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Im not sure how this an be possible as the interest in sports like snorzeville baseball as well as other sports that use a ball do not have much interest in the next generation of kids. I do not see how the audience of older and older people can generate the justification of those kind of media buy clout. There is not the affection for the game there was even 25 years ago. You dont see teenagers grabbing their balls and gloves for a “pick up” game, they jump on line and play there.

The canary in the coal mine for what you are stating is in Los Angeles. SportsNetLA payed way too much for the rights to the Dodger games that it cannot get on cable or satellite carriers as a premium channel. The carriers will only take it if it is on a separate sports tier. The carrier wants to charge extra to customers who want the channel to justify its cost to them. Thus the Dodgers are not on TV in LA on 75% of the market. In the future, some of these MLB TV deals are going to decrease as the rights holders lose big money with these current deals.