ABC Scales Back NBA Playoff Coverage
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When CBS and NBC had the rights to the NBA, they seemed to give a damn about televising their games.
ABC won't even show a majority of the games- it worked for NBC. Why not SHOW moe games?! Maybe, just maybe, their philosophy on how to showcase the games is not working.
ABC won't even show a majority of the games- it worked for NBC. Why not SHOW moe games?! Maybe, just maybe, their philosophy on how to showcase the games is not working.
I think that a lot of it has to do with Disney (the owners of ABC and ESPN) having the current philosophy that the more marquee/major events go to cable, the more they can charge for subscription fees (to go along with the ad revenue). This is part of the reason why Monday Night Football moved from ABC to ESPN (even though under the current contract, ESPN doesn't get any playoff broadcasts unlike in the last contract with ABC). Also, ABC seems to be looking at a lot of big time sports as toxic right now (besides the risk of taking on a loss leader) because they see shows like Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy to be more valuable commodities. David Stern also believes that the less amount of games air on ABC will equal in the games being seen as a bigger deal (due to the demand).
The NBA is far from the 3rd most popular sport in the US.
Anyway, this is odd. The marketing of the late NBA playoffs is pretty simple. The NBA has the advantage of schedule. The first run part of network TV is over and you toss this stuff up against that.
It seems that ABC is really going to carry college football on Saturdays and that is it.
Anyway, this is odd. The marketing of the late NBA playoffs is pretty simple. The NBA has the advantage of schedule. The first run part of network TV is over and you toss this stuff up against that.
It seems that ABC is really going to carry college football on Saturdays and that is it.
football
baseball
basketball
if we're talking pro sports. if college sports only, its second. if we combine them, nba is probably 4th.
This league has become a joke. Contraction is needed. You can't count the number of contenders this season on one hand now. After Kobe, LeBron, and Wade, who is there to watch?
Boring, just boring. But then i always thought it was boring, I strongly prefer watching college BB.
Boring, just boring. But then i always thought it was boring, I strongly prefer watching college BB.
I'm watching Motorcycle racing on the weekends. I just watch basketball when the playoffs start. I wish the networks would start showing different sports like Wide World of Sports did back in the 1970's.
Carmelo Anthony/Chauncey Billups(denver)
Pierce/KG/Allen(Boston)
Durant(Oklahoma City)
Zach Randolph/Rudy Gay/OJ Mayo(Memphis)
Al Horford/the whole team(Atlanta)
Dwight Howard(Orlando)
Tim Duncan(Spurs)
Derrick Rose(Chicago)
The entire Portland team when not injured
are those enough contenders for you?
I think because Paul lumped them together, we're confusing contenders with exciting players.
I like your list of exciting players (and I would add some Mavericks and Suns to the list), but those teams are not all contenders.
For contenders you definitely have Cleveland, LA, Boston, Orlando, Denver and San Antonio. Teams that can knock off one of these teams but probably not win it all are Atlanta, Dallas, Portland and Phoenix.
While it will quite possibly come down to Cleveland/LA, it's not as cut and dried as Paul said.
Sandra
