We should give this network in the sky a catchy name. . . sky network. . . sky net. . . Skynet! I love it! There's no way this could backfire!
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We should give this network in the sky a catchy name. . . sky network. . . sky net. . . Skynet! I love it! There's no way this could backfire!
Formula 1 has been doing this for years with their world feed broadcast. The challenge is similar, but scaled many times for F1 (many locations, insane infrastructure requirements, etc). A standard feed with on track sounds, graphics and stats is sent out worldwide for networks to commentate over. It works quite well.It is funny, cause Terry and I were just talking after the podcast on Tuesday about sending a raw feed to another place where they could commentate over it, like another language or something. Or maybe just for fun like to the DGComedy guy.
As far as a "dots" style integration. I have thought about it a lot. And we would need a few things.
1. High quality images or graphics of each hole. Either from Google Earth, or maybe a nicely designed graphic.
2. An additional person to mark where the disc landed. And then do we care HOW it got there? Do we care if it bounced off a tree to get there, how accurate do we want our "lines" to be. Or do we just care where it ended up?
Building on their success, the DGPT planned to get into the dynamic ad market in 2019. To do that they needed to 'own' their broadcast and distribution platform (Disc Golf Network Channel). Meaning they needed to bring it in-house and restructure their relationships with their live and post broadcast crews.
In addition to the dynamic exchanges not yet being proven, the effort to transition in the off season outstripped the capacity of the staff and things went poorly as many on this site have pointed out throughout the year. When it came time for the Memorial, the roll-out went from being 'clunky' to not working at all, ie delivering no ad revenue. The people who sold Steve on the concept quickly evaporated leaving Steve to hold the bag.
As the season went on, Steve chased a few false hopes then ultimately reverted back to past practices.
Amazingly, he delivered a broadcast for every event. To do it, however, he took it on the chin publicly, ended up breaking promises and burning some bridges.
In the end, the financial hit from the misfire was too big to be handled by the cash flow from the tour.
Did not mean to paint Steve as innocent. Just providing context. No doubt he handled communications and feedback from existing partners poorly.
The people who left early in the year were not disc golf folks as far as I know. But I could be wrong.
You're wise to have recognized the potential of ads/broadcast revenue. Early on I believe Steve was counting on revenue from the disc golf carnival that didn't materialize as planned.
Dodge should have hired Jeff Spring to be the face/voice of the DGPT and let Dodge handle the biz behind the scenes.
And it won't come out of no where and be good. It takes time and development and we are seeing that happen in front of us. I seriously don't understand criticizing the push by Steve for trying to get things like live coverage up to his vision instead of a bit of praise and to think I wonder how long until we get live coverage? Things need a starting point and time. ****ting on the guy that pushes to get stuff rolling and developed because the initial quality isn't up to the level of something like a major broadcast sports network is silly.
now that i realize that some of the people doing the work are in this thread, please allow me to back pedal
i don't enjoy the live product but thank you all for your effort and hard work. we have to start somewhere and you are getting the ball rolling.
Whoa, didn't see that coming.
FYI, this is the BILLIONAIRE Todd Rainwater. Holy smokes. Disc golf's been asking for a big time investor. Well, this is pretty big folks. Google him. It's that Todd Rainwater, son of Richard Rainwater.
Jomez back in the picture for DGPT (or I assume so based on their reaction)!