They talked about starting a regional network, and the contract offer from FSN suddenly became much better. The Ms didn't want to go through the hassle of setting up said network.
It's not like Altitude in Colorado, where Kroenke owns the Pepsi Center, the Avs, the Nuggets and the Mammoth, so he just shows all his own teams on his own network. They'd have to get other, non-Ms programming in there and get it added to cable packages and satellite TV.
So they made the threat, Fox upped their offer, and the Ms took it.
This time around I would HOPE that they're looking at the boat-loads of money being made by the Angels and Rangers and figure out how much to hold the network hostage for, if they don't in fact start their own.
But they'd better start winning and attracting ratings again first. The next few years are gonna be crucial in those hostage negotiations, otherwise they might be better off not opting out and coming back with the hammer down in 2020. We'll see.
~G
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