mo mentioned above, there is a certain number of people that are only interested in whatever today's number one story is, so it is doubtful this will ever occur.
I think media companies are notorious for the tactic of using research data to steer programming, especially when they aren't given a large budget for content production.

I'm sure they've found out that "75% of viewers watch for 15-30 minutes" or whatever and want to make sure information is recycled at about that rate. You can also tell by the advertising (much of it for NFLN itself) that there is not a lot of money coming from that direction, especially in the offseason, leading to low production values in general.

They are trying to offset that by asking the cable companies for high rights fees (a la ESPN, the most expensive and richest cable channel), which some of them refuse to pay, leading to the large number of customers with no access to NFLN.

It's fun to watch during the draft, though.
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