The perfect fumble
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We'll not be as big as AFTV either cos we simply don't have the fanbase. That's one thing I've noticed. Whether we like to admit or not, Liverpool and United are well out in front, Arsenal just in behind and Chelsea catching up. We're miles off.
It was very noticeable that BMRTV YouTube videos had far fewer hits than the other big six fan channels and it had nothing to do with the quality of the output, I say that not because it's you but because it's true. I'm a bit of a fan channel nut for my sins and dip in to watch them quite a bit, the big ones are as you say Arsenal Fan TV, FullTimeDevils, Chelsea fans channel and Redmen TV and on a fairly consistent basis their videos get far more views than the likes of BMRTV, though with that said, SpurredOn the Spurs channel seems to have bit the dust, so perhaps the Sky Sports beloved top four of old Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea are the only ones able to keep a sustainable fan channel going.
My personal favourite other than BMRTV, in terms of content and structure, is West Ham Fan TV, but maybe we've nailed it right there! You've an image problem, you're neither Nicky "awkins"...
Or the girl off the Chelsea fans channel...
:-)
The Football Republic network, which is owned by Shotglass Media. a digital wing of Fremantle UK, paid your salary while you were at BMRTV I assume. There was a long running thread a while back about whether a fan channel, by the fans for the fans, could be any such thing when it was owned by a production company like Fremantle UK, the company behind The Apprentice, Take Me Out and Britain’s Got Talent.
If you want to see the difference between two hard working knowledgeable lads winging it in front of a camera and how a professional media company operates, one should look no further than the argument between Gary Neville and Arsenal fan TV, it has been milked for all its worth by a professional production company that can spot a rich seam of profitable publicity when it sees it, but for all that, it's a cut throat business model, I don't need to tell you that.
After the fabulous Monaco game Tuesday night and then all Wednesday I kept checking BMRTV, and when no fan videos appeared I knew something was definitely wrong, it made me feel sad, It really did.
I spend too much time railing against the Brexiters in the EU thread for wanting their cake and eating it, so I can't moan about a professional media company buying "authenticity" by funding a fan channel and then moan about them when they stop funding it, but for you it was your job, and your were good at it, it has real world consequences and I wish you the very best of luck.
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