Fox MLB Game of the Week on WWOR?

[DToTheJ]

According to Fox Sports' website, both WNYW and WWOR are listed as an "affiliate" to carry Mets/Tigers today:

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/5619630

I know they are co-owned but that seems like a rather odd listing.

 

[Mainedude2007]

aren't they always listed this way? (I think LA's KCOP & KTTV are listed the same way)

 

[cawasinnj]

Not this past weekend.

Maybe that means that some of the national Fox ads are preempted on WNYW and run instead on WWOR?

 

[ShawnHill1]

I live in the Los Angeles area, and whenever the local teams both played on Big Fox on the same day (for example, in years past...the Dodgers back east in the early slot, while the Angels would be in the late game), they would block out most of the Fox national ads on KCOP, although on occasion one or two might slip through on any given broadcast.

 

[chuckydoll]

The answer is NO

Fox5 carries the Fox network's baseball telecasts. My9 carries Yankee games not seen on YES, Fox or ESPN.

Coincidentally, My9 may lose the Yankees after this season if the ballclub moves all its non-national telecasts to YES.

 

[cawasinnj]

Re: The answer is NO

Coincidentally, My9 may lose the Yankees after this season if the ballclub moves all its non-national telecasts to YES.

I'm all for leaving at least a few games for free for those 20% or so who don't subscribe to cable/satellite, but there's something wrong in a universe where the Mets are on 11 and the Yankees are on 9. It's supposed to be the other way around, dammit!

 

[DToTheJ]

Re: The answer is NO

... there's something wrong in a universe where the Mets are on 11 and the Yankees are on 9.

$$$$$$$$

hey, does anyone remember the few years Yankee games were on Fox 5? Then I believe CBS 2 carried them for a couple years before 9 picked them up. Good to see a REAL network O&O air the games in a top market...

 

[Rollo-Smokes]

I live in the Los Angeles area, and whenever the local teams both played on Big Fox on the same day (for example, in years past...the Dodgers back east in the early slot, while the Angels would be in the late game), they would block out most of the Fox national ads on KCOP, although on occasion one or two might slip through on any given broadcast.

A scenario like that won't be happening this year (at least). Fox's Saturday games now have a solid starting time of 3:55 PM (ET), and they have exclusivity from 3:30 (when the pre-game show begins) until 7:00 PM (ET). A lot of folks don't like the new start times -- players on the East Coast complained early in the season -- but what Fox wants, Fox gets.

Also in previous years, at least here in New York, Fox never scheduled both the Yankees and Mets on the same day -- unless they were playing each other. I would assume the same deal went for the Cubs and White Sox in Chicago, the Angels and Dodgers in Los Angeles, and the Giants and Athletics in the Bay Area. But Fox didn't claim exclusivity to the extent which they do now over those three and-a-half hours of air time. Now, no game outside of the national broadcasts can begin between 3:30 and 7:00, meaning the others can either start at 1:00 or wait until 7:00 or later.

Where this is really a inconvienence involves fans of West Coast teams who, if those teams are playing in the Eastern half of the country, have to watch a locally televised Saturday day game at either 10:00 or 11:00 AM (PT) because there are some teams, the Yankees in particular, who don't play night games at home on Saturday.