I am going to the Tech's in Town event in Clearlake Texas tonight. If they open the room up for questions like they did last year, I am planning on asking about the blocking of the internet broadcasts for the radio stations websites during tech sporting events.
There have been a couple of threads on this in the past and it seems like the consensus on the board is that we should charge for the video portion of All-Access but that the audio portion should be free or at least they should not block the radio station's internet broadcast during sporting events.
Most schools that I know, including some D III schools offer their internet programming for free. While I understand the need to pay for the cost of doing the internet broadcast, especially video. I think it is very petty to have our radio partners stop their internet broadcast of tech events.
Here are the links to other threads where this has been discussed on the board in the past.
http://www.latechbbb.com/forum/showthread.php?122518-Hill-Oil-s-Inside-Bulldog-Football-Radio-quot-Network-quot&p=1376237&highlight=#post1376237
http://www.latechbbb.com/forum/showthread.php?114158-LaTech-All-Access-Bdfanatic&highlight=all-access
I have personally never paid for Louisiana Tech All-Access on principle, because they are charging me for something that if I lived in Ruston, I would get for free by just listening to the radio.
I believe that a large percentage of Louisiana Tech Alumni live outside of range of our current radio broadcast network and Louisiana Tech is not being very smart in making it easy and cheap for these people to stay in touch with the university.
I bet that if we picked up a handful of new donors each year by not charging for the audio that is already being broadcast on the radio, that we would more than make up for the small amount that would be lost be people dropping the All-Access subscription to listen to the radio broadcasts.