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NCAA Puts Limits On Live Blogging Sports Events

Instead, the NCAA has now instituted special "live-blogging rules" for anyone credentialed to cover NCAA events. The rules change per sport, but they limit how many times you can blog during the course of a game. For baseball: once per inning (not even once per half-inning!). For basketball, it's five times per half, once during half-time, and twice in overtime. Football is three times per quarter and once at half-time. It even covers the more obscure sports: you can only blog 10 times per day at a swimming match, for example. You can see all the details here (pdf).

(Biased) Source: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071220/010939.shtml

That is a decent compromise. They really cracked down on bloggers at the NCAA baseball regionals and CWS last year.

The NCAA really cracks down on things where they see a potential for selling rights. Expect to see live blogging exclusivity worked into the next round of broadcast deals.

Unfortunately for them, their "rights" are going to be questioned (and probably in court) if they keep expanding their definition of the term "broadcast". Furthermore, if they press the issue, they may see their "rights" to broadcast events at public universities questioned.

That aside, I'm not sure how they plan to enforce this. It seems to me that if I really wanted to live blog an event, I'd just forgo press credentials.

If you did that, you'd have to pay to get in...
...and the media ain't gonna pay for nothing...especially food!




(just kidding, Sly and Chris...just kidding)

Fumblerooskies wrote:If you did that, you'd have to pay to get in...
...and the media ain't gonna pay for nothing...especially food!




(just kidding, Sly and Chris...just kidding)

I'm not denying any of that.