So ESPN can't find time for pool?

Pin said:
I do like the idea. I don't know if it would catch on, but who knows.
A lot of places do live streaming now. The concept could be tested with a hub linking people in to lots of interesting streams, but you'd have no editing or commentary working for you.

I wonder if a 'wide world of sport' style package of edited footage from streams of different cuesports around the word would work. I think again it would be dependent on finding a way to present it in a compelling way.
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Look at the viewer numbers of any one doing live streaming from pool rooms, TV MIKE is always streaming pool tournaments, asking for donations to support his live streaming, but look at how many are watching his stream....15, 21, 24 viewers!!!

No body cares who's playing, that's why, not worth anyone's time to watch a couple of local players playing on the "TV" table!!!!
 
realkingcobra said:
And then you have Jimmy, who's never won any event, but sells cars for a living, likes fishing, hunting, and BBQ's but is also known to gamble with anyone if they spot him enough weight. He comes and plays in thses events in the hopes of snapping someone off on the side, because he don't stand a chance of winning the event, he just comes for the gambling!


Is that how you introduce the nobody's to the viewing audience to keep it exciting and hold their attention span?
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No, you have a 9-ball race to 100 and have to fire a cannon every 2 games to wake everybody up.
 
realkingcobra said:
Look at the viewer numbers of any one doing live streaming from pool rooms, TV MIKE is always streaming pool tournaments, asking for donations to support his live streaming, but look at how many are watching his stream....15, 21, 24 viewers!!!

No body cares who's playing, that's why, not worth anyone's time to watch a couple of local players playing on the "TV" table!!!!
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That's a bigger audience than you are wasting hours with here trying to convince them they don't know anything about anything.

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realkingcobra said:
Look at the viewer numbers of any one doing live streaming from pool rooms, TV MIKE is always streaming pool tournaments, asking for donations to support his live streaming, but look at how many are watching his stream....15, 21, 24 viewers!!!

No body cares who's playing, that's why, not worth anyone's time to watch a couple of local players playing on the "TV" table!!!!
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My feeling is not *that* many more people would care with top players either. Unless someone gets the formula right. But who knows?
 
Pin said:
My feeling is not *that* many more people would care with top players either. Unless someone gets the formula right. But who knows?
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Again, are you speaking for the foreign viewing audiences around the world? What other countries have hosted race to 100 matches??
 
Pin said:
My feeling is not *that* many more people would care with top players either. Unless someone gets the formula right. But who knows?
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How many events in the United States are broadcast delayed to other countries around the world so those VIEWERS can watch the events when they're awake, instead of sleeping while the US Open 9b event is taking place???
 
realkingcobra said:
How many events in the United States are broadcast delayed to other countries around the world so those VIEWERS can watch the events when they're awake, instead of sleeping while the US Open 9b event is taking place???
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I don't know. What countries and what are the viewing figures?
 
justnum said:
ESPN is not as important as distributors.

The best way to introduce the sport is to have distribution of equipment.

Very few mainstream stores carry billiards or billiards related equipment. The magazines or stores that do carry the equipment are substandard and can make for a bad experience.

ESPN viewing audience its too segmented they have like 12 channels. Its not the ESPN of the 90s.

Todays ESPN is for specific sports market. ESpN feels like a recruiting tool for college athletes to become interested in specific colleges or sports.

a parent looking for their kids to have fun at home might make the purchase.
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Good points.
 
Who watches TV anymore anyways?

This is all pointless. Arguing over something that ain’t happening.

Nobody got the memo it’s 2021 not 1975……
 
Fatboy said:
Good points.
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Maybe if there was a reason to play pool, and be the best, with lessons, equipment purchases, the whole purpose of becoming a professional pool player, because the professionals are actually making a great living, thats the incentive needed to support pool at a young age, because those young players might just have a future as upcoming professionals pool players too.
 
Fatboy said:
Who watches TV anymore anyways?

This is all pointless. Arguing over something that ain’t happening.

Nobody got the memo it’s 2021 not 1975……
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Everyone was lied to by the networks, promoting cutting the cord, cable was so expensive, cut the cord. Now look at the cost of trying to watch all the shows you were able to watch on cable, almost every different show requires a different subscription, totalling way more than anyone was paying for cable!!! Or, you just give up watching all the subscription platforms available to watch today, and pick the ones that have more of what you want to watch, and miss out on the rest. Or you cansel you're subscriptions m, switch to another for a while to get caught up, then cansel again and sign up to another, its an endless cycle today, and more expensive!

All the streaming platforms have successfully displaced the viewing audience so well, they're seeing it in the advertisers not paying as much in advertising per subscription platform!! They did it to themselves!!
 
realkingcobra said:
TV has been replaced by subscription streaming platforms, didn't you get that memo?😅🤣
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Lol, no. I don’t use the internet.

Except for AZB and checking my email once a day at the most I’m not online.

I’ve never used FB once, no Twitter, none of that garbage.

I don’t watch netflix, prime or any of the others which I don’t even know their names.

maybe I’m missing the whole picture here. Would seem to me if there was more interest in pool there would be more pool out in the wild, you know like new pool rooms opening, and people talking about pool. Most people under 25 don’t know what pool is.

seems to me there are other more viable things to sell than a relic of the past.

none of the rich people I know have a clue about pool. They all have a box in their mansions-95% maybe 1/20 doesn’t have a box. And of the 19 who do have a box 18 have never hit a ball. I mention pool to them and they just know it’s a table in a room of their mansion. This isn’t a small sample of data-I know plenty of $ people, some only casually but I talk to them and it ain’t looking good for pool. Poker (which I don’t play) on the other hand seems to be waking up again.
 
Fatboy said:
Lol, no. I don’t use the internet.

Except for AZB and checking my email once a day at the most I’m not online.

I’ve never used FB once, no Twitter, none of that garbage.

I don’t watch netflix, prime or any of the others which I don’t even know their names.

maybe I’m missing the whole picture here. Would seem to me if there was more interest in pool there would be more pool out in the wild, you know like new pool rooms opening, and people talking about pool. Most people under 25 don’t know what pool is.

seems to me there are other more viable things to sell than a relic of the past.

none of the rich people I know have a clue about pool. They all have a box in their mansions-95% maybe 1/20 doesn’t have a box. And of the 19 who do have a box 18 have never hit a ball. I mention pool to them and they just know it’s a table in a room of their mansion. This isn’t a small sample of data-I know plenty of $ people, some only casually but I talk to them and it ain’t looking good for pool. Poker (which I don’t play) on the other hand seems to be waking up again.
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You'd be surprised at the percentage of pool tables Diamond sells out of country vs US sales!! Pool is growing everywhere else around the world except the US, why do you think that is?
 
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