Marty34 Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 8y/$5.6B http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ga.../1#.UD1Mt6Ph-Sp Kind of surprised they went back to ESPN. They've seemed to have a love/hate relationship, but they probably weren't ready to commit fully to NBC sports network or whatever it is called Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 The deal, which starts in 2014, includes: Rights to produce a new, daily baseball studio show. Ten additional regular-season games, including four more covering pennant chases in late September and up to six more during holiday weekends like Memorial Day. No local TV blackouts for ESPN Monday and Wednesday prime-time games. Rights to air all regular-season tiebreakers, if there are any. The ability for SportsCenter to air highlights of games still in progress. The ability to have top teams appear on ESPN Sunday night games more often. All ESPN MLB shows, including games and studio shows, will become available digitally via WATCHESPN. MLB apparently doesn't realize how much they are killing baseball. The lifting of local blackouts for Monday/Wednesday games and the relaxing of restrictions on how frequently teams can be on Sunday night both add up to even more Yankees games on ESPN. Aside from the problem of making the fans of the other 29 teams hating the Yankees even more, there is the larger problem in that FOX has the World Series, and in the 75% of years that the Yankees don't make the World Series, their ratings are terrible because ESPN has been showing nothing but Yankees all season, and then the networks all use the low World Series ratings as evidence that nobody cares about the other 29 teams and show the Yankees even more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 QUOTE (Marty34 @ Aug 28, 2012 -> 06:05 PM) 8y/$5.6B http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ga.../1#.UD1Mt6Ph-Sp Kind of surprised they went back to ESPN. They've seemed to have a love/hate relationship, but they probably weren't ready to commit fully to NBC sports network or whatever it is called That's approx. $23 million a year per team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty34 Posted August 29, 2012 Author Share Posted August 29, 2012 QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 29, 2012 -> 07:02 AM) MLB apparently doesn't realize how much they are killing baseball. The lifting of local blackouts for Monday/Wednesday games and the relaxing of restrictions on how frequently teams can be on Sunday night both add up to even more Yankees games on ESPN. Aside from the problem of making the fans of the other 29 teams hating the Yankees even more, there is the larger problem in that FOX has the World Series, and in the 75% of years that the Yankees don't make the World Series, their ratings are terrible because ESPN has been showing nothing but Yankees all season, and then the networks all use the low World Series ratings as evidence that nobody cares about the other 29 teams and show the Yankees even more. I disagree with the premise that World Series ratings are low because the Yankees are on ESPN all the time. I think WS ratings are low because by the time it is on people have had their fill of baseball for the year. Postseason is too long, too many teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve9347 Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Nice, no local TV blackouts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodAsGould Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 QUOTE (Marty34 @ Aug 29, 2012 -> 10:36 AM) I disagree with the premise that World Series ratings are low because the Yankees are on ESPN all the time. I think WS ratings are low because by the time it is on people have had their fill of baseball for the year. Postseason is too long, too many teams. Baseball has the least amount of teams in the playoffs, I don't understand how you say too many teams.... The problem is baseball isn't as fun to watch as the other sports and it's as simple as that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Baseball has the least amount of teams in the playoffs, I don't understand how you say too many teams.... The problem is baseball isn't as fun to watch as the other sports and it's as simple as that. You just made me realize something kinda weird. I enjoy watching Sox games much more than Bears or ND games, but I enjoy watching non-Bears or non-ND football games much more than I enjoy watching non-Sox baseball games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 QUOTE (Marty34 @ Aug 29, 2012 -> 10:36 AM) I disagree with the premise that World Series ratings are low because the Yankees are on ESPN all the time. I think WS ratings are low because by the time it is on people have had their fill of baseball for the year. Postseason is too long, too many teams. I agree except for the too many teams. By the time it is the World Series, I've gotten a little bored of baseball and am in the football mode. Also, I really like ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball broadcast, really enjoyable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juddling Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Yeah!!!!!! Now we can see even MORE Yank-me vs. Red Suxs games!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptatc Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Aug 29, 2012 -> 03:30 PM) Baseball has the least amount of teams in the playoffs, I don't understand how you say too many teams.... The problem is baseball isn't as fun to watch as the other sports and it's as simple as that. This may be part of it but a larger part is that it's the most difficult team to bet and a play fantasy sports with. The NFL has an easy betting line and with games on no more than 3 nights a week (usually 2) it lends itself to the fantasy aspect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YASNY Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I'd much rather the Sox in a September pennant race game than a Bears game. I love the Bears and the NFL, but I'm a Sox fan first, Bears fan second, baseball fan third and NFL fan fourth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty34 Posted October 3, 2012 Author Share Posted October 3, 2012 (edited) Fox and TBS renewed their TV deals with MLB. About $50M per team per season when you add the ESPN deal. Counting their local tv deals, the Sox will be banking about $100M a year from TV starting in 2014. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-02/m...-tv-rights.html Edited October 3, 2012 by Marty34 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiliIrishHammock24 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 QUOTE (Marty34 @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 08:16 PM) Fox and TBS renewed their TV deals with MLB. About $50M per team per season when you add the ESPN deal. Counting their local tv deals, the Sox will be banking about $100M a year from TV starting in 2014. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-02/m...-tv-rights.html What have we made previous years? Is $100M good or bad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty34 Posted October 3, 2012 Author Share Posted October 3, 2012 QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 07:27 PM) What have we made previous years? Is $100M good or bad? Roughly, I believe it has been in the $75M range from local and national TV since moving to Comcast from Fox Sports Net. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Fridays: Yanks vs Red Sox on MLBN Sat: yanks vs Red Sox on Fox Sun Yanks vs Red Sox on ESPN Book it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty34 Posted October 3, 2012 Author Share Posted October 3, 2012 The $100M the Sox get only covers national TV and Comcast I believe. I think you have to throw another $15M or so for the WGN games. The money from local tv deals is really hard to find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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