Self Proclaimed "Voice of the Cumberland"

Let's give this Facebook post his 15 minutes of fame.  Then you can come back here and read the comment I posted at the end of this which he has now cut off all comments which in turn hid this from public view.  I took a screenshot as I figured this is what he would do.





To prove that I posted a comment here's the following screenshot of the partial that a half hour later was basically deleted or hidden from view.

 There was already a “Voice of the Upper Cumberland” which covered not only video livestreams of ball games but they have a website which covers all sports programs of many of these schools.

It seems like you’re just being a copy-cat because at the end of the day they too are doing an outstanding job covering the various high school athletes, ball teams and even going as far as spotlighting all sports programs, not just basketball, or football. Btw, I didn’t see one broadcast of high school baseball this past spring come up on my feed what happened there?
There’s always the local media, you know, newspapers, radio stations and some local media even offers videostreams of high school sports. So what is it again that you do that local media outlets don’t?

You know I’ve been doing this for over 30 years and not one time have I had a head coach tell me man I wish you’d stop making money off my football program, off my basketball program, off my soccer program. No these guys get it, they appreciate and in my local area they go much more above and beyond to help. I kid you not, the coaches I deal with will literally stop what they are doing and answer a question on the spot. They love the spotlight we give their programs and their athletes because it is about the athletes. You know it as well as I do, we have the ability to get kids looked at by colleges that they would NEVER have been able to if we didn’t exist. So quit this garbage about media making money off of schools.

 We ALL have overhead. We all like to at least eat ramen noodles, we all would like a little money to pay for gas to make these trips to follow our local schools and cover them on road games and at the end of the day sometimes most of us broadcasters have left is a clipping of newspaper article we wrote about a certain game or a certain athlete that the athletic director cut out and pasted on a school wall and they along with these coaches and parents saying thank you for covering the games in the manners that you do.

Then there’s you claiming to have a dream to reinvent the wheel, while you sit out there and block local media from covering their schools sports programs just so they’ll watch yours. Why don’t you tell your audience why you’re really doing this because like I said it seems you’re just a copy cat of a group who laid the groundwork out already in being that “Voice of the Cumberland” and you burned that bridge worse than Brooklyn.

That's the comment I made on that post and rather than answer because he knows I hit the nail on the head, he doesn't want to answer those questions in public and leave a comment section open for other challenges.  

Last basketball season was the first time I ran into him.  It wasn't cool at all.  I was blocked from doing at least two local Cannon County games and let's not even talk about the postseason when even though I had the sponsors willing to pay the TSSAA fees I was not allowed to video stream not one game involving Cannon County High School from either the District nor the Region Tournaments because of his "exclusive" deals in which I wasn't even given the chance to bid if I wanted to.
I was able to broadcast the boys region opening round game in Woodbury.  Ironically for the first time in my eight years of videostreaming my video replay is deleted from Facebook minutes after a post goes up summarizing the game I just broadcast.  The reason given was for "Intellectual Property Infringment".  That's a first!  To prove my suspicions, I waited for two hours and reposted and guess what?  That one didn't get flagged.  It stayed on the Facebook site.  I'm guessing somebody must have gone to bed and didn't follow back through to check to see if it was really gone.   Then after I videostreamed the sectional game, I get a inquiry from the TSSAA stating someone complained that I was videostreaming post season ballgames without permission.  Funny thing was the representative of the TSSAA who contacted me was the very same person who gave me permission to live videostream the sectional game against East Nashville.
Never in my long history have I ever had these issues arise before.  Never.  In fact I saw some posts from the Cookeville group that they were in the middle of postseason broadcasts and they were forced to move them from Facebook to YouTube after they had already started broadcasting and it leaves me wondering if it was the same person or group that caused my video replay to disappear.  Kinda coincidental don't you think?

So just to be clear, I haven't and wouldn't ever think about blocking another local media company from covering their local schools ballgames.  So I challenge you instead of trying to figure out ways to stick it to others pull you up a seat at the table and join us as we all have the same goals as you currently claim you dream about.