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ABL on Channel 31

Im a journalism student and love this idea, id be more than happy to be apart of it.

Anybody know what is happening with this post and or the channel itself?
Be good to see it up and running for the ABL season next year.

I know a lot more at an NBL level than ABA.

With work and family don't get much of a chance to check out the ABA level.

But if I can help, Great.

I would love to help with this show, in any way possible.
I am currently studying Sport and Recreation (Administration and Management) and so am pretty well equipped in most of the areas. And i would love to be in front of the camera.
Let me know, ta.

OK people,

Now that ABL season is over and some of us possibly have more time, I'd like to propose a meeting to formulate a plan and get things moving with this TV show.

We need to go through some of Liam Flynn's sponsorship ideas, work out what we'll do for the pilot episode and write a quick proposal for BASA to make sure we get the OK from them.

We'll probably need a couple of hours to get all of that sorted out. If you want to help (once again, no experience necessary), have ideas to contribute or just want to tag along to the meeting, EVERYONE is welcome.

We'll need to figure out a time and place, so post your availability below or email me (star0062@flinders.edu.au) with the days and times you're free, plus offer some venue suggestions.

I'm thinking sometime around late August, so a couple of weeks from now.

I'm usually available Monday mornings, Tuesday afternoons, Thursdays, Wednesday nights, some Saturdays and Sunday mornings.

Tick-tock-tick-tock, Guys.

I want to get moving so that we get inertia working FOR us.

Any news?

Whilst DJ's idea has merit, I just dont think the logistics, and added expense of an "on the road show" would help.

Also, I think the pilot will need to be along the format of what the show will be for the "season", to give Ch31 an idea.

I personally think if both show formats can be put together, it might also highlight how dedicated people are to the project to Ch31, therefore giving the project better legs.

As always K, feel free to let me know if you want my help at all.

Hey everyone, Its taken me a while to get online because I have a friend staying from overseas, but I thought Id update you on what happened at the C31 meeting on Monday. They seemed really interested in both ideas for the show, and said we can basically do whatever we want, or even both, as long as we pay for it and the pilot episodes are approved for quality. I didnt find out much that I didnt already know - it was mostly to do with the costs of airing a show. Just to recap: 1 hour show = $400 + GST. 51 minutes of showtime, 5 minutes of our sponsors ads (10x30 seconds at $40 each would give us our $400) and 2 mins of C31 promos. 30 minute show = $200 +GST. 24min30sec of showtime, 2min30sec of sponsors ads and 1 min of C31 promos. The C31 promos sound good. We get to make a 30 second preview for our show and have it shown during similar programs throughout the week to try to get us more viewers, so that should be fun to do. The next step on the agenda is for us to make a pilot episode, which will be previewed by C31 staff before they give us a contract for the show. As most of you probably know, a pilot is generally used as the first episode of a series. We need to have ours completed a week or two before we want our show to start airing (although this sounds to me like a very minimal amount of time), so we have a couple of options: 1) Make our pilot now from finals footage, have it looked at and book ourselves the time we want for next year in advance. This would mean that we couldnt use it next year and would have to make all episodes then. 2) Make a Season Preview show early next year that could then be used as our first episode. What does everyone think? Id like to get started on some things now just so we have the peace of mind that it will actually get done and people will be there to do it. I think we also need to get our pilot in as early as possible so that we get the times we want for the show. It might also be good to make two test shows: one 30 minute talk show and one hour-long edited game with discussion etc, so that we can decide which one we want to pursue. We should also start sourcing sponsors as soon as possible. Liam, I will get back to your email sometime this week. We would love to have your help. K.

Just got on here.

I didn't send off my form because someone else decided to pick up the idea.

And I'm a slack man.

Very, very slack.

So if someone else can put together the show I was going to, where I won't have to do over 50% (more likely 100%) of the work I'm all for it.

If you do need any help, I'll oblige though.

It's the least I can do, when I was going to have to do the whole thing by myself at one point.

Heh, I had my exam for contract law yesterday, Yosemite, but copyright wasn't in it!

At the moment, just remember BASA and the 36ers wont be supporting anythign we do, if attached to this site.

We experienced the same thing when OzHoops first started, and evetually the NBL Head Office realsis what a valuable entity the OH site had become, to the point where even the Media Manager for the NBL posts on a regular basis, and several OH writers now also contribute to Pro Basketball Today.

