your team's media coverage

[SuperHornet]

Turns out the beat writter for UNI, who has done a terrible job lately of covering big UNI news (i.e. UNI's MBB coach interviewing for the TAMU job, a recent basketball signee that he was 2 days late with the news on, among other things) has left the position. He has taken a job for FSNorth and FSWisconsin.....makes sense why he has slacked hard core. He has been looking for other jobs and slow clocking the shit out of his last job

You should complain to FoxSports. If a guy will do that in one place, odds are he'll do it in the next. We might disagree on some topics on these boards, but that doesn't mean that you deserve cr@ppy coverage of your team. NOBODY deserves that.

[SuperHornet]

Naturally, I can't speak to EVERY team here, but if there's anything I've noticed, it's that the Griz at least know what they have and how to take advantage of it. That is, good or bad, they know that games are available on a dish regardless of where they are, and they do a VERY good job at dissemminating access info to fans around the country.

Liberty fans, as has already been noted, have games broadcast on the Liberty Channel, which is accessible on the Internet. (I haven't seen a game in this fashion yet, but I have watched the Sunday School class the dean of the School of Religion and the Seminary does and I've watched Convocation as well.) But of the three schools I have any sort of association with, that's the extent of it as UOP has a presence on the local access channel, but it pirates the radio feed with no video commercials, so one is stuck with a frozen camera during radio commercials, and I haven't seen much available for Sac. Certainly no TV other than the occasional football game on tape delay on Fox Sports Bay Area. And certainly not a minor sport. (UOP will at least show girls VB and the occasional girls hoops game; boys hoops games are pretty much a given, but it's subject to the limitations noted above.)

So, I guess it would be interesting to know who has life as good as a Griz fan when it comes to access to games from wherever you might be.

[clenz]

Turns out the beat writter for UNI, who has done a terrible job lately of covering big UNI news (i.e. UNI's MBB coach interviewing for the TAMU job, a recent basketball signee that he was 2 days late with the news on, among other things) has left the position. He has taken a job for FSNorth and FSWisconsin.....makes sense why he has slacked hard core. He has been looking for other jobs and slow clocking the shit out of his last job

You should complain to FoxSports. If a guy will do that in one place, odds are he'll do it in the next. We might disagree on some topics on these boards, but that doesn't mean that you deserve cr@ppy coverage of your team. NOBODY deserves that.

Meh. He was a good guy, and I had nice conversations with him. However, even though he was UNI's beat writer his heart was always with the Iowa State football program, and local high school sports.

UNI has a football beat writer, who many Panther fans want to see take over the basketball job as well as he doesn't seem to suffer from FBS envy like a lot of other writers. However, to do a full time UNI beat writer job, the high school coverage he does (and he does very well) and to add a full D1 basketball schedule to it would be hell.

[kalm]

We may not have the best FCS media coverage, but our media coverage is FAR SUPERIOR than that of Akron and Kent State.

TV Coverage: MyYTV broadcasts all YSU home football games at 10:00pm on game nights.
Radio Coverage: 570 WKBN broadcasts our football games. 570 easily has the most powerful signal in Youngstown. I listened to 570 down in Columbus after the YSU-OSU game 3 years ago. It can be heard in Pittsburgh and Cleveland as well.
Newspaper Coverage: The Youngstown Vindicator during spring practice and every weekday of the fall have front-page stories on Youngstown State in the newspaper. Coverage in the Warren Tribune-Chronicle is solid as well, but not as good as the Vindicator's coverage.
TV Recap Show: 21 WFMJ has Penguin Gameday each Wednesday Night. In years past, SportsTime Ohio broadcast Penguin Gameday as well to its millions of viewers.

Overall, we have unbelievable coverage. Akron and Kent get 0 TV coverage as their TV coverage comes from Cleveland, where they could careless about their God awful football teams. Youngstown has 21 NBC, 27 CBS, 33 ABC, and 19 FOX that have tremendous gameday coverage of our games.

I would rate YSU's coverage a solid A. Much of this is due to our success in the 1990s.

The "Vindicator" is a cool name for a paper.

[EWURanger]

Meh, I actually don't think it's that bad. Definitely could be better, but definitely not worse than the other schools in our conference who reside in a state with two or more Pac-10 schools. Winning a title didn't hurt, but unless we moved to the Pac-10 tomorrow it won't improve massively. Even Idaho in the WAC gets worse coverage in this area than EWU does.

