Cornell All-Access

[cornelldavy]

If you get 24 mpg, it'll cost you a dollar to drive FOUR MILES. Might as well jog it.

[ugarte]

There have been a lot of stories of siphoning in my neighborhood. Black gold, right on the streets.

[Lauren '06]

Good thing this is the month where I'll drive to NYC and back on consecutive weekends...  ::twitch::

As far as the athletics department goes, I find they are usually very adverse to implementing things that are Not Their Own Idea, regardless of how good/helpful/cost-effective/etc plans from other souces may be in comparison to their own.  It was their idea to outsource to this All-Access thing, therefore it is unquestionably "good."  I understand the entire problem radiates from athletics human resources and their typical ineptitude.

[billhoward]

This is all about yield management, just like at American Airlines or DisneyWorld. Cornell can probably stick me for $100 a year for various Webcast stuff whether a la carte or season ticket and I'd pay. I don't know as I'd tune to more stuff if it was free. I might tune to less if it was $15 a game or pass entirely if it was $250 a year.

By the time I've paid $50 for cable TV and $50 for satellite and $45 for cable modem and $60 for two cellphones and $13 for Sirius and $15 for Rhapsody and $60 for broadand wireless in the laptop each month, what Cornell is sticking me for is rounding error stuff.

'course, it may feel different if you're three years out of school and paying off loans and trying to make a go of it on $38K a year.

[Al DeFlorio]

Here's a data point from our "wealthy" South Hill neighbors:

http://bombers.ithaca.edu/News/football/2005/9/1/Fball%20webcasts.asp?path=football

[Rita]

at least for football. Univ of michigan, norte dame and univ of akron are 3  schools contracting with cstv all access for the audio feed of the sporting events. I was able to follow the mich-nd and akron-purdue games via game tracker this afternoon.

a quick survey indicates that harvard, brown, and princeton are also part of the cstv (st. lawrence and clarkson to not appear to be on the list). I don't know if real audio is doing their college sports pass. the other "pay for audio" service is yahoo (which has the purdue sporting events).

I sent an email today to cstv all access to find out if the monthly fee entitles me to access to *all* events from *all* the schools they contract with or just one school. I'll post the response when I get it.

however, i think in order to have access to an event, there must be a feed provided by the school with the cstv contract. Thus if the school doesn't ordinarily provide a radio broadcast, i don't think cstv will send out a crew to do it. this can probably be tested with men's and women's soccer this fall.

Rita

[Al DeFlorio]

The puff piece for this Saturday's football game with Bucknell says a video webcast will be included in the Cornell All-Access package.

"The game will also be the first contest to be broadcast as part of the Ivy League's new multi-year agreement with SIRIUS Satellite Radio and will be available as part of the "Game of the Week: package. Specifics of the broadcast will be announced later this week. The game will also be available with live streaming video of the contest as part of the Cornell All-Access package that is available through the athletic department's web site, www.CornellBigRed.com. The audio broadcast of the game will be synched in with the video as Barry Leonard provides play-by-play and Buck Briggs serves as color analyst."

[Jerseygirl]

They're called game notes, Al, and they're pretty standard for any athletic communications department to put out for the major sport being played that season. Everything on the Cornell athletics website *should* be a puff piece, as the site exists to promote Cornell athletics.

[DeltaOne81]

So has anyone gotten any response as to just what this All Access stuff will include?

I never did. Perhaps a direct email to someone in athletics is in order.

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]Jerseygirl Wrote:

 They're called game notes, Al, and they're pretty standard for any athletic communications department to put out for the major sport being played that season. Everything on the Cornell athletics website *should* be a puff piece, as the site exists to promote Cornell athletics.[/q]
Which is why I called it a "puff piece."  I don't see the point of your posting.

[Jerseygirl]

Because why not just call them game notes? Do you call a hockey game recap a "puff piece" just because it's written by Cornell Athletics, posted on www.cornellbigred.com and meant to portray the team in the best possible light?

Your phrase seemed snarky, which is why I snarked back. I know this crowd likes to get in as many digs at Cornell Athletics as possible, especially where broadcast access is concerned. But we'll have that discussion later this year, I suppose.

I don't see the point of a lot of things, and yet they exist. Life is so difficult, eh?

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]DeltaOne81 Wrote:

 So has anyone gotten any response as to just what this All Access stuff will include?
[/q]
Buried deep in that same puff piece I cited above is the following statement:  "You can see live streaming video of each of the Big Red's five home [football] games with the purchase of the Cornell All-Access pass through CSTV."

[jtwcornell91]

Has anyone actually tried this?  I was looking for a test clip to see if I could make it work on a non-corporate operating system, but all I could find were "BUY" links, and even trying to get an account made their scripts crash.

[Al DeFlorio]

http://cornellbigred.collegesports.com/genrel/091405aaa.html

[Rita]

OUCH!!!! $39.95 for year-round all access for cornell sports and then another $20 for access to all college football on the cstv network!

I've yet to get a response from cstv as to what exactly the fee entitles one too.  Will there be another fee for access to all the college hockey games? what about squeakball??  This could get quite expensive.


rita