Reminds me that a Dodger fan friend of mine who lives in Hawaii is blacked out of all West Coast games (Pads, Dodgers, Angels, Giants, A's, and Mariners). I assume MLB wants to encourage him to climb onto a plane and fly six hours if he wants to see a Dodger broadcast.
--Dave Sikula On Monday, November 4, 2013 7:56:38 PM UTC-8, Bob in Jersey wrote: > > > Joe Hass, to Doug Fields, in part: >> >> The reasonable question to ask of the acting Chairwoman is whether the >> Commission is interested in looking at the situation today with these other >> blackout rules (probably the two most onerous being Fox's Saturday baseball >> blackout rules and MLB's bizarre home market >> map<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/MLB_Blackout_Areas.png> >> which >> makes the entire state of Iowa part of the home market of one-fifth of the >> league and extends "home market" to distances of 500 miles or more) and >> whether they are part of "the public interest" or if they simply decide >> it's just the free market at work. Hint: if they were really serious, >> they'd just need to utter two words: "antitrust exemption". >> > > I always preferred this more-detailed, and of course larger, version of > the map linked above: > > http://www.desipio.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mlb-broadcast-map.jpg > > B > On Monday, November 4, 2013 7:56:38 PM UTC-8, Bob in Jersey wrote: > > > Joe Hass, to Doug Fields, in part: >> >> The reasonable question to ask of the acting Chairwoman is whether the >> Commission is interested in looking at the situation today with these other >> blackout rules (probably the two most onerous being Fox's Saturday baseball >> blackout rules and MLB's bizarre home market >> map<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/MLB_Blackout_Areas.png> >> which >> makes the entire state of Iowa part of the home market of one-fifth of the >> league and extends "home market" to distances of 500 miles or more) and >> whether they are part of "the public interest" or if they simply decide >> it's just the free market at work. Hint: if they were really serious, >> they'd just need to utter two words: "antitrust exemption". >> > > I always preferred this more-detailed, and of course larger, version of > the map linked above: > > http://www.desipio.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mlb-broadcast-map.jpg > > B > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
