At 12:05 PM 12/11/01, Sam Ward wrote: if it is stupid, why do you reply?
>Who cares about a sports channel. They have been on PSTV many times in the >past few years. Well, I do, if the goal is to attract new membership from young males. One needs to go to the target audience, which I don't think is at a PBS station. (maybe Animal Planet) Do you have young boys? What interests them? How do you get them excited about it? Certainly not by dragging them to an event (at lots of local clubs) where the mean age is 55. Do you know who Tony Hawk is? How do you create an RC version? Do you want to? If you want to target the Mcneil news hour crowd, I suppose a PBS station is appropriate. One has to define the goals, and then do something that will accomplish that. If you believe that the goal is NOT to attract that younger age group, I suppose the status quo is fine. >Should have picked something other than a stupid sports channel, as an >example. Be polite. My boys love to watch MTV Extreme Sports with the Skate boarders, BMX bikes, Wind Surfing, etc. First thing you learn in marketing, it where your target audience IS, and then GO there. They will not come to you. >You need to stop watching professional wrestling and start attending the >NATS. Have you ever been to one, anywhere, anytime? > >You still do not know what your talking about. Well, I suppose only Astronauts can write about space. I know exactly what the Nats is, and what it is not, just like I know the moon is not made up of green cheese. How the contest is handled is not relevant. It does not attract ONLY the best pilots. It is not broadcast to markets that new members should come from. It does nothing to attract new members. As another reply said "Sorry, but the prime effort of the Nats is to attract existing AMA members. Spectators are there, and maybe some of them do get into the hobby but the Nats is not a very good "magnet" for new blood to the hobby." He continued to say "Better "magnets" would be local clubs that have well-thought-out programs to attract "newbies", a modeling press that doesn't make it look like all there is to the hobby is the high-end, big-buck stuff (S&E does pretty good job there of showing ALL aspects), and an attitude that competition is not the "be-all end-all" of the hobby." I think it is incredibly sad to realize that the national organization is not attracting new members to it, but relying on others to do it for them. I believe that it should be their PRIME function. So again, I pose my original question which was ignored in the flames "What can you do to get some boy scouting age kid, who has never seen a RC plane fly before to attend the Nats, and watch an event or 2, and become excited enough to want to join?" I believe that the EC is thinking that having them rove from location to location may help. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
