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Originally Posted by mlyons
Ratings aren't down, though. Sure, the nationally televised games have been down (having as much to do with awful broadcasters and matchups as anything else), but those make up a tiny percentage of the overall television pie. It's the local viewership on the regional networks that matter, and those have been doing just fine over the last couple of decades -- strong enough that whole stations have formed based on local baseball anchoring their schedules. YES was just the first of these; now almost every team has their own station or has become the major programming point for a regional sports station. Even those poor Cleveland Indians own their own station.
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Yes, I reckon that is true. There also is other stuff like MLB.TV and the Gameday Audio that probably doesn't count either.