[Seawolf97]

We have been lucky so far with positive coverage in the local newspapers especially the L.I. Newsday since Hofstra dropped football. The local news station Channel 12 has covered us as well as spot articles in NYC daily's the New York Post and the Daily News. The small Three Village Patch nespaper which covers local news in the StonyBrook area always has an artical about SBU either sports or academics. StonyBrook this past May just won a community leadership award from the Three Village Patch for its work with youth league football, basketball and lacrosse. True the paper only covers about 45,000 people-small for New York standards, but we will take it.

[Seawolf97]

I did forget to mention an upcoming media event in neighboring Nassau County conducted by StonyBrook Athletics on Saturday Aug. 13th. In conjunction with The Township of Oyster Bay, The Nassau-Suffolk Counties PAL Youth Football Leagues and the Massapequa Youth Leagues -StonyBrook is conducting a meet The Seawolves Day. There will be free admission, live music with a free football clinic from 2-4pm . Following that will be a Red vs White scrimmage from 5pm to 7pm with a meet and greet the players following the game. Media coverage will include L.I. Newsday, Channel 12 and CBS Sports. Of course local politicains will be around as will our AD and the President of the University. This wil be held pretty much in the front yard of Hofstra only 10 miles away. The whole event is free and refreshments will be available courtesy of the Township of Oyster Bay. This is a local first for any school as we try to expand our footprint.

[SuperHornet]

Our Bee coverage may be experiencing a sea change. This was posted on SacBuzz today:

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/24/379051 ... tball.html

Fairly decent, even-handed write-up that doesn't go out of its way to slam a good program, unlike the local radio station. You even bring up the name of Sac State on that douchebag station, and the host will cut you off and go into a diatribe about all that's wrong about Sac State in HIS mind.

I sincerely hope the Bee is turning over a new leaf....

[Catattack]

But of the three schools I have any sort of association with, that's the extent of it as UOP has a presence on the local access channel, but it pirates the radio feed with no video commercials, so one is stuck with a frozen camera during radio commercials, and I haven't seen much available for Sac. Certainly no TV other than the occasional football game on tape delay on Fox Sports Bay Area. And certainly not a minor sport. (UOP will at least show girls VB and the occasional girls hoops game; boys hoops games are pretty much a given, but it's subject to the limitations noted above.)

So, I guess it would be interesting to know who has life as good as a Griz fan when it comes to access to games from wherever you might be.

You ever heard of thing called Big Sky TV ?

[SuperHornet]

But of the three schools I have any sort of association with, that's the extent of it as UOP has a presence on the local access channel, but it pirates the radio feed with no video commercials, so one is stuck with a frozen camera during radio commercials, and I haven't seen much available for Sac. Certainly no TV other than the occasional football game on tape delay on Fox Sports Bay Area. And certainly not a minor sport. (UOP will at least show girls VB and the occasional girls hoops game; boys hoops games are pretty much a given, but it's subject to the limitations noted above.)

So, I guess it would be interesting to know who has life as good as a Griz fan when it comes to access to games from wherever you might be.

You ever heard of thing called Big Sky TV ?

All I've ever heard about Big Sky TV was that it was just about worse than nothing.

[Catattack]

You ever heard of thing called Big Sky TV ?

All I've ever heard about Big Sky TV was that it was just about worse than nothing.

It depends on the home teams video. I was very happy with the MBB & WBB coverage last season. As far as your life as good as a griz fan criteria, sure it is.

[Aho Old Guy]

Appalachian State

One advantage of success (and not being in a major media market) is that folks generally want a little piece of yah, and Appalachian benefits from it.

To the west the 'Tri-Cities' in Tennessee (Kingsport, Johnson City and Bristol, pop: 500k) are 60 miles away, to the east the 'Piedmont Triad' (Greensboro, High Point & Winston-Salem, pop: 1.7m) is 75 miles away, and Car-lotte claims everything to the south of Boone-Blowing Rock (from Blackberry to Rock Hill, pop: 2.7m). We probably get a little love from Greenville-Spartanburg in SC that is not reserved for The Vermin or The Ankle-Biters.

