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TNT/TBS to rebrand as Turner Sports?

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I do wanna see a 24/7 Adult Swim channel like in Canada, but more anime content instead of Fox cartoons now owned by Disney might be more appealing. HLN and TruTV might be the targets, HLN might merged its remaining true crime content to ID
 
TheBigA said:
Interesting to me that tonight, TBS will air an MLB game that is supposed to be exclusive to Amazon Prime.

Perhaps Amazon Prime is only exclusive to the team's home market, and TBS carries it nationally. But interesting.
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I believe you're right. A recent Yankees-Mets game was on Amazon Prime in New York, but was available to MLB.TV subscribers outside that market. Yes, that's streaming, not basic cable, but the same general idea. MLB.TV subscribers are not allowed to see the weekly Apple+ Friday night MLB games regardless of where they are. They need to register with Apple+ for a -- for this season, at least -- a free account and watch the games there. As I understood it, the unpaid "subscription" model was to be dropped at some point this season, but it looks like putting those games behind a true national paywall will have to wait. When it happens, the outcry will be loud and long.
 
CTListener said:
I believe you're right. A recent Yankees-Mets game was on Amazon Prime in New York, but was available to MLB.TV subscribers outside that market. Yes, that's streaming, not basic cable, but the same general idea.
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Actually that game was on the MLB cable channel, usually as part of the sports tier. They also do a 'free game of the week' which is strictly a streaming game
 
TheBigA said:
Actually that game was on the MLB cable channel, usually as part of the sports tier. They also do a 'free game of the week' which is strictly a streaming game
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MLB.TV has at least one free game just about every day of the season, as does ESPN+. And then there are the weekly games on YouTube. MLB is actually doing a decent job of getting its product out there to internet users who don't want to pay extra for MLB games, but I realize that baseball is very much a local-interest sport, and a Yankees fan would have little interest in watching a Braves-Cardinals game free on YouTube or MLB.TV. He probably wouldn't watch even if YouTube or MLB.TV offered to pay him to do so.
 
Mgomrjsurf said:
I do because in past Fox used FX for some reason to show a MLB Playoff Game.
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Fox, the OTA TV network, and FX, the cable channel, are part of the same corporation. There must be language in the MLB-Fox contract that gives Fox the right to move a game from OTA to a cable-only channel under certain circumstances, otherwise you'd be hearing the words "breach of contract" the moment it happened, You do understand that ESPN and CBS do not share common ownership, right?
 
CTListener said:
Fox, the OTA TV network, and FX, the cable channel, are part of the same corporation.
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Not any longer. FX is now part of Disney.

I'd have to assume the MLB game on FX was before the launch of FS1. Years ago, FX was one of the sports overflow channels Fox used.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
Not any longer. FX is now part of Disney.

I'd have to assume the MLB game on FX was before the launch of FS1. Years ago, FX was one of the sports overflow channels Fox used.
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Going back nearly 20 years ago in the pre-FS1 world, Fox Sports utilized both FX and what was then known as Fox Family Channel (today's Freeform) to assist Big OTA Fox in covering the MLB postseason. I believe that all changed when Turner Sports became a national MLB broadcaster.
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
Going back nearly 20 years ago in the pre-FS1 world, Fox Sports utilized both FX and what was then known as Fox Family Channel (today's Freeform) to assist Big OTA Fox in covering the MLB postseason. I believe that all changed when Turner Sports became a national MLB broadcaster.
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Yes, Turner and Fox each take a league's LCS, Fox AL, TBS NL one year. The next year they flip. The first rounds goes to ESPN for the play in games. Then TBS and Fox and ESPN share the wild card round.
 
