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Sox looking to sell their maj share in NESN?

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Ken Fang tweet:
>>Sources telling me that the Red Sox are looking for a buyer for NESN and have approached Comcast and Fox. NESN may play one off the other.

I believe the Sox own 80% of NESN (Del. North the rest)
 
The Sox might not make as much money. A straight rights deal (after the Sox sell their share of NESN) might actually leave the Sox with less money earned from TV coverage.

The reason Sox games disappeared from over-the-air TV a few years back was that the Sox discovered that they would make more money by moving to NESN the 30 regular-season games each season that had been on over-the-air TV compared to selling the rights to those 30 or so games to an over-the-air TV station.

However, I could see a NESN/CSNNE merger, as long as the Sox and Bruins still had a piece of a combined network.
 
Something similar to the Yankees selling 49% of YES to FOX? I've seen stories where FOX is interested in more local baseball rights. I believe FOX wants to simulcast some local games that they own the rights to over FS1. There's stories down here in Philly that FOX is looking to start a regional sports net down here and pull the Phillies from CSN-Philly, the first CSN. If Comcst wins, they merge the 2 and keep 2 channels plus a third for overflow when all 3 teams play? You guys don't have TCN (the old CN8) up there anymore.
 
Both NESN and CSN-NE have their own overflow channels, both in SD and HD. Some cable systems only carry the SD overflow.
 
CSN-NE has an overflow?
A NESN/CSNNE merger would be interesting with NESN being the Red channel,CSN-NE bring the green channel and the current NESN overflow being the Blue channel
 
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