Newspapers: A-

We get decent local, regional and state coverage. The Winston-Salem Journal (Tommy Bowman) and Charlotte Observer (Ron Green, Jr - not sure if David Scott is still around) cover game-days and do occasional media pieces. I imagine the Tri-Cities have folks that cover games, too, but their newspapers are not all over town like the Fish-Wrap and Disturber.

The Charlotte Observer is now a 'sister' newspaper to the Raleigh News and Observer so I'll guess our 'love' also stretches to the 'Research Triangle' (Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill, pop: 2.5m) roughly 150 miles to the east, since they now share a lot of content/reporters. Bunch of App grads down there in the Triangle.

We're a strong second-banana to ACC football and 'semi-local' pro sports, and most folks understand and accept that. Game-day articles sometimes include pics and are 500-1000 word with box scores on a separate page. The rest of the SoCon game scores get listed with a sentence or so synopsis, a little Big South love with scores and a few comments, and there is occasional national FCS love, primarily CAA.

Television: B to D to ??

'Local' TV sports in the Tri-Cities, Triad and Charlotte get a *B* for reporting scores and stats, sometimes with game tape, sometimes with a 'borrowed' feed.

SoCon game broadcasts get a *D* (and that's being kind). SportsSouth (or Fox Sports South, or whatever the heck they are/were) was a joke. I don't think it was carried by Charter until a few years (and lawsuits) ago in western North Carolina. I don't think it's even on BOONE Charter cable, but it's on Hickory and Lincolnton Charter cable? WTF ?? Charter did not even offer ESPN3/360 through their internet until a few years ago.

Apparently, Charter/Comcast has/had a regional sports channel which was/is a direct competitor to the Turner/SportsSouth/FoxSports regional channel so they took it out on their customers by screwing with the carriage and Time Warner.

Where you could get SportsSouth the broadcast/production quality, and Sam Wyche, sucked. You can scrap better crap off the bottom of your boots AND the SoCon PAID hundreds of thousands of dollars for it!

Thanks, Charter, and SportsSouth Don't let the door hit yah in the arse on your way out!

It remains to be seen how the new arrangements with PBS will work out. If the production quality improves I'm all in as it will be much improved over the manure we have had to eat over the last few years. As I understand it, the SoCon also retains re-broadcast rights which may be sold to the folks we previously had to pay for live broadcasts.

I've never used the ASU-Live or SoCon-TV services, but if they are subsequently tied to a higher-production broadcast with PBS, that becomes a good thing, too (and the arrangements with PBS also include basketball!). Let's face facts -- if you ain't positioned to deliver high quality feeds over the internet you are backing up.

Radio: A-

David Jackson and Steve Brown do a great job. The radio network (way more than a dozen stations) covers the western part of the state, east Tennessee, Charlotte, the Piedmont Triad and the Research Triangle. We need a few more stations 'down east' along the coast to p-off the EZU fans.

[Grizalltheway]

You ever heard of thing called Big Sky TV ?

All I've ever heard about Big Sky TV was that it was just about worse than nothing.

God forbid you try it and find out for yourself, but I guess you wouldn't want to strain yourself by signing up for a free service.

[LDopaPDX]

Eastern now has about half of their games on SWX, which airs in Spokane on a network affiliate (I think it's UPN or something) and usually also gets picked up in Seattle and Portland unless it conflicts with something else (in Portland, that usually means U of Oregon games of lesser importance that are carried locally only). Radio coverage is now pretty good, all across the state of Washington and Northern Idaho. Newspaper coverage has always been a mixed bag, but is now considered one of the bigger events in the Spokane market... slightly less than Washington State (but only slightly given that they are the worst program in the BCS for the last 3 years running) and slightly better than UW from the other side of the state. The Seattle market gives next to zero in EWU coverage, but it at least is getting it's own article now vs. just a blurb in previous years.

[LDopaPDX]

The bigskytv.org network does a really good job airing all conference or conference-promoted games on the b2tv.com site. The Big Sky was quite a pioneer in getting all games on a live online feed.

[SuperHornet]

I didn't realize BSTV had gone free. I got turned off to it seeing all the whining about it while they were a fee-based service that charged, but consistently dropped feed.

[cats2506]

I didn't realize BSTV had gone free. I got turned off to it seeing all the whining about it while they were a fee-based service that charged, but consistently dropped feed.

Something like 3 years ago

[Ivytalk]

Harvard gets below-the-fold coverage by the Globe and a few column-inches from the New York Times for The Game. That's about it.