Potential progress on blackouts

Tarkus should be happy about this, though it has a long way to go to pass:

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=ApyymKeKcPLURJuLSvCwn9ARvLYF?slu...p-black

"At the owners' meetings Wednesday, DuPuy said he will propose that if a
team is not broadcasting in a geographic location for at least one season,
it loses the right to black out games in that area. Gone would be the
blackouts that prevent folks in Iowa and Las Vegas from seeing as many as
six games each night and have caused viewing havoc throughout the country.
"I see no reason why there ought to be so many clubs able to black out in
those territories," DuPuy said. "That's my intention. That's my goal. I didn't
get any pushback. The whole thing is about making the game more popular and
available."

Colin
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In article <6g5ku7Fe69ssU1 RemoveThis @mid.individual.net>,
"Colin William" <colintwilliam RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote:

> Tarkus should be happy about this, though it has a long way to go to pass:
>
> http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=ApyymKeKcPLURJuLSvCwn9ARvLYF?slug=jp-bla
> ckouts080708&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Dr Sidbury, as well, though perhaps not so much now that TBS doesn't
have the Braves.
>
> "At the owners' meetings Wednesday, DuPuy said he will propose that if a
> team is not broadcasting in a geographic location for at least one season,
> it loses the right to black out games in that area. Gone would be the
> blackouts that prevent folks in Iowa and Las Vegas from seeing as many as
> six games each night and have caused viewing havoc throughout the country.
> "I see no reason why there ought to be so many clubs able to black out in
> those territories," DuPuy said. "That's my intention. That's my goal. I
> didn't
> get any pushback. The whole thing is about making the game more popular and
> available."
>
> Colin
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> "Science is based on a fundamental insight - that the degree to which an
> idea seems true has nothing to do with whether it is true"

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