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In 1980, 22 teams (all but the Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros, New York Mets, and St. Louis Cardinals) took part in a one-year cable deal with UA-Columbia.The deal involved the airing of a Thursday night Game of the Week in markets at least 50 miles (80 km) from a major league park.
In 1982, Major League Baseball recognized a problem with this due to the emergence of cable superstations such as WTBS in Atlanta and WGN-TV in Chicago. When TBS tried to petition for the right to do a "local" Braves broadcast of the 1982 NLCS , Major League Baseball got a Philadelphia federal court to ban them on the grounds that as a cable ...
In 1979, the start of ABC's Monday Night Baseball coverage was moved back to June, due to poor ratings during the May sweeps period. In place of April and May prime time games, ABC began airing Sunday Afternoon Baseball games in September. [91] The network also aired one Friday night game (Yankees at Angels) on July 13 of that year.
The MLB on Fox pre- and post-game broadcast set at Progressive Field in Cleveland during its coverage of the 2016 World Series. Major League Baseball (MLB) has been broadcast on American television since the 1950s, with initial broadcasts on the experimental station W2XBS, the predecessor of the modern WNBC in New York City.
WGN-TV regained broadcast rights for the White Sox in 1973, and entered into a contractual agreement with then-competing independent WSNS-TV (channel 44, now a Telemundo owned-and-operated station) to have that station carry select games, an arrangement that lasted through the 1980 season. WGN-TV became the exclusive television broadcaster of ...
ABC then televised MLB games from 1976 to 1989, airing Monday Night Baseball, Thursday Night Baseball, and Sunday Afternoon Baseball in various years during that period. MLB games aired on ABC again in 1994 and 1995 as part of The Baseball Network , the short-lived time-brokered package of broadcasts produced by Major League Baseball and split ...
USA's coverage became a casualty of the new $1.2 billion TV contract [28] between Major League Baseball, ABC and NBC beginning in 1984 and lasting through 1989. One of the provisions to the new deal was that local telecasts opposite network games had to be eliminated.
During the late 1980s, McPherrin delivered in-game updates during ABC's Monday Night Baseball [158] [159] and Thursday Night Baseball broadcasts. Game 6 of the 1986 NLCS turned out to be the final Major League Baseball game that Keith Jackson would broadcast. [ 160 ]