I was saying that profitability of media rights was another discussion which was irrelevant to the point at hand (whether rights COULD be sold or not). Sorry for the confusion. Profit is definitely not irrelevant.
Ok, gonna have to get tough love on you. Sorry in advance.
Your mentality is the problem. You're freeloading on and taking advantage of the insanely cheap services and good will of people. The people you mentioned aren't making jack sh*t for money. They will either burn out or accept working multiple jobs, giving up their weekends turning cuts over at speeds that people get paid a decent living wage to, for an ungrateful audience who doesn't want the sport to grow because it means their free ride is over.
The worst part is, you've lied to yourself and said "it's good coverage". All of our round coverage is crap. I'm including myself in that, and I'm not firing shots. I'll be the first to critique my own work and point out its flaws. The equipment we use is garbage for image quality, and the execution is average at best. DGPlanet has better equipment than all of the rest of us combined, to give you an idea. What you mean to say is "it's good enough, because I get it for free".
How do we get DG to look good on camera? How do we get a better class of athlete populating the top tournaments? How do we get better looking courses that are also challenging as well as spectator-friendly? It's very simple, and all the same answer: We get rid of the freeloaders and cheapskates.
What I'm saying, from my experiences abroad with disc golf so far, is that it is already happening here, and will soon spread to the US. So prepare yourself.[/QUOTE
Ok then let us tell the people who are doing it on donations stop and we can wait til companies start paying people to film, for expensive equipment and all that other stuff. Not gonna happen anytime soon. Maybe it just a little wishful thinking on your part to get paid more, who knows.
On another note, to say I am cheap is incorrect. I have made donations to show my support for what they do. I play p2p courses. I invest in the game. But you do realize that this game was based on freeloaders and cheapskates. And as the saying goes, once you give someone something for free, it is near impossible to make them pay for it again.
