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Sash!
Mar 16, 2001


The American Dream posted:

I’ve also seen bare tit on turner classic movies at 7pm on a Saturday. You can show hardcore porn on basic cable, it’s just that no company would ever carry that station.

TCM used to do some uncut Saturday after midnight double feature with movies that typically get edited even for TCM.

The night that they ran Death Race 2000/Rollerball was a hell of a night

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Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

Dexo posted:

It extremely will.

Once again, Live sports/events is the only thing that draws.

There is a reason NBC wants back in on the NBA.

that's why they paid for their share of the big ten, they had a hole after losing the nhl

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/AndrewMarchand/status/1638276134881185796

Nodoze
Aug 17, 2006

If it's only for a night I can live without you
https://nypost.com/2023/03/21/mlb-to-stream-all-minor-league-games-for-free-on-ballys-casinos-app-sources/

NYPost posted:

Major League Baseball owners have cut a deal with a casino giant to provide free broadcasts of all minor league games this season — a bid to lure more viewers to the sport as rampant cord-cutting continues to shrink its audience, The Post has learned.

MLB sold the broadcasts rights to all 120 minor league teams — from the Class A Savannah Sand Gnats to the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes — to casino operator Bally’s Corp., which will offer the free streams on its Bally Live app, according to two sources.
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred pitched the deal — for an undisclosed amount – as a way to increase the reach of the minor league broadcasts, according to a presentation shared with MLB owners.

The free minor league games on the Bally Live App will launch April 15. There will be no blackouts for home games, sources said.

The deal comes as Diamond Sports, the regional sports network that owns the rights to broadcast 14 MLB teams, filed for bankruptcy this month, as The Post reported.

InsensitiveSeaBass
Apr 1, 2008

You're entering a realm which is unusual. Maybe it's magic, or contains some kind of monster... The second one. Prepare to enter The Scary Door.
Nap Ghost
Lol gently caress Sinclair

Dr_Strangelove
Dec 16, 2003

Mein Fuhrer! THEY WON!

Sash! posted:

The night that they ran Death Race 2000/Rollerball was a hell of a night

Ten–11 year old me did that double thanks to Showtime circa 1981 :eyepop:

Nissin Cup Nudist
Sep 3, 2011

Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land





I thought the Ballys RSNs were going bankrupt

Paracaidas
Sep 24, 2016
Consistently Tedious!

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

I thought the Ballys RSNs were going bankrupt
Sinclair Broadcasting (lovely rightwing assholes even by television standards) create Diamond Sports to load up with debt acquire stations when Fox was forced to divest.

They then partnered with Ballys for naming rights of the Diamond Sports stations.

Diamond is going under. Ballys itself is fine.

Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

Paracaidas posted:

Sinclair Broadcasting (lovely rightwing assholes even by television standards) create Diamond Sports to load up with debt acquire stations when Fox was forced to divest.

Disney. :eng101: The Disney acquisition of Fox was contingent upon Disney agreeing to sell the Fox Sports RSNs following the sale. Sinclair was essentially the only bidder.

Paracaidas
Sep 24, 2016
Consistently Tedious!
Brainfart, you're entirely correct.

harperdc
Jul 24, 2007

Paracaidas posted:

Sinclair Broadcasting (lovely rightwing assholes even by television standards) create Diamond Sports to load up with debt acquire stations when Fox was forced to divest.

They then partnered with Ballys for naming rights of the Diamond Sports stations.

Diamond is going under. Ballys itself is fine.

Timby posted:

Disney. :eng101: The Disney acquisition of Fox was contingent upon Disney agreeing to sell the Fox Sports RSNs following the sale. Sinclair was essentially the only bidder.

Both of these are correct, the “Bally’s Sports” naming so far has been just licensing IIRC.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


WBC final did great numbers

https://twitter.com/AustinKarp/status/1638638445139566600?s=20

harperdc
Jul 24, 2007

I’ll see you and raise over 40% of TVs in the Tokyo/Yokohama area

quote:

For the final game between Japan and the U.S. on Wednesday morning, the average broadcast viewership in the Kanto region was around 42.4%, peaking at 46% when Ohtani struck out his Los Angeles Angels teammate Mike Trout in a dream matchup, according to a preliminary survey by Video Research. The average rating in the Kansai region was 35%.

Keep in mind that’s for a Wednesday with the game starting from 8 am Japan time :psyduck:

Dinosaurs!
May 22, 2003

It’s an embarrassment they didn’t put it on Fox.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Awful Announcing posted:

Curtis opened Thursday morning’s episode of The Greg Hill Show on WEEI announcing he has been suspended until next Wednesday, claiming he intended to say the name of actress Mila Kunis, but accidentally said Mina Kimes.

“In a pathetic failed attempt at a one-liner, I attempted to bring up Mila Kunis, which was not really that funny – sophomoric and sexist,” Curtis began. “But for reasons I don’t understand, I said Mina Kimes. That was never the intention for me to say her name. It had nothing to do with the subject matter and it dragged her into a controversy through no fault of her own regarding a slur and her race and is not at all what my intention was, but it doesn’t matter because of the absolute chaos that my words created for someone who’s just doing her job covering the NFL at ESPN.

