Brewers re-up w/ FSN-WI

[Godspeed]

Link.

 

No length or financial terms announced, but you gotta think it's better than the bottom-of-the-barrel contract Attanasio inherited.

[TuesdaysWithRillo]

Maybe they'll actually show a game in HD now and not make the Bucks a higher priority?

[TheCrew07]

Well they didn't answer many questions did they?

 

Does this mean the end of MLMW broadcasts? HD? Financial Terms? How many games per season? Do the Bucks still take priority? Inquiring minds want to know these things.

 

A better deal could mean 5-6 mill per season for the payroll.

[rm121978]

I doubt anything HD-related is in the agreement. Showing games in HD is dependent on so many other factors that I dobut FSN would commit themselves to anything, and the Brewers probably wouldn't force it as they likely have the big-business mentality that HD is still a niche product.

 

As long as the financial terms were good for the team, I'm happy. And I'm guessing the fact that this happened so long before the current deal was up meant that FSN wanted to make sure nobody swept up this contract from under them and offered the Brewers enough $ to make worth their while not to shop it around to other outlets.

[brewmann04]

i agree if the crew can get more money good for them and their payroll. I would wish the crew and FIWIS could force Direct TV to make it a Permeant Station ,instead of regional.

[phxMILWfan]

My favorite part is the "minimum of 150 regular season games". I'll take my chances that the other teams feed will cover the other 12 games I guess. I don't see why it is so hard to just televise every game. We want to see every game. What could you possibly put on during that time slot that would get better ratings. My only other thought is that of the potential 12 games not televised there would be some Sunday Night Baseball appearances or MLB Network showing the game instead. It's crazy to me that in 2009 there are professional sports games that are not on TV at all.

[Bankjob]

I do not think the Bucks "take priority," but the network is the primary viewing network for both teams and there seasons overlap for just under a month. I love to watch the Brewers and am indifferent to the Bucks like most Wisconsinites, however they maybe have 2 or 3 games on total during the Brewers season. I dont see the emphasis on the complaints about them being on TV. It not like they are playing cricket, the NBA is a pretty popular league.

[Invader3K]

That is quite the vague news article. Is this agreement an extension of the existing one (which ran through 2012 I thought)? Or does this completely replace it. Just really lacking in any details.

 

Reading through the comments section on the JSOnline blog hurt my head, though.

[MickeyDavis]

Reading through the comments section on the JSOnline blog hurt my head, though.

A lot of mental midgets are always posting on the blogs.

[endaround]

My favorite part is the "minimum of 150 regular season games". I'll take my chances that the other teams feed will cover the other 12 games I guess. I don't see why it is so hard to just televise every game. We want to see every game. What could you possibly put on during that time slot that would get better ratings. My only other thought is that of the potential 12 games not televised there would be some Sunday Night Baseball appearances or MLB Network showing the game instead. It's crazy to me that in 2009 there are professional sports games that are not on TV at all.

 

There are still Saturday afternoon blackouts for Fox

[Diskono]

^^ And Sunday night for ESPN.

[Invader3K]

I wish some more details on this would come out...at least in terms of the basis for this "new deal."

[BrewCrewForever]

I just hope they put ALL the game in HD next season. It is still my dream that one day Attanasio get's the Brewers their own channel ala the YES Network. It's a long shot but it would be awesome.

[Invader3K]

Yeah, then they could keep pretty much all of the revenue from it. It would be huge, I just don't know how viable something like that would be in Wisconsin, where customers have already had a bad taste in their mouths from stuff like the Big Ten and NFL Network fiascos.

[BrewCrewForever]

I'd also like to see FS-WI now do more Brewers related programs. More classic games, maybe a weekly roundup type show for the week that was or something.

[Invader3K]

More classic games would be kind of cool, though if they only stuck to the last two or three years like they were doing this past off-season, it would get old quick. A weekly roundup show would be neat as well.

[jeffy]

Not much, but a few more details in the news story here:

 

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/44098727.html

[MickeyDavis]

Many years ago the Brewers did have their own network, in partnership with the Bucks. It was called Wisconsin Sportsvue. Selig and Bucks owner Jim Fitzgerald formed it. They also had some Badger sports. It was offered at (I think) about $12 a month, like HBO or Showtime. Eventually it merged with other networks and became Midwest Sportsvue and then it died.

[BrewCrewForever]

Many years ago the Brewers did have their own network, in partnership with the Bucks. It was called Wisconsin Sportsvue. Selig and Bucks owner Jim Fitzgerald formed it. They also had some Badger sports. It was offered at (I think) about $12 a month, like HBO or Showtime. Eventually it merged with other networks and became Midwest Sportsvue and then it died.

Obviously myself and many on here are fanatics so I would have no problem whatsoever to pay $12 a month for something like that.

[MickeyDavis]

I don't remember how long it was around or exactly when. Fitzgerald sold the Bucks in 1985 so it was before then. Certainly a different era of TV now than then. I don't know how feasible it would be for a market like ours to have the team own their own network, get it carried on all of the cable/sat channels, sell all the ads, and make more than they do now from FSN.