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Is it me, or has anyone else noticed the lack of new or original programming on the SEC Network in the last 4 months or so? Every time I turn it on , it is showing a 30 minute program from as far back as two weeks ago with all the usual bobblehead so called commentators telling us how great their former teams were in the 80s and 90s. But NOW it RUNS ALL DAY up until the Alabama show (Finebaum) come on . Has ESPN slashed the budget that much?
 
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76volman said:
Is it me, or has anyone else noticed the lack of new or original programming on the SEC Network in the last 4 months or so? Every time I turn it on , it is showing a 30 minute program from as far back as two weeks ago with all the usual bobblehead so called commentators telling us how great their former teams were in the 80s and 90s. But NOW it RUNS ALL DAY up until the Alabama show (Finebaum) come on . Has ESPN slashed the budget that much?
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They're $aving their cash for SEC Football Season to begin.

Nothing worth watching happens til then anyway.

C'mon, man.
 
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My son and were talking about this the other day. The SEC network had a great opportunity this weekend to show some highly ranked high school teams from the south. Most of these were already being produced for local tv. They could have picked these up and had some good programming. Most of these games had several highly ranked players that SEC fans would have loved to watch.
 
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SEC network, ESPN +, ESPN, ABC, Hulu...all.owned by Disney which is taking a financial beating of late for.many various reasons.

They are cutting budgets and content across the board. I fear our college football experience is going to suffer. I almost wish the House of Mouse would do like a College Game Day Ticket in the fall...pay a base price for subscription, then a price per game to choose the games you want to see.
 
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volroadwarrior said:
I had rather see old replays instead of the boring talk shows. That includes that boring Finebaum.
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I agree can't go five mins without saying something about Bama or Sabin.Talkin with the same old call in Bama fans. Paw should just put a trunk on his nose and a big crimson A on that bald head. Of course he already has the ears for it.
 
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How many years of SEC games are lying in the vault that haven’t seen the light of day? The same games are rerun over and over again. There are a number of Tennessee games I’d like to see again, like 2001 Alabama, 1999 Norte Dame, 2004 Georgia, etc.
 
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Seems like AL vs GA; AL vs LSU; AL vs TA&M reruns on all the time. No considerations of other teams. You might get to see the TN vs Gators game that was on starting at 3 am last week though.
 
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I remember how thrilled I was when they announced there was going be an SEC network. I don't know what I was expecting, but I guess I imagined it would be much more impressive than it turned out to be. Don't watch it much at all.
 
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76volman said:
Is it me, or has anyone else noticed the lack of new or original programming on the SEC Network in the last 4 months or so? Every time I turn it on , it is showing a 30 minute program from as far back as two weeks ago with all the usual bobblehead so called commentators telling us how great their former teams were in the 80s and 90s. But NOW it RUNS ALL DAY up until the Alabama show (Finebaum) come on . Has ESPN slashed the budget that much?
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It's been that way since the start in 2014. They replay the 30 minute SEC Now over and over instead of showing classic games.
 
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robcovol said:
How many years of SEC games are lying in the vault that haven’t seen the light of day? The same games are rerun over and over again. There are a number of Tennessee games I’d like to see again, like 2001 Alabama, 1999 Norte Dame, 2004 Georgia, etc.
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The SEC sold the pre-2005 archives to XOS Sports in the late-2000s, who digitized them and put all the games online for a fee, XOS lost the rights to sell them on the internet, but they still maintain the archive. ESPN licensed a couple dozen pre-2005 games when they launched SEC Network. ESPN owns all of the SEC archives, including CBS games, from 2014-present.
 
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I was having this same conversation the other day. I remember when the SEC network would do a 30 minute to an hour preview of each SEC team leading up to the season. It was great. They would have a lot of behind the scenes, practice, film, historical information, and Opinions about the upcoming season. That was a long time ago though.
 
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I cannot believe what the Finebaum show has evolved into. And Finebaum himself can't hide his boredom. It is a repeat everyday using these same tired old men who like to get on the airways with their drivel. And the network and Finebaum allow it. I guess original programming is just too expensive to produce so in the alternative they go with what is readily available and that product is just unacceptable to anyone with half a brain. I predict that Finebaum show is on it's last legs. I know I have watched my last commercial on that show!
 
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ru4real-really? said:
I cannot believe what the Finebaum show has evolved into. And Finebaum himself can't hide his boredom. It is a repeat everyday using these same tired old men who like to get on the airways with their drivel. And the network and Finebaum allow it. I guess original programming is just too expensive to produce so in the alternative they go with what is readily available and that product is just unacceptable to anyone with half a brain. I predict that Finebaum show is on it's last legs. I know I have watched my last commercial on that show!
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I know I haven't watched any Paw Finebaum Show for many years now. I can't understand how the ratings for his show would be good enough to keep it on air for 4 hours a day for this long. Has there ever been one person to watch 4 hrs of this boring "sport" talk & TV commercial show?
 
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They only produce about 3 shows and acquire/license the rest. They provide coverage on live sports. Not sure what you want out of the station 😂
 
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Don’t worry. Whenever Texas is officially a member they will demand a full 8 hour program every day.
 
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HarderKnox59 said:
I agree can't go five mins without saying something about Bama or Sabin.Talkin with the same old call in Bama fans. Paw should just put a trunk on his nose and a big crimson A on that bald head. Of course he already has the ears for it.
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Oh but on those Mondays after a Bama loss, there isn’t a sweeter home for Schadenfreude on the planet 😂😂😂
Last year I pretty much learned that the Bama fans were convinced that Pete Golding had to be the love child of Adolf Hitler and Sadaam Hussein.
 
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All ESPN wanted was for the SEC to sign on the dotted line. The "SEC Network" was just another negotiation chip in the pile. I imagine it was one of those "sounds good on paper, work out the details later" things - and by work out the details, I mean put in the minimum amount of effort and expense required to keep the SEC schools from making noise. That means spending money to generate what content you do make during sports seasons, and then going to ground during the offseason. No reason to have Marty and McGhee doing shows in July; no one's watching anyway. Just run Paul Finebaum out there every day, do reruns of everything else, and ride out the sports winter.

And really, from a financial perspective, once they got the schools to sign, what's the motivation to spend money on the SEC Network that they don't have to spend? ESPN owns the SEC. Where else can SEC fans go? Nowhere. So why bother? So it makes sense for ESPN. And even in a world where one might think "they could do more content," the question is - to what end? What amibition can there be to "grow" the SEC Network into something bigger or more robust; what would be the vision for that? Where else can they go to unearth SEC fans they haven't already gotten? And if they try to grow casual SEC viewership, then they're competing with College Gameday, which already pivoted to chasing casual fans decades ago - much to its detriment. So ... wash, rinse, repeat.

This is all, of course, entirely my subjective opinion, but I just feel like the SEC Network is what it is and I don't think we'll see much change.
 
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Like the way the Big 10 network does the replays in 60 minutes.That way you do not have to sit through all of those stupid commercials that you have to endure during the regular broadcast.
 
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