New Ivy League Digital Streaming Service

It looks like the end of Redcast!

scoop85
It looks like the end of Redcast!

No, sounds like "Son of Redcast." According to the article the programming will come from each University's existing production teams.

price will be interesting to see.. the ACC does much of its stuff for free, the ivy has huge numbers of kids going to school for free the going rate is about $10 for schools doing it on their own. with the league all in it together does the price become lower?

upprdeck
price will be interesting to see.. the ACC does much of its stuff for free, the ivy has huge numbers of kids going to school for free the going rate is about $10 for schools doing it on their own. with the league all in it together does the price become lower?

Lower prices? You jest. The Ivy League sees more value since you now can follow your team on the road for no additonal charge, plus see today's exciting Dartmouth-Brown game for who doesn't finish last in Ivy lax. Which means they'll charge more, not less, for the annual package. I bet they're thinking about how $99 and $149 would play. It would be nice if they had a student discount, like half off. My guess is they'd start at ~$100 a year.

Be nice if the consortium imposed minimum quality standards on underperforming schools.

billhoward
Be nice if the consortium imposed minimum quality standards on underperforming schools video production teams.

FYP.

This got past me on first read. Calling it the Ivy League Digital Network seems excessively verbose. There is no Ivy League analog network. They probably realized the eIvy Network with the circled-e would sound too 1990s.

Also waiting to see if some revenue-enhancement twit succeeded in making this self-renewing with the option to follow a rabbit-hole menu tree online to opt out.

billhoward
This got past me on first read. Calling it the Ivy League Digital Network seems excessively verbose. There is no Ivy League analog network. They probably realized the eIvy Network with the circled-e would sound too 1990s.

Also waiting to see if some revenue-enhancement twit succeeded in making this self-renewing with the option to follow a rabbit-hole menu tree online to opt out.

If you called it the "Ivy League Network" the first thing that would come to mind would be a TV network, IMO.

Josh '99

billhoward
This got past me on first read. Calling it the Ivy League Digital Network seems excessively verbose. There is no Ivy League analog network. They probably realized the eIvy Network with the circled-e would sound too 1990s.

Also waiting to see if some revenue-enhancement twit succeeded in making this self-renewing with the option to follow a rabbit-hole menu tree online to opt out.

If you called it the "Ivy League Network" the first thing that would come to mind would be a TV network, IMO.

Josh, that's my point, too, from a different angle. Some day if not today, no difference, between video over the Internet and TV. In the meantime, it's all digital anyway. You'd be laughed out of the office if your secretary (what's that?) came up, interrupted your meeting, and said, "It's Mr. Jensen. He's calling long distance from Los Angeles." Up until about years ago, Motor Trend ended stories with italic lines, "Click here to go the Ford world wide web site," as if their users could not figure how to get there othewise (this was the follow-on to the reader response card in a magazine, where you circled numbers linked to advertisers, mailed it back, and 4 to 8 weeks later, literature arrived). Putting a circled-e in front of a word is sounding archaic now. I may be more older and therefore extra cautious not to use references that date me. I no longer say, "How about that Wham! concert."

Josh '99

billhoward
This got past me on first read. Calling it the Ivy League Digital Network seems excessively verbose. There is no Ivy League analog network. They probably realized the eIvy Network with the circled-e would sound too 1990s.

Also waiting to see if some revenue-enhancement twit succeeded in making this self-renewing with the option to follow a rabbit-hole menu tree online to opt out.

If you called it the "Ivy League Network" the first thing that would come to mind would be a TV network, IMO.

It sounds more like a golf tournament for human resources managers of Wall Street investment banks.

"Ivy Network" is also the name of the ad consortium representing Cornell Alumni Magazine, the other Ivies, and a couple other high end college mags that combined put circ over 1 million which is the point where ad buyers take notice. So this is the Ivy Sports Network unless somehow the Ivies sold the rights to a third party and didn't put a limit on length of use.