Match Coverage - Your Thoughts
 

Hi all
I'm canvassing opinion on match coverage for the new season and would appreciate your input.

If ASFC provided online commentary of all first team games, with some video highlights, as a subscription service would you subscribe?

Not sure on figures but it would almost certainly be less than £50 a season (and hopefully significantly less) with a monthly option available too.

For context purposes, this service would use the existing website and would not involve changing to the style that most other FL clubs have. It would not change any of the current coverage (i.e. you would not have to subscribe to get post match interviews etc)

It would be a fairly straightforward case of paying to access a members area of the website where the commentary feed (and match highlights) would be available.

This is all at the preliminary stage (and subject to FL approval - God it's complicated!) but I just wanted to know what people thought.

Fundamentally, if only 20 people subscribed it would be a pointless exercise.

Thoughts welcome!
Dan

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If you are talking full match commentry and a fiver a month (I presume it would be 10 months a year at most) then I'd be interested

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Dan,

Take it you'll stress it's NOT FLi !! Or have you sold your soul!!!:mad:

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Certainly sounds a promising idea and as I am intending to be away for part of next season and eventually planning to live abroad permanently then yes I am very interested.

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Sounds like a good idea Dan and this is something many other clubs currently do. We would definitely subscribe! It will also provide another income source to the football club, albeit small but every little helps!

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Amazing how breaking it down makes it sound great value :D

Good luck with the idea Dan, hope it takes off

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By online commentary do you mean live "Audio" as opposed to text? If so I'd be interested, along with I imagine quite a few other "Foreigners"! :)

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To clarify on a couple of points:

- this wouldn't be the Football League Interactive service (as many other clubs have) it would be bespoke and unique to ASFC
- the match coverage would be full match audio commentary on the games
- the official website would be the only place in the world where you could get online match commentary

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This sounds like it would be an improvement on the present match coverage but , as ever, cost would be the deciding factor. Perhaps pre season games could be used as 'samplers' before deciding to buy

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sign me up Mr Jewell at the Crown

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I would happily pay for such a service. My only worry would be the number of times last year there were 'internet' problems with the live text service, particularly at away games.

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Hope you guys don't mind someone from the opposition giving my thoughts on this subject.

We at MFC use Player (like the vast majority of League clubs) for all match day coverage via the web for both home and away games using our own commentators who provide a superb (and often amusing) full match day audio coverage. The cost is free to all season ticket holders and to others a very small fee.

It's benefits include being able to log into ALL other League club Player broadcasts which can give a different perspective on the same game.

Player also provides pre and post match interviews with management, players and anybody else connected with the club including introducing new signings to all those who have access to Player and recently to a wider audience via You Tube.

Whatever you guys decide is best for you I can guarantee that it will be a most welcome addition to your clubs media coverage.

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Understand that this may not be what you want to hear but don't think I'd want to pay more than £30 a season for this sort of service.

My reckoning on that is £1 per away game rounded up.

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Interesting prospect, Dan.
The last thing I am is a computer-techy (as you may guess from this question) but is it possible to estimate how many megabites would be used up during a match broadcast? Sorry, if that's an impossible question to answer, but I have a limit on the amount I can download.

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It depends on the quality of the audio but you can get a ballpark estimate by looking at the file size of a high quality (320Kbps) mp3.

I'd reckon that you'd be listening for around 2 hours given half time and a bit of pre-match build up. That would come to around 288MB which is around 0.25GB.

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Thanks, SamF.

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I would be interested Dan,but only for about half the games when our daylight saving is in force and yours isn't. 4AM is a better time to arise than 2AM. Therefore, I would want to pay match by match. Bring it on.

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on seeing christies Child post.
I decided to look at the Morecambe set up.
for a fee of £4.49 a month or £37.99 direct debit a year
they offer
Live audio commentary
Works on Mac and PC worldwide
Match and extended highlights
High quality 1.8MB Flash stream
Dan this looks like a very good set up, would this be possible for our site ?

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Out of curiosity Kiwi would you be interested in a non-live recording of the commentary?
As in you good sleep in - get the commentary and then listen to it as it happened?

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Dan - request from me would be that the service didn't use flash - I'd like to be able to access it via mobile.

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I'd prefer that as well for the same reason although it wouldn't be a major problem.

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The majority find the service brilliant, even better when the commentators add a touch of humour which our guys do. The club provide the service FOC to ALL season ticket holders which makes it a brilliant deal. Would recommend it to you guys!

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WTF???!!!--Whats a 'sleep in'??? Haven't done one of those for 30 years.. :(

" NO", I wouldn't listen to a delayed commentary,live yes, delayed no. Straight to the FT result.

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As i'm at many of games H@A, would yeh be able to use fer individual games?:)

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in answer to the question of whether we could have the same player type facility as Morecambe with all the footage etc, I would imagine there's a big no in there somewhere. As the FL own the rights to broadcasts you would need to be tied into some sort of FL deal - and that's what the player is. If you notice all these other club websites are identikit sites with just the content and colouring changed to suit. Stanley have never been interested in that probably because you have to waiver a lot of the advertising revenue from it and have little or no control over its' content beyond news. That was the story in 2006 when we got promoted and I can't see that it would have changed much

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I read with interest but where do you obtain the facts & in formation on the cost & wavering advertising revenue