JustinHorton wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:45 pm
Indeed one perfectly reason response to Agon is that according to them, there's more than half a billion potential viewers which is many many times more than enough to go around, so what have they got to complain about?
If by "perfectly reason" you mean perfectly snide and facetious.
Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:41 pm
Chris Wardle wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:34 pm
Modified question: if you'd been watching the chessbomb coverage exclusively, would you have known that PhosAgro had anything to do with the event?
With co-operation from Agon, why would PhosAgro not have been mentioned? I do know who PhosAgro are, it's because I looked them up when it was first announced that they were one of the match sponsors.
I didn't ask whether you know who they are. Clearly the answer is no, you wouldn't have known they had anything to do with the match. It's not information that any of the unofficial broadcasters would have thought to volunteer. Anyway, PhosAgro don't want to be mentioned. If they thought paying a TV host to say the name of their company would be good for their brand, they'd just pay a TV host to say the name of their company and dispense with all this chess business. It's the eyeball market they're after. They put their logo on the official video feed, Agon gets everyone to watch the official video feed, they pay Agon some money. The only "co-operation" that would show up on PhosAgro's radar is if Agon were proposing to licence out the video feed, but:
Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:41 pm
Chris Wardle wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:34 pm
Agon aren't going to make a video feed available to chess24. We can rule that out.
Why not? There's no disagreement that the video feed is Agon's. It wasn't chess24 who started feuds by trying to assert monopoly rights they only have in their imagination.
...The fact that the video feed is unquestionably Agon's makes them
more likely to just donate it to chess24 for no reason? No, I don't follow. Agon and chess24 are going to be very, very far apart in their valuation of that video feed, given that chess24 ran a successful show with no video feed, whereas Agon would be helping chess24 to undercut them. Let this idea go, it ain't gonna happen!
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