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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
damn, i need a good cable package. they're switching everything around. pain in the ass.
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That is what happens as teams and leagues get more popular, the TV contracts switch up as bigger fish start to see a bigger pie to swoop on. Here in LA the Lakers away games were on local TV for the past THIRTY YEARS! It was revolutionary when they started doing it, and it made Lakers a community team. EVERYWHERE you went in Los Angeles on any given away game night, a TV had the Laker game on, good or bad game. Last year the switched it on some multi-BILLION $ deal to strictly cable. LA folks were pissed because it was a new channel that like 800,000 people didn't even have access too! Same thing with the Dodgers. Those games used to be on Fox, but now they've been largely moved to FoxSports. Univision is the final frontier, they broadcast all the cable USMNT, Mexico, and other cable futbol matches on UniMas or sometimes KMEX34 (if its primetime) but alas, probably soon they will go all cable because Univision has a cable channel too!!