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BGI Radio: "The Irish Huddle" Pt. 1

  • http://notredame.247sports.com/Article/Notre-Dame-Football-BGI-Radio-Irish-Huddle-September-23-Part-1-41352

    The former "voice of Notre Dame football" Tony Roberts joins former sports information director Roger Valdiserri and BGI senior editor Lou Somogyi for "The Irish Huddle".

    BlueGold Staff

  • The huddle should be done by Friday not starting on Friday. Doesn't make sense. I live on west coast am I supposed to get up at 6am to listen to this? Please record the show and play back wed thu and friday. It would be much more enjoyable. I used to really enjoy the show. I quit listening due to day three being on saturday. Saturday is game day. It is not a day to analyze, it's a day to enjoy watching football games!

    TheSauce

  • Come into the current century on your programing.

    bubbs2424

  • I have already commented to Jason regarding the new format of this show. Breaking it up into 3 separate segments is annoying. This is supposed to increase the number of hits apparently because people have to come back for parts 2 and 3? That is a pretty cynical attempt. How about just producing a decent show?

    This latest show was brutal. You picked a great topic, brought an excellent guest Gene Corrigan, started the show well, and then Tony went rambling complete nonsense on his VOIP phone in which you could pick up only part of what he was trying to say anyway. Then he picks a fight with Roger Valdeserri. Gene Corrigan was completely ignored meanwhile, and oh look - shows over because you are looking for more hits from annoyed listeners looking for part 2.

    Come on guys. You had the format working well for several years. Don't overthink this.

    This post was edited by Irish Cedar on 9/23/2011 at 10:20 PM

    Irish Cedar

  • Great topic! However, it went haywire. Love you guys anyway.

    Sleepyscrapiron

  • Tony: "I read it on the internet! I did my homework for this show!"

    It doesn't get any better than that.

    POTW 8.8.11-8.15.11/ Co-Founder Gringo Mafia

    GIGA

  • TheSauce said...

    Please record the show and play back wed thu and friday.

    That's a fair suggestion. This week's show was recorded on Thursday and scheduled for a Friday/Saturday run.

    But I believe that many of the other shows this season have been recorded on Wednesday. We're at the mercy of Tony and Roger's schedules. But such a schedule modification might be possible, and is worth looking into.

    John Haynsworth

  • Irish Cedar said...

    This is supposed to increase the number of hits apparently because people have to come back for parts 2 and 3? That is a pretty cynical attempt.

    That actually couldn't be further from the intention. The initial reason the change to the format of the show was to cut down the length of what was an hour or longer podcast. The show was broken up within that hour into (typically) three topics, so that's how we arrived at our current format.

    We're on a new hosting platform now, but our former host allowed us to view the actual time spent listening to the shows, and we found that we lost listeners as the show progressed. The attention span of the internet/podcast audience doesn't really lend itself to an hour-long show.

    With three shorter segments, we get better involvement from a listener standpoint.

    Additionally, we only have the privilege of working with Tony and Roger for one day per week. A three-segment format allows us to get more usage out of the time spent with those co-hosts.

    The show generates good traffic, but not so great that spreading it out over three web pages is so profitable from a cost-per-view standpoint with our advertising partners.

    Now, you do bring up an interesting issue. We've found that three segments works well for most based on additional feedback since we moved to that format, but I'm sure we could offer the entire show as an hour-long segment. Having a segment that we can run each day for three days works well on our homepage, but we could look at making the entire show available through our premium member board here on Rockne's Roundtable. That certainly isn't unreasonable, and we appreciate your feedback.

    John Haynsworth

  • John

    Thanks for the background and reasons for the why/how.

    I am a speaker with a line of audio courses. The company that produces them insists on segments of no more than 25 minutes. That seems the magic number for the U.S. listening audience.

    So .. my suggestion: consider releasing the entire show - say on a Thursday - but in three segments. In that way, listeners could choose how much he/she wishes to hear at a sitting.

    Keeper of the Count to Resurrection II: the Kelly Era begins - - POTW: June 2010 & August 2011 - - member since 2004

    ashaia

  • John
    Thanks for the response. Appreciate the hard work you guys put in, I want to be sure and enjoy it all!

    TheSauce

  • These are good suggestions. I will gather them and discuss them as a whole with the staff.

    Thanks again for the feedback.

    John Haynsworth

  • The quality of Tony's phone/connection is still really annoying.

    magogian

  • John Haynsworth said...

    That actually couldn't be further from the intention. The initial reason the change to the format of the show was to cut down the length of what was an hour or longer podcast. The show was broken up within that hour into (typically) three topics, so that's how we arrived at our current format.

    We're on a new hosting platform now, but our former host allowed us to view the actual time spent listening to the shows, and we found that we lost listeners as the show progressed. The attention span of the internet/podcast audience doesn't really lend itself to an hour-long show.

    With three shorter segments, we get better involvement from a listener standpoint.

    Additionally, we only have the privilege of working with Tony and Roger for one day per week. A three-segment format allows us to get more usage out of the time spent with those co-hosts.

    The show generates good traffic, but not so great that spreading it out over three web pages is so profitable from a cost-per-view standpoint with our advertising partners.

    Now, you do bring up an interesting issue. We've found that three segments works well for most based on additional feedback since we moved to that format, but I'm sure we could offer the entire show as an hour-long segment. Having a segment that we can run each day for three days works well on our homepage, but we could look at making the entire show available through our premium member board here on Rockne's Roundtable. That certainly isn't unreasonable, and we appreciate your feedback.

    Bringing it to a single show is my vote, even if it is just a link on here. That's fine with me. Having it broken up is annoying to me because the show just starts getting good and then it's gone. I can't speak for the short attention spans of other listeners.

    Irish Cedar

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