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Could the World Series eventually move to Fox Sports 1?

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Could the World Series move to cable in the future? You might scoff at the notion now, but Fox Sports president Eric Shanks didn’t completely debunk the notion in a conference call earlier this week, as reported by Capital New York.

“There will be an evolution down the road, maybe,” he said Monday in response to a reporter question about whether the program could ever air on cable.
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Cue the pitchforks.

http://awfulannouncing.com/2014/wor...ign=world-series-eventually-move-fox-sports-1
 
Who could have imagined Monday Night Football on ESPN? But it happened.

They key thing for FS1 is getting carriage on cable systems. They need to demonstrate to advertisers and MLB that they can attract the masses on this new channel.
 
In the past, Congress has held baseball's anti-trust exemption over their heads to keep the World Series on broadcast. If they ever let it move to cable, we'll really know they've given up on broadcast.
TheBigA said:
Who could have imagined Monday Night Football on ESPN? But it happened.
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Monday Night Football did not move to ESPN, it switched places with ESPN's Sunday night package and changed networks in the process. Yes, MNF set cable ratings records for ESPN that SNF never did, but do not fall for ESPN's hype that the MNF of today carries on the same legacy as that of Howard, Frank and Dandy Don. Look at some of the matchups ESPN gets that ABC never would have if you don't believe it.

They key thing for FS1 is getting carriage on cable systems. They need to demonstrate to advertisers and MLB that they can attract the masses on this new channel.
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Carriage is not FS1's problem. FS1 has cracked the 90-million home mark. The problem is getting non-NASCAR fans to watch the channel regularly.
 
I think he means with FOX Sports 1 you need the digital box but with ESPN you don't.

Where I am I can view ESPN, ESPN2, NBCSN all without the digital box plus the regional sports network.
 
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TheBigA said:
They key thing for FS1 is getting carriage on cable systems. They need to demonstrate to advertisers and MLB that they can attract the masses on this new channel.
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FS1 is on more cable systems than most realize. Problem is getting lazy viewers to find it in their cable lineup. Same for NBCSN.

Wonder how many homes sibling FS2 is in? We have it on Xfinity here in Houston, but only in standard-def.
 
Morgan Wick said:
In the past, Congress has held baseball's anti-trust exemption over their heads to keep the World Series on broadcast. If they ever let it move to cable, we'll really know they've given up on broadcast.
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If anyone attempts to bring any sort of anti-trust action against any major sports league, they'll probably lose. The league will argue (rightly) that though they have a "monopoly" on their branded product, they are simply one competitor in the spectator sports industry. All major sports leagues are competitors with each other in the spectator sports industry. So, even though MLB has their branded product, baseball, while the NFL has football and the NBA has basketball, they all compete with each other for the fans' to sell tickets. It's no different from GM having a "monopoly" on making Cadillacs, while Ford has a the same on Lincolns, and Chrysler has the same on Dodges.

That's why no one will go after any major sports league on anti-trust violations. They know they'll lose.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
FS1 is on more cable systems than most realize. Problem is getting lazy viewers to find it in their cable lineup. Same for NBCSN.

Wonder how many homes sibling FS2 is in? We have it on Xfinity here in Houston, but only in standard-def.
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Notice all of the complaints from baseball fans for the games being on FS1? That's the whole problem, people are just too lazy to use the remote, I mean it's simple, but it's America, people thinks they have the right to be lazy, if I was to be the president I would take that right away because I would want people to be active, and moving around.
 
I agree, 'I can't find a channel' is a pretty lazy/weak excuse(Worse when sportswriters waste column space on tearing the networks a new one because they had to click past unfamiliar channels like PBS, HBO, and the Not For Idiots Network to find FS1.)
People can find a channel in the amount of time required to log in and write about how they can't find a channel.
Then, there are all the dopes who CAN find it, but they can't understand why a game is on, instead of 'Everybody Loves Raymond' reruns.
 
