2022 Television Predictions

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Block Communications is sold to Gray. With this deal having local impacts in my DMA as Block owns WAND-17 Decatur, IL (NBC since 2005, ABC prior).

 

[mvcg66b3r]

Block Communications is sold to Gray. With this deal having local impacts in my DMA as Block owns WAND-17 Decatur, IL (NBC since 2005, ABC prior).

Conflict in Louisville (Gray's WAVE & Block's WDRB/WBKI)

 

[PhillyNewsLover]

Conflict in Louisville (Gray's WAVE & Block's WDRB/WBKI)

Allen will eat WDRB up.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Super Bowl tonight has lower ratings than last year, despite the LA Rams playing.

 

[Mgomrjsurf]

ESPN International is doing the Game to when ABC/ESPN turn Chris Berman does it on that Channel or Radio version on ESPN Radio because most area's some how on dial pick up a Radio Feed of ESPN and yes World Series Radio feed is ESPN not Fox Sports Radio.

Megacast for Super Bowl when on ESPN and Fox that includes preseason Announcers for those Teams calling the Game to on TV. Also Super Bowl in cities without a Team like Orlando,San Diego and so on.

Also all Sportscenter shows including Scott Van Pelts done live so for Super Bowl the same set NFL Live/Sportscenter on the Road used would have been used for those shows to. So next event is March Madness outside in host city of final four a set to do Sportscenter/Scott Van Pelts show live

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

Ummm….was there a point in there somewhere?

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Super Bowl tonight has lower ratings than last year, despite the LA Rams playing.

And in St. Louis, KMOV-4's CBS' lineup tonight starting with 60 Minutes will soundly beat KSDK-5's NBC Super Bowl coverage. Because of bitterness surrounding the Rams' departure from STL and the subsequent city's lawsuit against the NFL.

 

[gr8oldies]

And in St. Louis, KMOV-4's CBS' lineup tonight starting with 60 Minutes will soundly beat KSDK-5's NBC Super Bowl coverage. Because of bitterness surrounding the Rams' departure from STL and the subsequent city's lawsuit against the NFL.

Everybody in Cincinnati will be watching

 

[Mr Tony]

Ummm….was there a point in there somewhere?

much like pretty much every one of his multiple user names posts. It either makes no sense or there is no point

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Not looking good that baseball may start on time as the lockout drags on:

MLB lockout: MLBPA unimpressed with owners' latest economics proposal, per report

MLB and the MLBPA held their first meeting in 11 days on Saturday

www.cbssports.com

This may be going on a limb, but I'm going to say the lockout drags on until June. The All-Star Game will have already been cancelled by then. There is finally a deal around July 4th and a salvaged season finally begins in late July, reminiscent of 2020. As with the 2020 COVID-shortened season, MLB and the players decide to attempt to restore fan interest after the lockout by readopting the division-based scheduling that existed in 2020 (i.e., all Eastern division teams in the AL and NL play each other all season, and likewise for the AL/NL Central and AL/NL West). And the 8-team "league tournament" format we saw in 2020 for each league returns. With three-game "wild card" quarterfinals; 5-game Division Series "semifinals"; and 7-game ALCS/NLCS before the World Series.

The changes don't help ratings and attendance as all-time lows for both numbers result. Fox even considers punting the World Series to FS1 starting for 2023, or even backing out of their MLB contract when its time for renewal.

Starting in 2023 the traditional 5-team playoff format returns but one of the post-lockout agreements extends the wild card round from "one and done" to a 3-game series.

 

[CTListener]

Surely both sides cannot be stupid or tone deaf enough to try to push another 60-game "season" on us, can they?

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Surely both sides cannot be stupid or tone deaf enough to try to push another 60-game "season" on us, can they?

That or this ultimatum by the owners, "Either a deal by July 4th or the season is completely cancelled."

 

[CTListener]

That or this ultimatum by the owners, "Either a deal by July 4th or the season is completely cancelled."

They need to set an earlier deadline. MLB blew its chance to virtually monopolize television sports during the first spring and summer of the pandemic by not starting in May as many had hoped it would. Instead, it started on July 24, only a couple of weeks before the first NFL preseason games. Again, a 60-game season (which is what a late July start would mean) is not going to fly in a non-emergency setting. Set the deadline for April 15. If the players want to play and the owners want to have a season more than they want to break the union, a late April start and 140 games would still feel like a full season.

The NHL used the nuclear option in 2004, cancelling the entire 2004-05 season. Surprisingly, the fans returned enthusiastically in fall 2005. But baseball fans have been through this too many times to behave that way if MLB '22 never happens.

 

[Mediafrog+]

The NHL used the nuclear option in 2004, cancelling the entire 2004-05 season.

Just imagine if Gary Bettman was the baseball commissioner.🤯

But baseball fans have been through this too many times to behave that way if MLB '22 never happens.

The 1994 baseball strike damaged attendance for several seasons. It took the chemically enhanced 1998 home run race to get the fans back in the stands.

Not a good situation with ticket prices increasing while baseball’s fanbase gets even older.

 

[Mgomrjsurf]

Just suggestions to what would like to see happen and at least not all together.

 

[CTListener]

Just suggestions to what would like to see happen and at least not all together.

You forgot "and so on."

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

Just suggestions to what would like to see happen and at least not all together.

But they weren’t even comprehensible