WHY BLOGS MATTER TO THE NHL
Mandatory reading from the SBJ on coverage
If you ever wondered why the NYI Blog Box was created or how Point Blank and other blogs manage to post big Visit numbers and why they matter, check out this state-of-the-sports media address from the Sports Business Journal. It says it all. Puck Daddy continues the conversation and asks readers some key questions.
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8 Responses to WHY BLOGS MATTER TO THE NHL
Mandatory reading from the SBJ on coverage
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kevin fitz says:
I don’t understand why papers just don’t stop with their print editions and go exclusively online. That is the way the world is heading. Papers just need to be ahead of the curve. I am 27 and I have not bought a paper since I got the internet in the 90′s. Why would I? Everything you need is online now. Imagine all the money the papers will save by not having a print edition. In 25 years it will be that way anyways. Might as well start now.
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Gary9-19-22 says:
In the modern age of instant media its each teams own fault if they dont get coverage.
Look at the Isles. Even in the hay day we would need to win a cup to gain space over the Rangers.
Nowadays the Isles embarked in several campaign tyes from IslesTV to right here. This has spurned or spurned from multiple blog sites and on-line radio shows.
Yes I would sponsor the main stream media to report from all my road games as long as they ensure coverage for all home games. Give the same freedom to the reporter that the Isles gave CB. If a team does not then the fans will learn pretty quickly and avoid that reported like the palgue (sp?).
There is so much competition for fan dollars that it is imperative for every team to promote the hell otu themselves however they can.
The Isles have been thinking out of the box for a while. If they used that same spirit the day Wang came on we would already be an elite team and possibly have a cup under our belts.
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art says:
Good thread CB! We have all witnessed the decline in nyc print media coverage of the Isles. It began before the recession and was an early casuality of the general decline of newspaper coverage of sports. The three major papers in NYC regularly cover ther NYR even whe they are out of town sometimes using stringers and rarely the wire services. The NJD get less coverage and the NYI don’t even get regular home game coverage. It’s of course related to our small market image and economics- although how much gas$s or LIRR fare are we talking about? Bloggers and their fans have become a huge resouce beyond what the papers ever provided even in Cananda the bloggers share the spotlight with the top Toronto and Montreal papers with THN being published with too much Lag time. Yea TSN serves a big roll but they wll never replace the likes of Islanderspoint blank. CB if they give you a seat in the Barn’s pressbox -great, but don’t ever give up the great job you are doing even while on “vacation”!
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Priest says:
I agree that the team could likely afford to put the writers on the charters with the team. I’d be surprised if it resulted in any problems with ethics or biases.
However, since that isn’t likely to happen, why couldn’t the newspaper find someone in the city they are visiting (not a writer for the other team; maybe someone who covers an out-of-season sport or minor league guy or something), give him some notes and credentials and have him write an article? It wouldn’t be as good as a beat writer travelling with the team, but it would be better than an AP article.
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mht says:
On a similar note there is an article in today’s New York Times sports page how ESPN will shortly introduce ESPN NEW YORK to this market. They are successfully running ESPN CHICAGO [Take a sneak preview by googling espn chicago] In a super competitive sports media playing field,this too will impact newspapers.
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What CB does is invaluable and without question the wave of the future. Even the big NYC papers don’t send their Rangers writers to every game. To Philly, Boston, D.C., maybe Florida, sure, they still do, but times being what they are you can expect AP to be used more and more blog sites like this to pop up going forward.
What CB does is unique in scope. I think the vast majority of NHL fans would kill for a site like this, which is basically an extension of actually being there night in and night out.
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D-man says:
kevin fitz: i don’t think it’s as easy as that. there’s a shift happening but it takes time. they have to figure out the pay/money dynamic. if you just dramatically stop printing you prob will lose a chunk of people. plus can papers even survive online. pay for newsday.com? how is advertising going to work? remember most of the news you read online is from real journalists getting paid from newspapers. that stuff is regurgitated into blogs for free. that will have to change. without the papers and if online fails to make enough money there’s no original source news for all the onliners to take from.
Its kinda weird, the teams complain about no coverage when they could afford to subsidize the travel costs of the journalists. I guess that probably crosses an ethical line though.