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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
But you don't live in an NBA city!
Do you realize that there are more people in California (40 million) than all of Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Kansas and Missouri combined (26 million)? Hell, the Los Angeles basin alone has 22 million.
I hate to break this to you all and I don't want to come across as a dick but the bottom line is that the networks couldn't give two shits what your area numbers are for the NBA.
It's ALL about the West Coast and Upper Northeast. That's where the population, therefore viewership and ad revenues, are in this country. Networks don't even bother re-broadcasting TV shows to the Central time zone at their designated time slots on the East or West coasts.
And NBA basketball is huge in those regions, which is why they're nearing a record TV contract.
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And this is pretty much why a ton of people think ESPN sucks. They cater to huge markets while ignoring small ones.
It might be a good business model for them, but it's going to cost them viewers as there become more and more sources for a midwesterner to get their sports news without having to sit through 45 minutes of a boston/new york circle jerk.