Sommet Strikes Back

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bjorn

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#165564 13-Feb-2015 13:53

Seems Sommet Sports is trying to make a come back:

https://attending.io/events/sommet-strikes-back
http://sommetsports.co.nz/help-bring-sommet-sports/

On 12 December we thought the Sommet Sports dream was over. But thanks to the overwhelming support and determination from our viewers, it seems this is not so. We’re getting ready to strike back, better than ever, with our crowd.

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#1237334 13-Feb-2015 14:14

If they want to come back two things they must do

1. Improve the quality of their broadcast, it was terrible.
2. Reduce the intensity of their channel water mark

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#1237359 13-Feb-2015 14:24

I would add, have a streaming option. If they are constrained for bandwidth on freeview that should help quite a bit since most people have way more internet bandwidth than freeview ever could hope to provide to a channel.

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#1237376 13-Feb-2015 14:45

No problem with bandwidth on terrestrial. Fourth mux has room for two HD channels. Problem is the muck they were feeding into encoders. Looked so bad it was the level of a computer with a capture card sending stream via adsl at less than 1 Mbps from another country. I think the Blundeslegia was zoomed from 4:3 to 16:9 and had the graphics shifted, hence the horrendous blurry mess made worse on Sky with reencode to mpeg2.They just had no clue about the fundamentals of TV broadcast and don't deserve to have access to a frequency in my mind.

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#1237378 13-Feb-2015 14:47

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/sommet-sports-comeback-liquidated-tv-channel-confirms-pledgeme-drive-ck-168630

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#1237392 13-Feb-2015 14:53

Online only that's good. I predict D1-CIF resolution.

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#1240061 16-Feb-2015 14:37

I do hope this works, but I'm just not sure how the business model for crowd funding a tv station works.

They could not attract enough paying advertisers last time to pay the bills etc, so how will that situation change with a new round of capital from the public?
They say if they get $500k then they will launch part time on all platforms.

$1.2 million and it will be 24/7 on all platforms, so back to what is was when they accumulated $2.5 million of debt in 17 months.

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#1240070 16-Feb-2015 14:51

JonnyCam: I do hope this works, but I'm just not sure how the business model for crowd funding a tv station works.

They could not attract enough paying advertisers last time to pay the bills etc, so how will that situation change with a new round of capital from the public?
They say if they get $500k then they will launch part time on all platforms.

$1.2 million and it will be 24/7 on all platforms, so back to what is was when they accumulated $2.5 million of debt in 17 months.

I think the major problem they had was they only got something like 1/3 of the funding they were promised by whoever put up the original money. What I want to know then is if they hadn't received the money they were expecting/needed why did they keep spending on content and also launching on satellite

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#1240102 16-Feb-2015 15:19

JarrodM:
why did they keep spending on content and also launching on satellite

To stop all the people bleating on facebook about how they couldn't access it, and it wasn't fair.
(no matter what the sommet fb post was actually about)