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I agree, 'I can't find a channel' is a pretty lazy/weak excuse(Worse when sportswriters waste column space on tearing the networks a new one because they had to click past unfamiliar channels like PBS, HBO, and the Not For Idiots Network to find FS1.)
People can find a channel in the amount of time required to log in and write about how they can't find a channel.
Then, there are all the dopes who CAN find it, but they can't understand why a game is on, instead of 'Everybody Loves Raymond' reruns.
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Dumb people, that's the problem we got in this society right now.
 
While FS1 is a new branding the network has been around for a long time. We just called it Speed. Carriage is not the issue. It's Fox's inability to get people interested in it.

Maybe in 4 years when they show the World Cup they will grow a following, until then there really isn't anything worth watching on it.
 
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Don CT said:
While FS1 is a new branding the network has been around for a long time. We just called it Speed. Carriage is not the issue. It's Fox's inability to get people interested in it.

Maybe in 4 years when they show the World Cup they will grow a following, until then there really isn't anything worth watching on it.
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I wish everyone involved in running any sort of network, OTA or Cable, understood that simple fact.
 
davidgheller47 said:
Dumb people, that's the problem we got in this society right now.
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See it whenever people who don't like sports complain about a sporting event pre-empting their favorite show (On Sunday, CBS dropped 'CSI' in the Eastern and Central zones because a game had run long). People who watch football and get how everything works weren't overly concerned, but there's always that segment of the population that never knows when footballs on, and they cry for mommy and fill a diaper if they miss something.
 
onairb said:
See it whenever people who don't like sports complain about a sporting event pre-empting their favorite show (On Sunday, CBS dropped 'CSI' in the Eastern and Central zones because a game had run long). People who watch football and get how everything works weren't overly concerned, but there's always that segment of the population that never knows when footballs on, and they cry for mommy and fill a diaper if they miss something.
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When there is an over run, does that help or hurt the network. It must throw off the ratings. Do networks like when Football runs long or would they rather it end in the time window.
 
CBS has yet to learn from what Fox eventually had to on doubleheader Sundays--run a postgame show as filler during the 7pm (ET) hour, and not schedule 60 Minutes until 8. They especially should have figured that out once the NFL decided to start the late doubleheader games at 4:25pm ET, and knowing that NFL games take at least three hours to complete.

It took them a number of years, but at least Fox knew better than to put new programming in the 7pm hour during football season...that time slot is the "kiss of death".
 
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CBS has yet to learn from what Fox eventually had to on doubleheader Sundays--run a postgame show as filler during the 7pm (ET) hour, and not schedule 60 Minutes until 8. They especially should have figured that out once the NFL decided to start the late doubleheader games at 4:25pm ET, and knowing that NFL games take at least three hours to complete.

It took them a number of years, but at least Fox knew better than to put new programming in the 7pm hour during football season...that time slot is the "kiss of death".
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Again, that's another self-evident truth that the suits running network television just cannot understand.
 
Avid Listener said:
Again, that's another self-evident truth that the suits running network television just cannot understand.
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The problem is the suits rely more on the ratings vs the content. If they give a show 2 seasons then cancel we would have better shows vs cancel after 4 episodes.
 
Don CT said:
The problem is the suits rely more on the ratings vs the content. If they give a show 2 seasons then cancel we would have better shows vs cancel after 4 episodes.
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More importantly, with better shows, they'd have overall better ratings. Their short-term mentality will destroy OTA networks in the long run.
 
Avid Listener said:
More importantly, with better shows, they'd have overall better ratings. Their short-term mentality will destroy OTA networks in the long run.
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I have to wonder what the execs at NBC are thinking. They must know the shows they are ordering suck. Are they just doing hit and runs hoping to get a quick burst of ratings. I don't see a lot of their shows being able to run for 5 years. Maybe The Blacklist is the only one they can hold long term. Their comedies suck and most of their new dramas won't last. Are they just being out bid for great shows or are they just oblivious.
 
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