How do you feel about March Madness Basketball pre-empting your favorite shows every night for hours.
Do you think that such events should be shown on local tv stations or relegated to a sports station like ESPN and why ?
2007-03-23 17:05:55 · 4 answers · asked by That_ blue_ eyed_ Irish_ lass 6 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
I believe in "free enterprise", and apparently so do the many colleges and universities playing in the March Madness basketball games. There is a committee running this "Madness", and if that committee can get the "best deal" from CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, or whatever station they approach, they will take the most profitable.
The University of Tennessee and Stanford University's football and basketball programs make enough profit each year to pay for ALL their other athletic programs, and still have money left. Academic programs do not support colleges and universities. A recognized sports program can.
As a professional academic teacher, I believe every student's academic achievement is more important than their ability to "slam dunk" a basketball, "kick" a field goal, "spike" a volley ball, or have the "fastest" slow pitch in softball. Unfortunately, I, and other academic teachers, do not control the "purse strings".
March Madness, the NIT tournaments, and other sporting events whose participants are college students, "use" the talents of those students (unpaid, by the way) to enhance the image of particular colleges and universities. Colleges and universities employ Marketing Managers, and have extensive Marketing Departments, just like IBM, Apple, Ford Motor Company, Chrysler, Microsoft, Nestle: Any corporation you can identify.
Delegating any sports event to one station only would be an effort to thwart free enterprise; and, the colleges and universities who teach their student's the importance of that, are not going to be the ones to stop.
2007-03-23 17:45:28 · answer #1 · answered by Baby Poots 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NCAA BB is actually live TV. Get a life, would you? I'm so sorry you can't veg out in front of the boob tube.
2007-03-23 17:13:57 · answer #2 · answered by Lone Papa 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I got no problem with that..I rather they do.
2007-03-23 17:18:02 · answer #3 · answered by Thomas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
basktball is better than those shows.
2007-03-24 05:53:18 · answer #4 · answered by kfkjfd 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