Now on deck for next sports TV rights deal: MLB
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I think NBC will get some games, I don't think ESPN, Fox and Turner are going to offer much more than a token increase in fees.
I think MLB has become oversaturated in the market. Only die hard fans want to watch every game every night and those are going to be on the RSN's. The casual fan has a hard time knowing what channel, day and time a national telecast is going to be on and there is much more competition now from other sports, summer shows and summer time activities.
I think MLB has become oversaturated in the market. Only die hard fans want to watch every game every night and those are going to be on the RSN's. The casual fan has a hard time knowing what channel, day and time a national telecast is going to be on and there is much more competition now from other sports, summer shows and summer time activities.
Hopefully NBC will get the Playoff and World Series. Out of all the networks that have done games over the years I believe NBC did it the best. What I would like to see come out of this is for MLB to relax some of their black out restrictions. It's way over due.
I'll take McCarver over some of these analysts. You want Chip Carey back? How about Joe Morgan? I like FOX coverage but its getting weird now. I mean there on at 8pm one week, then 4pm, then back to 8pm. They also dont have exclusive FOX MLB announcers anymore. They have Buck/McCarver but then there announce crews are made up of Fox RSN annoucers.
I like and watch baseball, but your post is along what I think. Because of the nature of baseball, 162 games, it's always on and I don't know how large the market is for out of market games on top of your own team. There's always those who live away and just want to see their team occasionally, and some just like baseball and will watch.
It might help both NBCSN and MLB if it gets most all the non RSN games during the season, just as you said, on one channel, one place to look other than the MLBN They still could put Saturday games on the NBC affiliates as they are on the FOX affiliates now, allowing people who do not have cable to see games.
I like the idea of NBCSN and NBC. Overall, they did a pretty good job with this just-ended NHL post season. But the big conflict is going to be Sunday Night Football when MLB playoffs and World Series games collide. As you read in the article, there is no way in hell NBC will give up the NFL game for an MLB game. And MLB will NEVER permit what happened in the NHL Final when a possible championship game (4) was broadcast on NBCSN rather than NBC. I think FOX will win out because of the strong ties with FSN and the regionals. And they always have F/X to fall back on early in the post season.
I would like to see NBC Sports get ESPNs Sunday and Wednesday night games. I would be fine with them taking Fox Saturday games and World Series games too but I think fox will keep them. I think the MLB would be great for NBC Sports but maybe not as great for fans because they are carried in higher tiers (AT 250 on Dish). Maybe we would finally see national games that didn't include the Red Sox or Yankees if ESPN lost their rights. I don't see ESPN letting the MLB go either though. They don't have a whole lot of other live sports during the summer months.
From Adweek, Anthony Crupi writes that NBC and Turner Sports appear to be fighting for the main cable rights to MLB. Jordan Kobritz of the Prescott (AZ) Daily Courier also looks at the MLB TV rights negotiations.
I agree about changing some of the blackout rules. When FOX has rights during a certain window, and chooses to have regional games, the games that are not on a local FOX station should be made available to MLBEI.
