I think you might find you will have major difficulty trying to sell a format that is not played by any team, let alone the pros.
New Pro League
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If you present this to major sponsors and if there interested there going to look into this for viability and when they they do there going to look at NPPL, NXL and im sorry to say that they are gona say "hey, why are we we going with this guy when we have two established leagues already running. also they are already in talks with potential tv coverage"
I wish you luck but i feel your just to far behind the others to make an impact. plus if this takes off and you start approaching teams to play your format your gona be a threat to the nppl and nxl and there gona react aggressively to you as any buisiness would.
Neil
Oh, I'll act agressive too.
You know I just thought of something today. Right now, NPPL and NXL are fine for T.V.. Paintballs will watch it no matter what. It's paintball on T.V.. But as paintball becomes the powerhouse it's becoming, and T.V. gets very common, there gonna stop watching it just because it's paintball. There gonna wanna watch it because it's actually entertaining. And I like the NPPL and NXL, but I just don't think their formats are fit for spectators. I play paintball, but I still barely can understand what's going on in NXL games on T.V.. There's no focal point, and no way to know who's doing what, or why. I see what they're trying to do when they use on field cams like they did in the NXL Championships on ESPN2. They're trying to make you feel like you're in the game. But their trying something that can't be done. To enjoy a sport, you don't have to feel like your playing. When you watch basketball on T.V., it looks like a kinda relaxed, slow pace game. On the court, it's a whole different world. But you HAVE to play to know that. I don't see the point to trying to make you feel like your in that paintball game. That's does really have to do with anything, but o well.........
Thanks for wishing me luck though.
AIM is free. But they could make hundreds of millions, to billions of dollars if they charged for use......I never understood why they didn't. That's REALLY strange.
Anyway........If you mean why would the network pay to air it........Because it will make money.
I kinda had a feeling that if you stuck a few million in each of their faces, and promised to get coverage like NFL, they might give some thought. Or.........We could train new pros.
You're missing the point. Maybe they it will make money.Originally posted by TmBwm740
AIM is free. But they could make hundreds of millions, to billions of dollars if they charged for use......I never understood why they didn't. That's REALLY strange.
But wouldn't they make more money if they jsut didn't pay you anything and broadcast their own format? It's not like you've got the ONLY format that could be broadcast.
And that's why NPPL and NXL are more attractive - it doesn't matter if their formats are any good or not, they have the MARKET - recognized teams, etc. If they need to, they can change the format, and they'll still have the value of the teams (and players), which you won't have, no matter how good your format is.
TV networks don't buy formats. Formats are easy. They buy access to a market. Creating the market is the hard part.
I've talked to several TV networks. Not one of them has ever asked about the format. They want to know how many people play paintball, how old they are, how much money thier families make, how often they play, how much money the industry pulls in every year, what kind of other coverage the sport gets, how many more people played last year than the year before, etc.
You misunderstand me. I don't mean getting the pros to play, if you had the money they will come. But you won't get any money because nobody plays this game of yours. Why would anyone want to invest in something that does not exist yet? You will find that major corporations are VERY conservative.
The networks do not pay to air little known programmes at all, why should they.Originally posted by TmBwm740
AIM is free. But they could make hundreds of millions, to billions of dollars if they charged for use......I never understood why they didn't. That's REALLY strange.
Every morning the tv sports directors have a pile of so called sports proggammes land on their desk so they are not short of stuff to air.
You said they should use it because it will make money, How!
If you get real lucky you may get them to produce and film it free - but I doubt it.
But good luck.
Russ
Trust me...........I know about all that. I'm doing research on all that for a presenation. You've talked to several networks?
But paintball is just too explosive to not want to get a piece of. The way I see it, there's just a VERY thin wall that's keeping paintball from the public eye. I think I have the brick to break it. That sounded corny I know.