[BC] NFL pleading poverty

[Mike McCarthy]

Mario,

Why can't you correctly understand this?  The NFL doesn't get the local 
game day coordination for free..anymore.  They PAY the local coordinator 
for each game they work.  I am a GDC and I have been paid for every game 
I've worked the past 3 years, including playoff and away games.

Please get your facts straight.

MM

At 05:57 PM 5/22/2005 -0600, you wrote:

>I can't say yes or no about my doing frequency coordination for the NFL; 
>it's sort of impractical because I live far from an NFL team. I have heard 
>of individuals who were paid by NFL, until SBE squeezed them out. The 
>point, however, is moot because the NFL would never pay me for something 
>they get for free.
>
>It's really a matter of principle. As professionals, we should stand up 
>for each other when it comes to appropriate compensation. If your boss 
>called me up and said, "Ron Castro is making too much money. I'd like to 
>fire him and hire you," my reply (as a professional) should and would be: 
>"I'm sure that Ron is worth far more than you what you pay him. You should 
>be lucky you have him"
>
>SBE claims that, although NFL values what SBE does for it, it can't afford 
>to pay them appropriately. If I were SBE, I would say, "Sorry, but we are 
>professionals, and we don't give away our services."
>
>By the way, the NFL-network TV deal for the years 1998 to 2005 was $17.6 
>billion (L.A. Times), that's about $2.5 billion a year. And SBE president 
>Ray Benedict says they don't have any money for frequency coordination.
>
>My beef with the NFL is they have the nerve to ask SBE to subsidize their 
>multi-billion dollar empire. My beef with SBE is that they believe that 
>"NFL is poor" and that engineers should volunteer their professional services.
>
>Mario
>
>
>
>At 11:02 PM 5/21/2005, you wrote:
>>Message: 5
>>Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 10:36:49 -0700
>>From: "Ron Castro" <ronc at sonic.net>
>>Subject: Re: [BC] GDC's
>>To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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>>How is this any different than when the SBE did frequency coordination for
>>individual "for-profit" radio and TV stations?  And what's your beef with
>>the NFL?  It seems you have a real hot-button about that.  Is it because
>>you're trying to sell those same services to the NFL?
>>
>>Ron Castro
>>Chief Technical Officer
>>Results Radio, LLC
>
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>
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