Don CT said:
Yes, Turner and Fox each take a league's LCS, Fox AL, TBS NL one year. The next year they flip. The first rounds goes to ESPN for the play in games. Then TBS and Fox and ESPN share the wild card round.
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I fail to see how this chaotic postseason TV arrangement helps MLB in the long run. These games are the payoff to the grinding regular season, yet each round is subject to different TV arrangements, with most of them changing annually. Viewers are not only never sure just where they can see a given game, but if they can see it at all. Does their cable or streaming lineup include all these channels? Which games can they see over the air? Where do later games wind up when earlier games run long -- and the early games almost always run long!
 
CTListener said:
I fail to see how this chaotic postseason TV arrangement helps MLB in the long run. These games are the payoff to the grinding regular season, yet each round is subject to different TV arrangements, with most of them changing annually. Viewers are not only never sure just where they can see a given game, but if they can see it at all. Does their cable or streaming lineup include all these channels? Which games can they see over the air? Where do later games wind up when earlier games run long -- and the early games almost always run long!
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it's worse in the NBA playoffs. They will switch networks mid series. You never know what channel a given game will be on each day.
 
Don CT said:
Yes, Turner and Fox each take a league's LCS, Fox AL, TBS NL one year. The next year they flip. The first rounds goes to ESPN for the play in games. Then TBS and Fox and ESPN share the wild card round.
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Don't forget about MLB Network, which takes a game or two of a first-round series for itself.
CTListener said:
I fail to see how this chaotic postseason TV arrangement helps MLB in the long run. These games are the payoff to the grinding regular season, yet each round is subject to different TV arrangements, with most of them changing annually. Viewers are not only never sure just where they can see a given game, but if they can see it at all. Does their cable or streaming lineup include all these channels? Which games can they see over the air? Where do later games wind up when earlier games run long -- and the early games almost always run long!
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What MLB and its TV partners should consider is doing what the NFL does and make postseason games available in the home markets. Playoffs should be treated differently from the regular season.
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it's worse in the NBA playoffs. They will switch networks mid series. You never know what channel a given game will be on each day.
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I always thought that ESPN and Turner alternate between Eastern and Western Conferences, and ABC takes whatever the league gives them.
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
Don't forget about MLB Network, which takes a game or two of a first-round series for itself.

What MLB and its TV partners should consider is doing what the NFL does and make postseason games available in the home markets. Playoffs should be treated differently from the regular season.

I always thought that ESPN and Turner alternate between Eastern and Western Conferences, and ABC takes whatever the league gives them.
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For the conference finals they do. Not the first 20 rounds though.
 
Pertaining to Postseason including World Series,Stanley Cup,NBA Finals local crews call Games to on TV. NFL to local crews Regular Season games.
 
Yes I do and was replying to this comment what MLB and its TV partners should consider is doing what the NFL does and make postseason games available in the home markets but include all the other Sports so like if Yankees makes the World Series Yes Network can also show it which Michael Kay and so on.
 
Mgomrjsurf said:
Yes I do and was replying to this comment what MLB and its TV partners should consider is doing what the NFL does and make postseason games available in the home markets but include all the other Sports so like if Yankees makes the World Series Yes Network can also show it which Michael Kay and so on.
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You obviously don't understand, so let me break it down...

All televised postseason MLB games use national announcers. **There hasn't been any locally-originated TV coverage of MLB playoff games in nearly 40 years. In the present day, there will be no duplicate TV coverage because the networks and the league won't allow it...why? Because ESPN, Fox and Turner pay MLB huge sums of money to telecast these games. If you want local announcers, turn on your radio or the audio streams.

What I'm implying is that MLB allows its current partners to do what ESPN once did in the early years of the Division Series back in the mid- and late-'90s and allow an OTA station in the home markets to simulcast its coverage.

So, please stop with your incoherent wishing.

**–The first 15 years of the ALCS and NLCS (1969–1983), and the 1981 ALDS and NLDS were televised in the home markets by the local rights holders as well as nationally.
 
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I was just commenting in Home Markets have a choice on TV and they don't on TV anymore. ESPN International can televise the World Series to.
 
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