Fox cuts baseball, Turner gets a new package
The Fox network will significantly reduce its $417 million a year payment for major league baseball for the next seven years with a deal down to $250 million a year. There's a catch: It will only get to air one League Champion Series and no divisional series. All divisional series will go in a new package created for Turner Sports, which will also have a slate of nonexclusive Sunday games. Executives estimate Turner paid around $120 million per year.
So maybe MLB did not lose as much as the headlines suggest. This reminds me that if you want to pay Major League Baseball for a package, you can access all the games directly from their web site.
The video quality is good. Perhaps its best attribute is that you can watch while pretending to work.
Posted by admin on July 17th, 2006 :: Filed under Internet TV
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December 4th, 2007
I wonder if this new deal isn’t actually going to affect the price of tickets. I hope not – I’d rather have the networks pay more