Baseball fans, prepare for more frustration.MLB owners, yet again, tabled restructuring the local and regional television territories for the league at today's quarterly owners meetings in New York, and in doing so, leaves an arcane and convoluted system in place just before the MLB Network launches on January 1. The commissioner's office has proposed an adjustment that will involve clubs losing a territory or market if they do not broadcast within it. Currently, markets such as Las Vegas sees six clubs claiming the television territory, including the A's, Giants, Padres, Angels, Dodgers, and Diamondbacks. The issue will not be broached again until the next quarterly meetings by the owners in January. Unless the league makes a provision, the ranks of those that will be faced with the "blackout blues" will grow exponentially as the new television network for the league reaches 50 million homes next season. MLB Network plans on broadcasting 26 games each seaso...
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Unbelievable....is there a reason why the owners keep putting this off? Maybe there is something I'm missing but isn't it better for the industry if more folks are watching the games. Blacking games out reduces the number of viewers.
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The tv stations have too much to say about the games.
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