KICU released their entire sports team at the end of last year to concentrate on more news programming…no more High School Sports Focus and On Deck Shows. Brodie Brazil still has his website with archives from the shows. http://www.brodiebrazil.com/

I iive in Sacramento myself. Blame the fact that none of the TV stations in the market want anything more than a smattering of games.

mw

Your post shows how difficult our job can be. When I solicited this blog a couple of years ago for suggestions for our telecasts, the first thing most people mentioned is that they didn’t like the box in the lower right but preferred the strip.

As for the pitch speed, when we get it (we don’t always control the availability of the radar), I’ll try to make that stay up a bit longer.

And though I appreciate the Action36 mention, we no longer use that as a station identifier. We’re just plain old TV36 now.

mw

Wow, I guess all the hard work we do to put these games on has been reduced to just not fulfilling your need for hi-definition.

So let me take a moment to fill you in on what it takes to do Hi Def. First, I need to tell you that we’d like nothing more than to do the games in hi def. But understand that the cost of the equipment and transmission is nearly double what a standard def telecasts costs.

Our friends at Comcast, who do a great job, have the luxury of getting subscriber fees from you every month. It’s part of your cable or satellite bill. That’s millions of dollars per month before they sell even one commercial.

TV stations like KICU subsist only on advertising revenue. We can’t raise the rates to advertisers because of high definition so we need to find advertisers who are willing to underwrite the additional cost.

Comcast is even more formidable now that they have “eliminated the middle man.” They are both programmer and distributor.

If the FCC would allow local TV stations to charge cable companies even a modes per month fee, you can be assured you would not only get the A’s in hi def but all other programming as well. Sadly, that will probably never happen, even though it puts commercial TV stations at a clear disadvantage.

This is the 2nd “if you do this, I’ll submit photos..” post. MW came to AN with a fun contest that might be of interest to ANers. While he’s been kind enough to solicit our input about broadcast details in the past, that really isn’t the point of this diary. I’m sure that he would be interested to hear constructive thoughts, but your post just comes across as incredibly rude.

Currently, I’m covering this + studying for finals, but I will send the photos when I get some free time.