How is it doing on that network? And how is FOX able to move the postseason from FOX broadcast to cable? TBS is different as its on regular cable.
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MLB Postseason on FOX Sports 1
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Just started tonight; it's fine enough coverage for Fox (as long as you don't get Joe Buck on a game it's tolerable), but the idiotic push of other games in-progress to Fox Sports 2, a network most people don't get except on the super-special sports tier, is annoying. At least TNT and TBS are both universal coverage; you don't get the same with FS2 at all.
Some cable systems don't even carry MLB Network
Fox had already moved a lot of their Saturday game of the week coverage to FS1. Get used to it. Networks can make more money from cable than from OTA. If Fox can increase carriage of FS1 on more cable systems, they can make an effort to battle ESPN.
I agree BigA tell that to those baseball fans on Twitter that were whining about the postseason being on fs1.
I agree BigA tell that to those baseball fans on Twitter that were whining about the postseason being on fs1.
I don't mind it being on FS1 at all (the more they pre-empt that Mike Fracesa the better; sports radio on TV is now officially the laziest way to fill time on a cable network ever). But they have FX, FXX, Nat Geo and how many other networks to use for overfill while they get FS2's carriage up and they still put it on FS2? At least it means fewer games with TBS's announcers, who except for Brian Anderson and a few others, seem to be calling a golf event.
I hope the NFL doesn't do that
I agree BigA tell that to those baseball fans on Twitter that were whining about the postseason being on fs1.
They need to complain to their cable company. And complain a lot. En masse.
I hope the NFL doesn't do that
They almost did. But thankfully CBS & Fox want to keep the NFL on the network. Because there are much fewer games, football is easier to sell than baseball. So for now, football stays on the network. But it won't last forever.
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This is a ploy to get people to get Cable to watch they fave team
Highest ratings for FS1. Less harm to Fox primetime shows and local news too. Works well for both the network and affiliates.
I agree
In 2 of those markets that's where Hearst owns TV stations (KMBC/Kansas City, and WBAL/Baltimore) and Scripps owns TV stations in those markets (KSHB, and KMCI/Kansas City and WMAR/Baltimore)The ALCS is Baltimore vs Kansas City. Two of the smallest markets in MLB. Can't imagine they're excited about putting that series full net.
LA had two shots at it, and couldn't win in either league.
The OTA networks wouldn't want to miss out on those infomercials that they could be showing instead of live coverage.
And San Francisco becomes by far the biggest market left standing -- but it's a shared market with a team that's already been eliminated. The network beancounters must be ready to jump from the roof.
The network beancounters must be ready to jump from the roof.
Let me do the math for you. The World Series was pre-sold. They guaranteed a certain audience number. We'll see if they achieve it. If they don't, advertisers will get make-goods, either within the Series, or in other Fox Sports programming. No refunds.
Let me do the math for you. The World Series was pre-sold. They guaranteed a certain audience number. We'll see if they achieve it. If they don't, advertisers will get make-goods, either within the Series, or in other Fox Sports programming. No refunds.
Does the same go for the LCS? The Series will attract eyeballs, no matter who's in it, especially if it goes at least six games. But that KC-Baltimore ALCS ... already the sports talkers are using cliches like "a matchup for the purists" and "two teams that play the game the right way." If there was a guaranteed number for the ALCS, I'm sure it was based on the thinking that at least one team that gets plenty of regular season exposure on the networks (In the AL, that's Boston, New York, the Angels and Detroit) is going to be in it. The Orioles hardly showed up on national telecasts until the last month or so, and the Royals hardly showed up, period. All year, viewers of national telecasts have been sold Derek Jeter, Miguel Cabrera, David Ortiz, Michael Trout. And now they're expected to get excited about Nick Markakis and Mike Moustakas? Well, at least the ratings in Greek-American households will set records.
Does the same go for the LCS?
I think everything is sold up front...which means it was sold before they knew the teams.
The Golden Girls beat game 1 of the 85 world series, but baseball is a local/regional sport, people will only tune in if their team is in, that doesn't need to happen for the NFL
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