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I think its Scott Kitto in the white jacket
Don Mackey Back?
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L.S. Dennis
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Last I heard Mackey was living down in Florida I believe but this was quite a while ago.
VTEC John
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I suspect the more discerning ex-PBTers in that photo are already asking who owns all those matches that are going to be digitized and how they as individuals stand to make money from them. What, if anything, did it take to get Sigel, Davenport and Pierce to associate their names with this whatever-it-is? I doubt many of the old guard have forgotten the last time Mackey was in charge of marketing them to the world. I remember the year when a lower/middle-tier player named Nikki Benisch earned more on the women's tour than Strickland did on the men's. That was a result of how Mackey handled negotiations with ESPN. Most interesting to me is how Matchroom responds. Are they suddenly facing a more uphill battle to continue monetizing this sport, or is there room for two elephants in the room?
There’s already two elephants in the room. One is Matchroom and the other is Predator.
With there being NFTs involved, I’m guessing there were “pie in the sky” dreams as to the money that could be made from content that was just sitting there gathering dust.
With there being NFTs involved, I’m guessing there were “pie in the sky” dreams as to the money that could be made from content that was just sitting there gathering dust.
With more quality free match content out there than anybody could watch in a lifetime I highly doubt their library of tournament matches is all that valuable. Sure, many people would love to see it, but I doubt many would be willing to pay to see it. I also highly doubt they are going to create new content of such value that they are going to be making a bundle on subscriber income, just too much other free good content out there including instructionals and podcasts etc. Maybe I'm wrong but I feel pretty confident about my guesses.
L.S. Dennis
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What tournament content does the PBT own that isn’t already part of the AccuStats domain? Just curious,,,
That is a very good question. I don't see any matches in the catalog that are labeled as PBT. Pat would know for sure, but I will be finding out.
I put the over under on the probilliardstour website going away at 8 months, and no actual content ever made available. Much ado about nothing, IMO.
Mackey and the PBT likely doesn't "own" any of the PBT matches in a literal sense. It's a near-certainty that Mackey had someone assiduously videotape every PBT match that was broadcasted nationwide.
The broadcasted matches routinely had five commercial breaks -- for region-specific sponsors, as well as billiards-related products of national interest -- per broadcast hour, spaced 12 minutes apart, which usual resulted in missing games in any given hour of action due to network time constraints in a given time slot allotted to billiards.
As to ownership of the raw uncompressed footage (with no missing games), which generally far exceeded an hour, that's what you'll be learning about in your research.
Arnaldo
Matchroom can't spell PBT. This has got as much chance of taking off as brick. Web pages are cheap.
I'm guessing, but it looks like it could be Spanish Mike Lebron behind Rempe and Terry Bell behind Sigel.
Not sure if this is Ronnie Wiseman on the end in the white coat, but I can find out lickedly split on Facebook. Here is Ronnie's PBT photo back in the day.
