inliner311
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How are mlb ratings? Basketball does not have the consistently rabid following of other sports like football, futbol, or cricket
I think the NBA and MLB have a problem with their model and it being tied to cable so much. As more families move away from cable it's going to hurt them more and more as time goes on. Casual fans turn into rabid fans especially when team get better. The question becomes how to they hook a person into becoming a casual fan if they have very little access or exposure to the local teams.
The NBA and MLB has moved away from putting games on broadcast tv. You might get a national game or two on the weekend but the local teams aren't getting the games on local TV any where close to as much anymore if they are at all. As a kid I didn't have cable but I still got to watch games when they came on local TV. Sometime it pissed me off cause it came on when my favorite TV shows were suppose to be on but I watched it because it was on. That made me a casual fan.
I know the steaming services makes it real easy go to preferred programming but I think the lost market of sports being on to just catch someone's attention by chance is really going to hurt the NBA and MLB. I think it's a big path to fandom.
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