Why are fewer national baseball games shown on local television April 8, 2010
Posted by thefuntimeguy in Sports.trackback
The Angels, for example have moved more and more games over the last 5 years to Fox Sports West (cable) and has left a smaller share to the local TV. Bottom line is money. The sports cable channel is able to buy bigger blocks of games for transmission making the team more money. In ‘02 you could only catch half the home games on local TV and almost no road games. Now every game is able to be piped in through cable/satellite. In other words, the ESPNs and FSNs are able to purchase bigger blocks of games than the local TV stations can making the team more – Sports Picks -
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