“So, I want to apologize to Mina Kimes, I want to apologize for the stupid, lame attempt at a joke, it was something that just, there’s really no other way to put it, it was dumb and it was silly. And it’s brought a lot of things to the forefront for people that did nothing wrong and it’s all because I had a clumsy attempt to try and bring humor to a story in Boston.”

Using the strange defense that he meant to say Kunis, who is Ukrainian, in reference to a conversation about “nips,” seems to claim the joke was intended to be sexist, not racist. Curtis proceeded to apologize to listeners of The Greg Hill Show, he did not apologize to Kunis.

“I agree with you, Curtis,” host Greg Hill said. “That is not what this show is and that is not what this radio station is. When it comes to that happening on this radio show I think that all of us apologize to those that were offended by it.”

Curtis called working at WEEI “the dream of my life.” In 2018, the entire radio station suspended programming for a day to undergo mandatory sensitivity training following a string of offensive on-air remarks made by various hosts, culminated by WEEI host Christian Fauria using a stereotypical Asian accent while impersonating Tom Brady’s agent Don Yee.

soggybagel
Aug 6, 2006
The official account of NFL Tackle Phil Loadholt.

Let's talk Football.
We need a WEEI has not had a deeply embarrassing incident in X Days counter.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Holy poo poo Mina

https://twitter.com/minakimes/status/1638972385130082304

:thurman:

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
Man Whitlock crying about rap music on 2023

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010
Evergreen
https://twitter.com/DragonflyJonez/status/1034972469831127041?t=8fk7AX46oydwkUIn34QlHg&s=19

Kalli
Jun 2, 2001



Always funny to remember then Whitlock, after being dumped by Clay Travis now works for Glenn Beck's The Blaze, not even one of the successful right wing media networks.

soggybagel
Aug 6, 2006
The official account of NFL Tackle Phil Loadholt.

Let's talk Football.

This is a legendary tweet.

Squinky v2.0
Nov 16, 2006

Behind you! A three headed monkey!

College Slice
The average WEEI listener has to be pushing 70

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Squinky v2.0 posted:

The average WEEI listener has to be pushing 88

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Squinky v2.0 posted:

The average WEEI listener has to be pushing ivermectin

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
Does Whitlock still yell at black people to "pull up your pants" even though that fashion style hasn't been trendy in like 20 years

Sash!
Mar 16, 2001


It sure is common for not being trendy?

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/YESNetwork/status/1641128573338632224

it's $24.95 a month and $239.99 for a year

and there's a discounted rate for those who sign up over the next month

soggybagel
Aug 6, 2006
The official account of NFL Tackle Phil Loadholt.

Let's talk Football.
Rachel Bonnetta is out at NFLN. I wonder where she’ll end up? She definitely wants to do more than sports in the future that’s for sure.

Dinosaurs!
May 22, 2003

It’s still a long way off, but maybe tanking will get fixed once the bottom falls out on RSN carriage fees and teams start chasing annual subscriptions.

I sure as poo poo wouldn’t pay a couple hundred a year for a 90-loss team.

Sash!
Mar 16, 2001


Dinosaurs! posted:

I sure as poo poo wouldn’t pay a couple hundred a year for a 90-loss team.

Imagine paying more than one American dollar to watch the Pirates.

I mean, at least when you pay more than that to go to a game, you get to spend a nice night sitting outside with some people.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
https://twitter.com/paulsen_smw/status/1642305708577157132?t=ry0ihBRdqhrPuCLZg9fNPw&s=19

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

Helps a lot that one of Iowa's players is kinda good.

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/espnpr/status/1643004893655965706?s=46

imagine if it was close

clean ayers act
Aug 13, 2007

How do I shot puck!?

imagine if it was in primetime!

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

clean ayers act posted:

imagine if it was in primetime!

Daytime slot might have been the right move even though it felt really weird for a championship game. So many people watch their big TV shows on Sundays plus Wrestlemania was on.

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

Henchman of Santa posted:

Daytime slot might have been the right move even though it felt really weird for a championship game. So many people watch their big TV shows on Sundays plus Wrestlemania was on.
On the one hand, I can't imagine a scenario where putting WrestleMania and NCAA Women's BBall on at the same would cause one to take away eyes from the other.

On the other hand, one of teams involved was from Iowa.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

I mean, they were pretty much the only thing on during that period so it’s hard to say they were wrong

The American Dream
Mar 1, 2007
Don't Forget My Balls

Crazy Ted posted:

On the one hand, I can't imagine a scenario where putting WrestleMania and NCAA Women's BBall on at the same would cause one to take away eyes from the other.

On the other hand, one of teams involved was from Iowa.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

The Twins and Guardians didn't get their TV rights payments and MLB is telling the shambling corpse of Diamond Sports to pay up or get hosed.

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DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


The PAC-12 is now all the way down to courting the CW for television coverage

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