O/T Questions for someone in the US or understands the TV market

[CTMilller]

I'm not an expert but if you follow a team out of your local market, to see them on TV you either have to wait upon them being on one of the national broadcast channels (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX) to see a game (a bit like waiting for the Millers to be on MOTD) or you can subscribe to a Cable/Satellite package that covers all games in all markets. Every major league sport has it's own offering, last time I looked the MLB package was $199 for about 2,000 games.

In your local market, all major league teams (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS....etc.) are usually covered by one or maybe two channels. I'm not sure how far a market reach is, in the SF Bay area, when I lived there it included all sport/teams from SF, Oakland and San Jose. Due to the NFL teams only having 8 home games per season, some markets won't show the game unless it is sold out or 90% sold out etc.(pre COVID obviously),

You sound like an expert to me!

I can only add that my son-in-law who lives here in California is an ardent New York Yankees fan but has a subscription package that allows him to watch every Yankees game in the season on his smart phone. Happy to ask him what the package is and how it works.

[CAMiller]

You sound like an expert to me!

I can only add that my son-in-law who lives here in California is an ardent New York Yankees fan but has a subscription package that allows him to watch every Yankees game in the season on his smart phone. Happy to ask him what the package is and how it works.

That's a good point CT. I think many of the larger franchises with national fan bases like the NYY/LA Dodgers have their own packages that they sell, especially now with the proliferation of streaming.