whats up with bass saturday????????????/

[tracy]

is everybody as disappointed with bass saturday as i am?

got up at 6am turned on the tv and hunting was on.
set the vcr came back home after fishing the fishing show on it was bass tech.

would have been very mad if i wasted my morning trying to watch some good fishing shows and got stuck watching soccer or that other garbage that was on like charlie moore but didn't even see him on that tape.

we need to stand together and everybody email espn and tell them our thoughts.

wait all week to watch your favorite pros. or to see something educational.

instead we have a laughing, loudmouth idiot & soccer

[R19]

Yes I am very dissapointed with there programming...WHY ?

Walt Disney owns ESPN. ESPN owns BASS and they move them from Alabama to where else but the shadows of Disney Land headquaters (Kissimie FL I think) so why would a company own a national fishing trail and a national TV programming station and not give there trail much coverage. I guess they can make more money from scoccer and tennis (thats what been on the last two sat mornings)If I owned a business and had my own TV broadcasting station I would have more coverage of what I owned but Disney/ESPN probbaly make more money from other sporting programs so my guess is it would be about $$$$$


R19

[Danny]

Maybe we should all consider BASS Sunday.

Fox sports will be showing the second portion of the FLW from KY Lake today.

At least I'll get to see that.

Danny

[Jose]

ESPN proved to me that their programers really don't understand bass fisherman when they cancelled "Schooled By Denny Brauer" and renewed "Beat Charlie Moore". Charlie Moore is even more insulting to an angler than "Bass Tech" . I was at a Bassmaster Universtity class this recently when Denny was asked about this his show being cancelled. Being extremely diplomatic, Denny's responce was that he recieved a call one day from ESPN and they told him his show wasn't going to be renewed. The crowd of three-hundred or so loudly booed ESPN's decision. This is a group with a lot of disposable income to spend on fishing. I HOPE ESPN'S ADERTISERS ARE PAYING ATTNETION. I'm starting to find my fishing shows on other cable networks.

I do a lot of saltwater fishing as well. ESPN is startng to screw up Saltwater Sunday with less good fishing and more of the "Offshore Adventures" of a rich dude and his crew of chefs and free divers. I want to see more fishing and much less of his bride Malissa.

[mikedaleo]

The fact that BASS saturday was ever on A saturday proves that they don't understand bass fishermen and really don't care. If I didn't have Tivo I would never see it.

Danny, do you know what channel Fox sports is on direct TV?

[Danny]

Sorry Mike, I have DishNetwork.

Works great because if I miss FLW, it is on several other mkt. sports channels all day it seems.

Danny

[darealbigcatman]

>is everybody as disappointed with bass
>saturday as i am?
>
>got up at 6am turned on
>the tv and hunting was
>on.
>set the vcr came back home
>after fishing the fishing show
>on it was bass tech.
>
>
>would have been very mad if
>i wasted my morning trying
>to watch some good fishing
>shows and got stuck watching
>soccer or that other garbage
>that was on like charlie
>moore but didn't even see
>him on that tape.
>
>we need to stand together and
>everybody email espn and tell
>them our thoughts.
>
>wait all week to watch your
>favorite pros. or to see
>something educational.
>
>instead we have a laughing, loudmouth
>idiot & soccer

Well I guess I'm not the only one that wasted time taping that junk.Why don't they show Jimmy Houston,Bill Dance,Hank Parker and "In-Fisherman"?Now ,that would be a couple of hours of sheer excitement!I do have one other subject I'd like to bring up,I really admire Tim Farmer on KET but if he shoots one more gar in the a#$% I'm going to lose it!I wish they would add a co-host and that person could handle the fishing segments.

[know1]

I'll agree that the bass fishing shows on ESPN are of very low quality - although bass fishing shows don't generally interest me that much anyway.

But you have to be kidding if you're whining about those taped shows not being played in favor of Wimbledon and the World Cup. Those are the premier events in those respective sports and since they happen in Europe they are on early in the morning over here. It would be ridiculous to keep those off the air in favor of those other produced, generic fishing shows.

[Dave Stewart]

Hmmm...hard to believe anyone that would be posting on an internet fishing site would rather watch a fishing show on tv rather than soccer or tennis isn't it?

[know1]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jul-03-06 AT 11:54AM (EST)[/font][p]Why? Just because they post here means that is their number one priority? Fishing is my favorite pasttime too, but I do have other interests. I like fishing better than soccer or tennis, but I can recognize that the particular soccer and tennis events that are currently going on are much bigger than ESPN's canned, generic fishing shows and wrap-ups already-old tournament news.

Now if the BassMaster classic was going on and ESPN decided to show a taped MLS game from a week ago, or an instructional video on how to hit a forehand, then I would be arguing that the fishing should be on.

[Viking]

Only you, Fishergurl.

[mikedaleo]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jul-03-06 AT 01:03PM (EST)[/font][p]Like I said in another post, saturday morning is the single worst time to market to fishermen, since most of them are on the water, especially tournament fishermen. That being said, there are enough ESPN's out there that tennis or World Cup Soccer could be on any one of them. The ratings, especially for world cup soccer in the US are pathetic, wimbeldon a little bit better. Whatever, ESPN can do what they want when they want.

What bugs me is OLN. There are things on OLN that have nothing to do with the outdoors. When you purchase a cable or satellite package and pick the outdoor channels for outdoor programming, it is a big disappointment when it is not available.

Heck, take a poll on here to see how many people who are fishermen are actually remotely interested in soccer or tennis, I'd be suprised if it was very high at all.