Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 27, 2007
Extra Innings Hearings

You can read the submitted testimony of the principal witnesses before the Senate panel here. The two that stand out for me are EchoStar's Carl Vogel who says he'll match the DirecTV deal if EchoStar also gets a stake in the Baseball Channel. Even more interesting is Stephen F. Ross, law professor, who attacks the whole idea of horizontal markets for baseball broadcasts. That is, teams get exclusivity in a particular region. Ross wants to see that eliminated, so then systems can compete for particular packages of games. I'm all for that.


Posted by David Pinto at 01:24 PM | Broadcasts | TrackBack (0)
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Heh. In Demand and Dish sure are transparent. Ifs, buts, and maybes don't get a deal done, and that's exactly what Direct did.

Posted by: Al at March 27, 2007 03:40 PM
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