Doug Gotlieb says...

No way OU channel is going to be feasible. The athletic department will have to stream everything live online at a higher rate with more programming, that is the way most television services are moving anyway.
 
OU channel is not feasible, unless OSU and Thunder are involved
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You sure about that Doug Gotdweeb????????

OU wants to launch TV channel this year

by: JOHN E. HOOVER World Sports Writer Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The University of Oklahoma wants to have its own television channel up and operating sometime during 2011.

“That’s our goal,” OU senior associate athletic director Kenny Mossman said.

On Wednesday, the University of Texas and ESPN announced they reached a 20-year, $300 million agreement for the network to provide exclusive UT content on a new channel. The news spurred questions about a topic that came up frequently during last summer’s conference realignment talks, like when will OU launch its own TV channel?

“I wish I could tell you exactly when,” Mossman said. “But we’ve worked on it long enough and have enough of an idea of what our model will resemble that we feel confident we’ll be launching something in the not-too-distant future.”

Mossman said he didn’t think OU’s model would be the same as Texas’ — one independent network providing all the content — but said, “that’s not inconceivable.”

An article in last month’s Sports Business Journal reported that OU and its multimedia rights holder, Learfield Sports, have had discussed partnering on a channel with Fox Sports Net, Cox Cable and ESPN, and said Cox and Fox were considered front-runners in the deal, conceivably with FSN providing content and Cox providing distribution.

OU signed a 10-year, $75 million extension with Learfield in September 2007.

Mossman noted that two years ago, OU spent $2.5 million on a high-definition control room, cameras and upgrades to the TV studio at Owen Field. The primary purpose for that was to operate the new $9.6 million high-definition video boards (including those at Lloyd Noble Center). A new studio would be needed for an OU channel if it’s produced on campus, but at least the groundwork is in place.

“What we have here,” Mossman said, “is some infrastructure that puts us in a little different position than maybe some other schools.”

Over the past few years, Mossman said, OU has positioned itself “to do this at least somewhat independently if we have to. If we don’t, then we’ll align with an organization or network that would allow us to go about it a different way.”

Sports Business Journal reported that OU is targeting a launch date for next fall, and athletic director Joe Castiglione told the Journal OU was “making good progress” and was “being diligent” to “develop a product that can be sustained for the long-term.” Said Mossman: “We don’t want to announce something and have a big splash and then two years later it’s not there any more. We want to make sure we’ve done our due diligence for something that can stand the test of time.”

The new OU channel, on a 24-hour basis, will provide original programming that includes live and recorded Olympic sporting events, coaches’ shows and possibly men’s and women’s basketball games and even a football game or two each year (which would depending largely on the Big 12’s TV contracts; the league’s deal with Fox expires after 2011 and ABC ESPN expires after 2015).

There also would be plenty of historic programming, such as Barry Switzer or Bud Wilkinson coaches shows, and replay of historic Sooner games. It also likely would include campus events and even some academic programming, though the basis will be in sports.

“It’s an opportunity for us to get pretty creative,” Mossman said. “We’d have a TV channel to fill, and I think that’s pretty exciting to think about what kind of TV system we could put together that our fans would enjoy.”
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he also said the Big 10 channel would not be feasible a couple of years ago......how'd that work out
 
I think I'll trust our Athletic Department's evaluation and analysis of the situation instead of Doug Gottleib.
 
pillmanj said:
He also said on the radio today that he thinks we will get Cezar Guerrero
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That's really encouraging. Doug's brother is an assistant at Cal so I'm guessing his info is coming from pretty connected sources out there.
 
1. I may disagree with Gotdweeb, but I can see where he's coming from. He has a rational basis for that opinion.

2. I actually like Dougie and I think he has a lot of good insight regarding collegiate sports and basketball in particular.

3. so he went to OSUx...big deal...get over it. So did Barry Sanders and he was/is amazing. Hank Iba was also amazing. LeeRoy Combs was the goods too.
 
coolm said:
1. I may disagree with Gotdweeb, but I can see where he's coming from. He has a rational basis for that opinion.

2. I actually like Dougie and I think he has a lot of good insight regarding collegiate sports and basketball in particular.

3. so he went to OSUx...big deal...get over it. So did Barry Sanders and he was/is amazing. Hank Iba was also amazing. LeeRoy Combs was the goods too.
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Agree on all 3 points. One of my best friends is a former GA under the Suttons who is now a 5A head coach. We respect each others preference on schools .... and he laughs and jokes about Dougie as much as anyone.
 
This may be a situation where first in gets the deal done. In todays cable and dish market there is a limit to how many sports networks are feasible. Early bird will get the worm.
 
OU will get a channel at half of what texas is getting or more .. 10mil a year+
 
coolm said:
1. I may disagree with Gotdweeb, but I can see where he's coming from. He has a rational basis for that opinion.

2. I actually like Dougie and I think he has a lot of good insight regarding collegiate sports and basketball in particular.

3. so he went to OSUx...big deal...get over it. So did Barry Sanders and he was/is amazing. Hank Iba was also amazing. LeeRoy Combs was the goods too.
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+1, Doug is one of the best collegiate commentators in the game.

I'm a still skeptical that we'll see a brick and mortar OU channel on DirectTV, I know the OU athletic department has stated it is their "goal" but I still feel internet programming with rise of broadband television is the way to go. Cut a bunch of the overhead costs and can reach more customers, especially in an age when more and more people are watching TV online. Just makes more strategic sense to me.
 
coolm said:
1. I may disagree with Gotdweeb, but I can see where he's coming from. He has a rational basis for that opinion.

2. I actually like Dougie and I think he has a lot of good insight regarding collegiate sports and basketball in particular.

3. so he went to OSUx...big deal...get over it. So did Barry Sanders and he was/is amazing. Hank Iba was also amazing. LeeRoy Combs was the goods too.
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I think he is one of the best college basketball media personalities out there.

With that being said, that's the only time I'll put much stock into what he says.

It has nothing to do with him being from OSU, I just think he is ill-informed quite a bit when the topic isn't involving college basketball.
 
Doug is excellent at covering college basketball. As far as commenting on the business side of an OU television network and whether it will or will not work? Well let's just say I wouldn't consider him an authority on that subject.
 
seniorsooner said:
Doug is excellent at covering college basketball. As far as commenting on the business side of an OU television network and whether it will or will not work? Well let's just say I wouldn't consider him an authority on that subject.
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I would give him credit for having more potential sources of information for that topic than many others so I disagree. He works in broadcasting, college sports broadcasting at that, and he may very well work with many who are articulate on the subject.
 
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