[backtothestreets]

Someday local broadcasters should turn the tables on professional sports and start charging them to air the scores and highlights content they carry in the news. Face it, professional sports is entertainment. It is the only entertainment industry given free air time regularly and promotes the professional sports. If the professional sports won't pay, yank it. As things are now the reporting of professional sports in local news broadcasts are essentially free commercials.

[Will_Zurmacht]

it seems to me that if only two networks teamed up, they could create their own league...and no, i'm not talking XFL.

If the NFL tries to go too far, some suits might just jump at the chance to own and operate their own league. Just off the top of my head,you could create a North American league with the 9 CFL teams and 20 US teams, and 1 from Mexico.

It'll seem like scabs for a while, but pretty soon, without the ad revenue, there is no NFL. We'll all just watch the NAFL for free..

[Getready]

It's kinda a circular backslapping event. The "news" tell
you how great the sport is, they get you interested, you
watch it on their channel, and their ratings go up..so the
media charge more to their advertisers.
Basically, the media is using your inquisitive viewing habits
to make more money for themselves.
It is better to go out an do a sport, rather than watch it,
better for your heart, attitude, and weight!