I am a bit puzzled in how the television broadcast rights did not bring $10 Million by itself.
Can someone who is in the know tell us how the palagi company who broadcast the games (SPG-07) got the bid and how much did they pay Samoa to get those rights. Since the games were televised throughout the region, I could not see why the tv broadcast company did not pay close to $10 million for broadcasting the games. Or did one of those palagi just walked in and bs their way thru and say they did this and did that..One of the problems is we do not have Samoans in position to manage such bids properly, therefore we ask outside expertise (to assist us in managing media accreditations and bids) that are usually paid by kickbacks by winnig bidders. Also, the television coverage (broadcast television contractors) was so poor and the camera angles was so amateurish. I read somewhere that some of these guys did Olympics or some sort of world games. If that is the level of competence or the lack of it, we should have just let TV Samoa do the coverage and sell tv rights to all who can do live broadcast including KVZKTV in American Samoa. I know a little bit about media coverage, I have worked in the Rugby World Cup, NFL games plus the Superbowl and have covered major USA college games. So when I saw the so called professional main tv-broadcast (from Australia/NZ) coverage I was disappointed. Our high (Hawaii) school live coverage of football is far superior and better than the best coverage they did in the SPG in Apia....Anyway, the success of the games for Samoa may not only be measured by money paid to the government. The financial gains by the private sector and small businesses and global exposure is more important. In that Samoa profit in the long run. Thanks to the govt and the people of Samoa...Aloha ..samoanmusicandvideo..com