Dynamo Dropping English-Language Radio Broadcasts

Well for guys like you and me - we still like listening on the radio especially when they had the live after game show

Now almost all the games are televised or streaming online and consumed through cable or internet. Watching is so much better than listening to a game.

My kids almost never watch the live TV - they download episodes of stuff and watch it on their phones or go to a live stream on the web.

Having youtube as a sponsor for LAFC was forward looking by them and shows you how the Dynamo isn't even a 'close follower' in the business of MLS. The Dynamo are more like the 'reluctant capitulator / laggard adopter / avoid all increased investment as long as you can' business model.

They should at least have some call-in aftergame show that you can access on the radio. But until the team becomes a consistent winner they know that it wouldn't be good brand promotion for the club.

Losers are gonna keep losing in MLS 4.0

 

Hmmmm, I wonder if that's why Glenn was so upset a few weeks ago.

 

Our FO could just cut some deal with our local Latino TV stations, which there are several now in 2019, then call the game in spanish but havr the reveres SAP function by simulcast english call of the game. Our marketing department must be able to find buisnesses that figure Dynamo futbol on TV will pull enough Latino eyeballs and the sponsors and their businesses can receive foot traffic in return. Thus have the TV station absorb the broadcasting costs. Cive this in sponsors. Then the english simulcast doubles as the radio call play by play. Take this audio and stream it on our own website.

 

I know the market exists, how about that. Latino, men talk here, will take on a "mistress" team. More so if their children grow up in the specific city as this mistress team the men can take on. So the intresest might not be quote un quote high but there is a decent target market to be had for sure.​

Incorrect.
The South Americans living in the U.S. still watch their local league, the Copa Libertadores for sure! And then La Liga in Spain. With the other Euro leagues in there as well. The Sallies and Hondurans follow their local leagues as well and where their nation's players end up abroad.​

Buen futbol never gets in the way of any futbol man's appetite! Our FO just does not go long on delivering buen futbol like we used to know and watch.​

This is where the rubber meets the road. Ratings can never be lower than having no broadcast in Spanish at all. That is Zero ratings.​

Correct.
A cost overhead so that in a majority Spanish or Latino language city, even some form of English language with SAP function is not on hand this season.

Sad but true.

I would actually love to see this breakdown on league wide locals with ease of access to their MLS club's locally broadcasted games. I figure it is us with perhaps the PVC era of Columbus and even perhaps Colorado.

 

A dozen years! Try 19!
In 2000, at Butler Stadium of HISD lore no less, our city's Houston Hurricanes FC in USL play would have Danny Gonzalez go live from each home game to cover the match and do the local Saturday night sports new wrap up. This on our local Telemundo 47 station. Marinate on this, our local Latino lead sports anchor cared enough to support his city's minor league men's outdoor team that he would get a TV crew out at the home games and celebrate the team. This was in 2000! So now with our Houston Dynamo, a two time league Champion and one National Champion now, our FO cannot strike a deal to have at least some sort of Spanish language post game feed/talk. Or have this and air our Dynamo later that night or on Sunday so it is not going head to head with Liga MX or La Liga matches on Saturday day and night. KUBE re-airs our Houston matches at midnight if anyone has ever noticed this.

It really does sting a lot to hear this once again.
I know how cheap our club is and how little vision they have, but we must make inroads to our ever growing Latino market. Spanish is THE LANGUAGE of association football in our Hemisphere. It is a must WC! [/QUOTE]

 

Consisitently win and the Mexican Yetis, The Honduran Yetis, the El Salvador Yetis, Eurosnob Yetis, and Anglo Yetis will all show up leading to a full stadium.

Astros, Rockets, Dynamo doesn't make any difference, nobody wants to throw their money away on the disappointment of poor entertainment

 

consistently Win and push for championships and you will start to get airtime on TV as well

People would pack even a crappy stadium like the old Robertson if they would just show a higher level of consistent competitiveness

 

to be competitive they will need the right players and coach

the jury is still out on Cabrera but the scenery of players really hasn't changed

 

While I agree with the first part of the statement Ace, I will say that association football, like baseball, is such an old game that when it became professional, it was not "entertainment". It was, and still is at its core, an outlet for the working man and middle class man. To go meet up at your second house with your buddies and as well to take your sons or daughters to a sporting event to get them their indoctrination to the sport.
Now, in our post modern era of pro soccer, sure, the going to the game is now sold as entertainment across the board. Thus there are Dynamo fans that when asked where the team sits in the points table, they have no clue.
With this said, I go to movies and concerts to be entertained Ace.
As an old player and coach of the beautiful game, I deeply value the sport as is. To me Dynamo games are my escape from the daily grind. There are many men from all over in our diverse city that played the sport in their youth, have been going to games for decades and know what I speak of. More so if they have a son or daughter that has any ambition of playing professionals soccer one day, they ought to be out at BBVA just for the very reason to see what it takes to play these days for their local team. Perhaps not be season ticket holders in this manner, but this is how a pro soccer club fills seats outside the STH block. Find the parents and working me that know a night out at the soccer match will deliver them something beyond entertainment.
I will always rely on one truth about the beautiful game played in front of some sort of solid home ground atmosphere, the sport sells itself. Houstonians need to remind themselves imho what life was like when there was no MLS or USL team in town. But this is another topic to discuss on another thread.

 

Don't know, I was at the game.
I sure hope they found a way to stream at least the audio! The way Glenn calls a game, it will work.

 

Shrugs.