SHOULD STATIONS HAVE TO BUY NFL TICKETS TO AVOID BLACKOUT RULES ?

[gregg75]

Looks like the big winner is the NFL. Aren't these restrictions clearly in their favor (instead of
equal)? Seems like a 1,500 empty seat pass.......would put stations on better, more even par.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports...again-avoid-local-tv-blackout-by-1976832.html

 

[KeithE4]

Tickets being bought by the network televising the game is nothing unusual. CBS did that for Bear games in the '70s, as long as the number of tickets was about 2000 or less. They would have lost about 2/3 of their Chicago viewership (Mostly in the city and adjacent Cook County suburbs - the rest could get the game via Rockford or South Bend) had they not done so.

 

[easttxtv]

I remember hearing several times in the late 1970s or early 1980s that KDFW/4 (when they were a CBS station) would buy up remaining Dallas Cowboys home game tix to avoid a blackout. They didn't always do this, as several viewers there would try to aim their antennas during blackouts to KXII/12 (Sherman/Denison) or KLTV/7 (Tyler, back when they could still cherry-pick among all 3 nets) instead.

 

[kenrayc]

Back in the 80s, when the Oakland Raiders wouldn't sell out for Monday Night games, KGO 7 SF and KNTV 11 San Jose would buy the remaining tickets.

 

[Iowan]

Here's an idea: GET RID OF BLACKOUT RESTRICTIONS!!