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CU has rejoined the Big 12 and broken college football - talking out asses continues

Fred 2 said:
You don’t get it! They will watch something else or play some stupid vidio game. They
won’t pay for a college football game to save their lives unless it’s their team and if it’s on in the back ground at their party. The ( networks or who ever). are losing a whole generation. The nfl is very close and cb is right there. I’m not paying extra to watch certain games that I don’t give a rats ass about but will watch on a casual basis. I don’t know when the last time I watched a championship game? I think it was tx vs sc. Mainly because it was always Ala. vs somebody
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DAMN RIGHT FRED! These damn kids with their Taylor Swifts and the fact that they're spoiled (that has NOTHING to do with their Boomer parents who demanded everyone know how special their little children are) are walking away! THEY'LL NEVER STREAM!

PAC MAN said:
It's time to ask RG what the plan for CU basketball is going forward.
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"Basket-what?"
 
CUAviator said:
Yeah, I get that. But the term came from having to watch something when it’s on, followed by the next program - in a linear fashion.
Having “streaming apps” allows you to watch whatever you want whenever you want.
Doesn’t matter if it’s ESPN, FS, Hulu, Apple - with live sports, you still have to watch it when it’s on. Folks on here keep taking about not wanting to be tied to some sort of schedule. But I don’t get that.
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People started using "linear" to mean only "broadcast or traditional cable," which, as you note, is not accurate and generally reflects their poor reasoning skills and small vocabularies.

The dichotomies are:
Linear vs On-Demand
And
Streaming vs Broadcast.

You can, in fact, stream linear programing, and many people do.

You can also watch a linear program later with on-demand. But you can generally only do that on a streaming platform unless you "recorded" the linear broadcast.

100% of all games will be linear. It is, as you note, how live sports work.

The question is if the games will be linear programming exclusively on a streaming platform, or if they will be linear programming on broadcast and streaming platforms.
 
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skibum said:
Fred learning that there is a search and mutiquote function:

Oh No Reaction GIF by Breaking Bad
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skibum said:
People started using "linear" to mean only "broadcast or traditional cable," which, as you note, is not accurate and generally reflects their poor reasoning skills and small vocabularies.

The dichotomies are:
Linear vs On-Demand
And
Streaming vs Broadcast.

You can, in fact, stream a linear programing, and many people do.

You can also watch a linear program later with on-demand. But you can generally only do that on a streaming platform unless you "recorded" the linear broadcast.

100% of all games will be linear. It is, as you note, how live sports work.

The question is the games will be linear programming exclusively on a streaming platform, or if they will be linear programming on broadcast and streaming platforms.
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thanks. this makes far more sense than the way 'linear' has been previously described on this forum
 
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hokiehead said:
thanks. this makes far more sense than the way 'linear' has been previously described on this forum
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the reason it is referred to as linear: think back to how tv was presented via broadcast--- you had set shows come on at set times. some of the shows were live (like football) and some were pre-recorded. but, all were pre-planned to air at a set time in a linear row. remember the matrix guide that would tell you when something was coming on so you could plan around it?

the key issue is and has always been (as ski bum notes) is how the content is delivered to a viewer. there was over the air, then cable, then sat, and then pure "over the top" via wireless network.

the cable guys were top dogs for a long time because they had territorial exclusivity-- only one company was granted the rights to lay cable in a particular area.

sat disrupted this right? and then everything available OTT...

i should mention that technically there are some hard wired old networks that aren't "cable" and are really "telco" but that is a foot note at this point.

owning the pipes into the house used to be the whole ball game. now the pipes are just a delivery method and that is why everything is in flux.
 
hokiehead said:
as I watch the Pac fall apart, I can't help but wonder if there was an opportunity to merge w/ the XII that was passed up
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I think the opportunity has always been there, and probably still exists. It would require conference leadership to collaborate and work towards a common goal, which is a difficult thing to accomplish.

Essentially, take the top half of the B12, PAC 12, and ACC and create an entirely new conference. In order to do that, all three conferences would have to dissolve and then re-form. Possible? Sure. Likely? Absolutely not.
 
Liver said:
the reason it is referred to as linear: think back to how tv was presented via broadcast--- you had set shows come on at set times. some of the shows were live (like football) and some were pre-recorded. but, all were pre-planned to air at a set time in a linear row. remember the matrix guide that would tell you when something was coming on so you could plan around it?

the key issue is and has always been (as ski bum notes) is how the content is delivered to a viewer. there was over the air, then cable, then sat, and then pure "over the top" via wireless network.

the cable guys were top dogs for a long time because they had territorial exclusivity-- only one company was granted the rights to lay cable in a particular area.

sat disrupted this right? and then everything available OTT...

i should mention that technically there are some hard wired old networks that aren't "cable" and are really "telco" but that is a foot note at this point.

owning the pipes into the house used to be the whole ball game. now the pipes are just a delivery method and that is why everything is in flux.
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I had to check the author of this post twice in my disbelief that it wasn't written by Mtn.
 
Not Sure said:
I think the opportunity has always been there, and probably still exists. It would require conference leadership to collaborate and work towards a common goal, which is a difficult thing to accomplish.

Essentially, take the top half of the B12, PAC 12, and ACC and create an entirely new conference. In order to do that, all three conferences would have to dissolve and then re-form. Possible? Sure. Likely? Absolutely not.
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agree. also, when I get around to checking NOLA off my bucket list, I'm coming to you first for an itinerary
 
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