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[NLLStormCA]

I want to see both the semi final games on NBC...I think it would be a good way 2 put the game out there even more b4 the big Championship game...what are your thoughts, do you think it would be a good idea to show one or both??

[oslax19]

are they showing a semi-final game? i thought they were just showing the championship game. maybe im just out of the loop

[judge death]

NBC is only showing THE CHAMPIONS CUP game as that and the ALL STAR GAME was all the NLL could afford to show since they had to buy the air time from NBC. and try to recoup there money by selling the comercial time.

[NLLStormCA]

but the thing was it was an idea that NBC came up with....showing the 2 semi final games...but Jennings didnt want to put them on...which I dont understand...when NBC comes to them and says they want to show the games, I think the NLL should have jumped and said yea, but O well....next year should be sweet, cuz I read they might show a game every week, which would be soo awesome...

[RockStar]

For what I hear, this league runs on a shoe-string budget.

I'm sure they'd have loved to get the semi-finals on TV, but maybe they just didn't have a spare ~$10,000,000* kicking around, knew they couldn't sell commercials for an extra 4 hours of lacrosse, and knew they couldn't afford their own commercials to promote it.

(BTW - did anyone who's not a hardcore NLL fan even know that the All Star game was going to be televised? I didn't hear about it anywhere except NLL.com and the Wingszone message board. They got a lousy time slot, didn't promote it, and got crappy ratings.....surprise!)

*I have no idea what 4 hours of TV time actually costs, but a 30 second commercial spot during the superbowl was a couple million. 4 hours on national network cannot be cheap!

[roycegracie47]

That's the trouble with NLL not being a household name like the NFL or NBA where networks bid for the right to air their championships and the companies who want commercials do the same for max exposure.

[stegmakk]

Give it time...baby steps...no one outside of our community really knows what lax is...it isn't like arena football where people already know what football is...it is brand new...so companies deal with lax like dealing with an ice cold pool...stick one toe in and see how it goes, and then stick a leg in and see how it goes etc...

[roycegracie47]

Give it time...baby steps...no one outside of our community really knows what lax is...it isn't like arena football where people already know what football is...it is brand new...so companies deal with lax like dealing with an ice cold pool...stick one toe in and see how it goes, and then stick a leg in and see how it goes etc...

it's getting to the groin area that takes time.....

I agree though, we can't expect too much at once (although some playoff games would help paint a picture for the uninitiated).

[ragnut]

Here's info on the NLL championship game on NBC:
http://www.nll.com/article_1608.shtml

[KoachKream]

For what I hear, this league runs on a shoe-string budget.

I'm sure they'd have loved to get the semi-finals on TV, but maybe they just didn't have a spare ~$10,000,000* kicking around, knew they couldn't sell commercials for an extra 4 hours of lacrosse, and knew they couldn't afford their own commercials to promote it.

(BTW - did anyone who's not a hardcore NLL fan even know that the All Star game was going to be televised? I didn't hear about it anywhere except NLL.com and the Wingszone message board. They got a lousy time slot, didn't promote it, and got crappy ratings.....surprise!)

*I have no idea what 4 hours of TV time actually costs, but a 30 second commercial spot during the superbowl was a couple million. 4 hours on national network cannot be cheap!

actually in an article in inside lacrosse, NBC and the NLL were really plaesed with the ratings.

[RockStar]

^^"Good Ratings" can be a relative term.

Few people saw the all star game. However, the numbers that did tune in may have been better than what was expected.

I expect a similar performance for the championship game.

[swordsman]

:love: Give it time...baby steps...no one outside of our community really knows what lax is...it isn't like arena football where people already know what football is...it is brand new...so companies deal with lax like dealing with an ice cold pool...stick one toe in and see how it goes, and then stick a leg in and see how it goes etc...
I agree. This is the Renaisance of Lacrosse, though it 's just begining. What's happening is the generation (50-80)that's CEOs never heard of Lacrosse. Once are generation(s)take charge... WATCH OUT BASEBALL THE REAL AMERICAN PASSTIME'S HERE! :love: