$250 fee for electricity use? !!

Yes. Because unions!

 

Back in the day before stadiums had wireless, if you wanted a phone line, it sometimes cost as much as $150 per game.

 

You don't think unions add expense? Trade unions, at convention centers?

Some of these costs have been lowered in Chicago, to prevent the loss of major trade shows. But, the union rules do make it very expensive to run power to a booth at a trade show, and probably to a press table at an arena too.

 

Knew a guy once who set up a booth at some trade show in Chicago. His table leg was loose so he pulled out his screwdriver and fixed it. Caught holy hell and almost got thrown out. He ended up having to pay something small plus having to pay something like $20 to have his surge protector plugged in.

 

Oh, yeah. Small-market radio stations are grateful we've moved past that. Now, they broadcast on cellular instead of land lines with the transmissions sounding worse than those of the Mercury space program.

 

Huge money grab.

According to BluegrassRivals.com -- message forum on eastern side of the state -- players and coaches of the eight boys' teams or eight girls' teams in the tournament (side is hosting both tourneys on alternating days) are charged to watch games they're not in, even if they have players/coaches passes.

HOWEVER, I was told the $250 was for the big TV trucks. In Kentucky, regional tournaments aren't encouraged to be on live TV anyway. If you wanna set up your big truck in the back and film all day long every day, that's who pays the $250.

Don't think the $250 was meant for laptops and cell phones and tablets and printers.

 

SMG is why the Kansas State High School Activities Association moved the Class 6A and 5A state wrestling tournaments out of Intrust Bank Arena after one year and why there will never be a state basketball tournament held there.

The wrestling tournaments are now at a smaller arena in a Wichita suburb and when they moved Class 6A basketball to Wichita, they put them at Wichita State.

 

It's the unions Kid.

 

You mock the idea that unions raise costs at convention centers/arenas.

Do you actually deny it? It's a fact.

I can understand if you want to argue that it's worth the cost, or some such thing, but it's silly to act like it's not true.

 

Facts are malleable. Running electric to a sat truck is $250 a day and that seems reasonable.

At least to me, I'm not in the teevee business.

That gets turned into busting on a union when people think that it is for an outlet on press row when it wasn't.

 

The arenas can charge that money anyways and pocket it themselves, instead of paying it to their workers.

 

Yes. I mock the idea. It's ridiculous.

Treating employees like people and not like depreciating assets to be used and thrown away is what raises costs.