St Louis Blues to broadcast all 82 RS games - a first
- Thread starter LadyStanley
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HansH
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I don't think that's _that_ unusual - neither the Kings nor the Ducks have all 82 RS games on local TV in the SoCal market.
LadyStanley
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Sharks last season for the first time had all 82 games broadcast.
It helped the local regional sports station has 2 main channels and an alternate (third). (What with 2 MLB, 1+ NBA and the Sharks competing, it kinda made sense. That "+" NBA team is the Sacramento Kings which "share" the secondary/alternate channels.)
Overkamp
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Big McLargehuge
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Damn...I think you'd have to go back to the KBL era to find that for the Penguins (mid-90s). I don't remember actually listening to the game on the radio because it way my only option since a Pens-Islanders game from like '96. Tommy Soderstrom got lit the **** up.
AdmiralsFan24
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Not that surprising. I'm guessing pretty much every team not in New York doesn't get every game on TV no matter what the sport.
Wings have all their games on TV. Heck, going back to the old Hawks of the 1970's, the issue was the Wirtz limited access that had previously been granted.
I think what is surprising is that STL has been around for a few decades and have some stretches of high popularity and success.
Rink Rage
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cohenzee
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Just guessing but I think he means NYC's TV stations coverages a significantly larger amount of households. Doesn't mean more people watch the Islanders than the Wings, but the potential is there.
No Fun Shogun
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huh..... I was under the impression that the Blues already had all their games televised, though that might just be leftover from my annoyance at the fact that I grew up in Champaign and couldn't watch any Hawks games and yet the Blues were on TV at least relatively often.
Suntouchable13
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I don't know if you mean just in the States, but all of Toronto's teams games are televised. Every Leafs, Blue Jays, and Raptors game is on tv.
But that has nothing to do with the topic... the guy said he believed only New York teams would have all their games televised, I informed him he was wrong.
Finnish your Czech
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I'm pretty sure even the Rock, Argos and TFC have all of their games televised. Not sure on TFC or the Rock though
And now we know just how wrong this is:
http://puckthemedia.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/number-of-games-televised-locally-by-team/
22 teams get every game televised. And of the 8 that don't, 3 are only missing one game.
I think its been 10+ years since the Bruins haven't had a game on TV, and that was only because Carolina chose not to broadcast it and to not have any cameramen there. Even then it was absolutely shocking.
Only a 2nd class organization wouldn't broadcast every game in this day and age, at least to the extent that they can.
Really? Anaheim gets all of their games broadcasted but Kings dont?
Jeez louise I thought the Kings ruled Southern California.
