Re: How does Channel 5

["Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>]

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From: <Patriotsrule417@prodigy.net>
To: "Boston-Radio-Interest" <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 7:26 PM
Subject: How does Channel 5


> get the Patriots game on their station tonight? Isn't it being broadcast
on
> ESPN? And wouldn't it be on Ch. 40 out here too??

I seem to remember reading that the NFL's contract with ESPN allows ESPN
games to be broadcast on local television in the home markets of the team's
involved.  If my memory is correct, that would allow the game to be
broadcast in Boston, but not Springfield.  In Maine, the game is only
available on ESPN.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine