Espn Why No Dedicated Fishing Channel?

[basscatcher8]

Best outdoor channel that everybody with a web connection gets is Youtube. You can catch The Next Bite, Lindners, not to mention several smaller groups that honestly have more information. And they even tell you were there fishing and how they are fishing. The Lindners even starting putting their full episodes up on their website to watch. Forget fishing shows on tv. I hook my PC up to my tv and watch fishing shows any time i want to. Dont forget bassmasters.com has every single bass master classic from the beginning to last years up on their website as well. There is a ton out there guys you just gotta look for it instead of wait for it on tv.

[Raul]

My man, you got Internet don´t ya ? well, it ain´t exactly understandable  cuz it´s in Japanese,but somebody said : "one picture is worth 1000 words " here you go: www.apstv.net, enjoy !

[Grizzn N Bassin]

I watch poker and love it...  and its not like espn doesnt show fishing they do  alot times in the am on espn 2..

 

if you want to watch previous bass master classics or elite series they have all of them online at your disposal.... which i fiind much more stastisfying.. Dont get me wrong if dish gives me  free trials wfn or others ill check it out.  all of those shows are filled with commericals , them talking about products , or  how much they enjoy fishing with each other... i find my self muting the television and watching what there using, the conditions etc... 

 Also youtube is you best freind you will find some much more useful fishing information on there then watching tv..

[Marty]

 

All television programming is driven by viewer demographics.  If there was sufficient demand for fishing programming, you'd have more of it on television.  It's hard to find sponsorship for programs with poor ratings.

 

Bingo! I could almost guarantee that ESPN would show fishing 24/7 if it drew more viewers than SportsCenter, various games and other shows.

 

As to Saturday mornings, the same question was being asked when I started fishing 40+ years ago. Obviously, there are enough watching at that time to make it worth their while and clearly it wouldn't pay to show the programs at better viewing times.

 

We just have to accept the reality that fishing isn't much of a spectator sport.

[Scott F]

The way programming works these days is that some one who produces a fishing show has to buy a time slot from a network. He then has to find enough sponsors to foot the bill. There has to be enough money to pay for the air time, production costs and some income for the the owner of the show. The networks have no risk at all. If the show has a bad time slot, it's because the shows owner would not (or could not)  pay for a better time slot.  

[Darren.]

I just want somebody to take Charlie Moore off of the NBC Sports Network.

 

I mean, COME ON MAN! They left him but took away so many fishing shows that were 100x better than watching Charlie catch a few bass, smoke stogies and eat at expensive dives.

 

Rant over. As y'all were.

[Hyrule Bass]

I second that. Dish has a variety of outdoor channels. Especially WFN.

but it totally lacks in other channels, for that reason i would not recommend it to anyone. i can live without WFN, because i get better all around programming on Directv...

[BassinLou]

but it totally lacks in other channels, for that reason i would not recommend it to anyone. i can live without WFN, because i get better all around programming on Directv...

 

It suits me just fine as Direct TV, suits you. That's the beauty of options.

[PotomacBassin]

Stay on topic.  Everyone's egos are a little sensitive on here. 

 

Sorry no dedicated ESPN channels.  If you have DVR, just try to set automatic recordings for all the fishing shows which are on sproradically during the week. 

[Hyrule Bass]

It suits me just fine as Direct TV, suits you. That's the beauty of options.

 

to each their own, i can respect that...

[Grizzn N Bassin]

i still have bunny ears on top of my televison.. 

[J Francho]

i still have bunny ears on top of my televison.. 

 

LOL, me too.

[Bassfink86]

dedicated?

I have 3 channels that show hunting and fishing 24 hours a day, one of them is fishing only.  Talk to your cable provider.

same thing here, love the world fishing network

[Marty]

 

I just want somebody to take Charlie Moore off of the NBC Sports Network.

 

I've seen a lot of complaints about Charlie over the years, and I'm not crazy about him myself, but he's the EverReady battery, keeps on tickin', for whatever reason.

[bigbill]

We just have the basic cable channels. I think we have a total of four Epsn channels. I do have Bill Dance, Hank Parker, Rowland Martin and Jimmy Houston when I catch them on.

Charlie Moore the Irish fisherman who tries to be like my godfather? He's ok but I would like to fish from shore against him it could be fun.

[crazy cranker]

ESPN owned B.A.S.S. from 2001 until 2010.  I don't remember them broadcasting many, if any, events during that time period.  Now that they don't have a vested interest in the sport chances are slim to none that they will broadcast any competitive bass fishing events.

[.ghoti.]

If I had to guess, I would say ESPN still has a bad case of indigestion over their involvement in BASS. They bought into that expecting BASS to be the next NASCAR. Didn't happen then, won't happen now, nor will it in the future. Fishing, as much as we all love it, is simply not a spectator sport, and will never be able to support network programming costs.

 

Look at some of the comments just in this thread, and then search for similar threads.

What gets "beeched" about?

 

too many commercials,   well who do think pays for this stuff?

all "he" does is promote his sponsors lures;   DUH?

"he" only fishes private ponds and that's not fair,     here's some tissue, go wipe your kitty

I don't like "him", "he's" a jerk. so what, "he" has a show and you don't (see previous suggestion)

 

I think I will stop right there. This could go on for quite a while if I let it.

 

Be happy we get as much as we do get from time to time.

 

BTW, I get WFN and have no complaints, just some shows I will no longer watch.

[tomustang]

What it comes down to is fishing as a sport is more enjoyable to "do" than to watch, whereas all the other broadcasted sports are for people to watch instead of "doing''.

[.ghoti.]

What it comes down to is fishing as a sport is more enjoyable to "do" than to watch, whereas all the other broadcasted sports are for people to watch instead of "doing''.

Exactly right!