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Originally Posted by drmondobueno

One big problem with the mlb deal is the sheer number of games blacked out because of baseball’s need for local team revenue. Won’t be doing this next year.

Blackouts, those days are numbered.

In the past 5 years regional and national (ESPN, notably) baseball contracts have been abandoned with those waiting to pick up the pieces either absent or not willing to pay anywhere near the old values.

All of this while stadium revenues and the popularity of the game is strong...not a good indicator of the health of the current model for distributing the game.

The owners will have to re-imagine how the game broadcast framework is going to work and the money from local/regional commercial sales are being less important.