Hopefully, eventually, the BASA / 36ers admin will realise that this site was borne out of a rather large gap in the web "marketplace", and will work in conjunction with us, instead of against us.

It might not be possible to show games, wouldn't it? Wouldn't BASA claim the rights to all footage, or have something about not displaying it publicly?

I think getting a talk show, with highlights from a game of the week, along with other feature segments is the better way.

Generate some interest, and when thats done, then push for more air time to show some games.

I know a local band that might be interested for the music section of this show. They play at the Wakefield hotel occasionally. More information contact my email.

Regards

Apologies - can't count! (I forgot about South...who can blame me though ;) )

Isaac, thanks for the email. The sub-page is great and I will email you with regards to the other ideas and people who want to help out soon. Any help we can get would be great.

I really like the idea of doing segments of the show fortnightly. We're definitely going to need all the time we can get to edit and put the show together. The other thing we could possibly do is have various parts of the shows shot a few weeks in advance, even before the beginning of the season for team profiles etc.

I'm writing down everyone's ideas and planning as much as I can, but we can't really start to get things organised until we hear back from Channel 31. If everyone can keep putting ideas forward, that will help with the planning, and we can try to arrange a meeting for those who want to help out (and are willing to give up their anonymity!) as soon as I know more.

It all depends on how many games BASA is scheduling next season, I guess - there were many complaints that 18 rounds was too short this year.

DVD set is a good idea!

I guess now we wait to hear back from K before the next course of action?

(PS Isaac - 9 teams now with the merger)

Hey K, you still playing for Norwood?

I don't know that I'm "leading the charge" but I'm happy to talk with you about your ideas while I wait for Channel 31 to get back to me about our proposal. Then we can start organising things seriously and assigning people specific roles.

My email is star0062@flinders.edu.au

See above.

As usual on the ball K!

The proposal is on its way to Channel 31.

I also love the idea of a section on juniors. Maybe for 5 minutes a week we could have a kids' segment including things like age groups, state teams etc, that were mentioned above. Then maybe an ABL player or two with a "How to" section of one basketball skill a week, and possibly even some small basketball-related prizes for kids who tune in and get involved somehow (letters, posting on the forum, competitions perhaps?).

I have the Channel 31 "Producer / Program Provider Form: Register of intent to supply a program to C31 Adelaide" with me. We need the following information before I can send it off:

Title or working title of program (Ideas, anyone?)

Duration of program (I'm suggesting half an hour for the first season, and if we do that well and have enough support, we might be able to change to an hour the next year).

Number of episodes in series (Can someone tell me exactly how many weeks there will be for ABL next year, including finals? Or is this not known yet?)

Description of Concept
Description of main content of program (see previous posts above)

Target audience (who will watch) - "South Australian Basketball Fans"

Suggested timeslot and day (Ideas anyone? I'm suggesting as close to the end of the week as possible, probably a Thursday or Friday, so that we have as much time as possible to put together the previous week's footage. Maybe even a Saturday afternoon before that night's games would be good).

Brief profile of yourself / group.

I'm listing us down as a "community group" (the other option is "organisation")

If anyone has any final ideas and suggestions before I send the form off, let me know. It may take a while for them to get back to me, but once I hear from them I'll let all of you know what's going on.

I think using The Footy Show as a guide would be a good start.

As said before, I'm happy to be involved at any level you want me :).

Thanks to all for your responses so far. It looks like we'll have enough people involved to give this a shot.

Yogee, I don't know that we would be able to do an NBL show, due to it being a national competition with a lot of sponsorship and money behind it. Here in SA we can probably get the support of the clubs behind us, but there may be legal issues involved with filming the NBL, using game footage for our own purposes, etc. Are there any lawyers using the forum that can find out if it's possible for us?

I'd like to start getting some ideas together for the format of the show and the types of segments we'll be doing so that we can contact Channel 31 with a proposal, find out exactly what we need to do with regards to sponsorship and get our planning underway. This is where all of you come in... what do you want to see on your basketball show?

Of course you can count on me to do what I can, and what you want me for.

Oh, the irony (which I'm sure is lost on him anyway) of 648 and 797 telling others to "please keep up". Classic stuff.