The blackout rule is a vestige of a bygone era, when the NFL was hardly today's wildly popular money-making machine. When the rule passed nearly four decades ago, just 40 percent of NFL games sold out, and teams relied on ticket sales for most of their revenue. Now, most games sell ...
NFL Crackdown On Bars Showing Blacked Out Games Embitters FansJohn Affleck
The NFL's blackout rule has always struck me as one of the more self-defeating ideas in the marketplace. By withholding local television coverage in markets that don't sell out games, the NFL employs a passive form of blackmail: Go to the game, or miss it altogether. This isn't an ...
It's been around since the 1950s, when NFL games were first televised. Roughly one game out of ten was blacked out under the rule as recently as 2004, and in 1996 it was one out of three games. But there were no games blacked out last season, according to the NFL, and only ...
The Colts have sold out 137 of their past 138 games, and they will host a Kansas City Chiefs team that they beat handily on the road just two weeks ago. According to Michael McCann ofSports Illustrated,no NFL playoff game has been blacked out in a dozen years. ...
NEW YORK, NY — The FCC just sacked the NFL’s blackout policy. After a unanimous 5-0 vote Tuesday, the FCC ended a 40-year-old ruling that blacked out NFL games in local broadcast areas. Under the ruling, games could not be shown on TV in the NFL team’
About 50 percent of games were taken off local airwaves in the 1970s, but blackouts have happened less often in the decades since. No blackouts took place last season, while two games were blacked out the year before. TheFederal Communications Commissionlast fall repealed its blackout rules,...
finale between the Patriots and Giants that was simulcast on three channels), carriage disputes over sports networks are still massive headaches for all parties. While the carrier(s) and media companies haggle over subscriber and license fees, games are blacked out until the two sides make a ...
They were blacked out. Nate Burleson, CBS studio analyst (first called NFL games in 2015; 11 seasons as NFL player): It was nerve-racking. The broadcast boot camp taught me what I was good at, but also exposed weaknesses. When we did these mock games, I really struggled. When we ...
Finally, the Coliseum had 100,000 seats and was rarely able to fill all of them, and so most Raiders home games were blacked out on television. Numerous venues in California were considered…”…{end of excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Oakland_Raiders#1982-88}. In ...