The main reason I am interested in this subject is because I participate in this activity. This question is one that I am particularly interested in for a few reasons. One major reason is that at least at Carolina Band we put in many hours a rehearsing and twelve hour straight days on game day. Because of that I personally feel like we should get some credit and be televised for our halftime show or pregame. Another reason is that most of our parents cannot afford to come to every game or sometimes not even one and therefore cannot see their child perform with the band at all possibly. If the performances were also televised then they could watch every performance from their home. This topic affects me because it would cause me to be on TV as well it would affect my family being able to tune into the TV and watch me perform every time I do so. I have personally performed seven pre-game shows and six halftime show performances, one of which was at a Carolina Panthers NFL game. Out of all of these performances a total of 15 seconds of one pre-game performance made it onto television. I believe we deserve at least a little more than that. I am qualified to talk about this because I have marched a season with Carolina Band and was at every home and away game this season except for the game versus Louisiana State University due to complications of the flood in Columbia.

In this source from Halftime Magazine there is no central claim in this article. The author does not choice to argue a certain point and instead decides to simply inform the reader about the facts of the subject. The author's main evidence she writes about are interviews with producers of college football games from the major sportscasters such as ESPN/ABC, CBS, and FOX. She also interviews some of the organizers from the BCS bowl games of the past.

It is very apparent that the author is specifically for bands being shown for pre-game and halftime. She does not however come right out and say this is the case. The author goes over several interests in this article. One is the companies that provide the TV coverages and what their views are. Other interests are those of some of the major producers of major games in the college football postseason such as the Orange Bowl, the Rose Bowl, the Fiesta Bowl, and the Sugar Bowl.

This author is fairly credible to write this article. The author, Elizabeth Geli, marched at the University of Southern California with the USC Trojan Marching Band. This is a premiere marching ensemble that plays in one of the power five conferences, the PAC-12. This however would make her biased towards the side of the marching band being on TV rather than not televised.

Unlike the previous article this article on Odyssey does try to argue a point. The author argues the point of why college marching bands should be televised. The author's first point of evidence is a personal experience that he and his father shared. The remainder of the article the author uses logos to argue his central claim.

The author clearly states that the main value of this article is that college marching bands should be televised during the broadcasts of the games. The author does tell us how televising the marching bands would affect the interests of the television companies that broadcast the games. He also mentions how this would affect the interests of the students in the marching bands. 

The author has credibility because he is in a college marching band at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He explains that while they are a division III athletic school that the band works as hard as any other to make sure that their performances on game day are up to the proper standard. Being in a college band the author does have a bias towards the band being on the television.

My last source is a more unique source. It is an online post from the Washington Post about a series of events that happened on twitter. The original post was done by sports analyst Jim Rome saying that the "dorks" that run around on the field at halftime are pretty cool. This is responded my multiple tweets from many different marching band sources and marching bands in response to this.

There are two values in this article. There is firstly the value of Jim Rome which is that he does not in any way value the people in marching band or what they do. Then there are the values of the people in marching bands which are that we do matter. There are also tow interests, that of Jim Rome, and that of the marching bands.

The author, Sarah Larimer simply only compiled the tweets that were made about this topic. She writes only a few sentences in this article. Judging from what is written in the article the author is biased towards the side of the marching bands and not to that of Jim Rome.

This research question is very arguable for a few reasons. One is because there are multiple sides to the argument all with good cases that can easily be taken from and built upon. Another reason is that this is a question I have heard many times from peers in Carolina Band and from other people I know. People we know say that we sounded great on TV and that they wished they could have seen us too and that they wonder why they do not show the band. I agree with basically everything that the sources I used have to say. I think that these sources just deepen my understanding on the subject. I think that my research question will work well.


