RE: How does Channel 5

["J.P. Kirby - v5mx2" <v5mx2@unb.ca>]

>===== Original Message From "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.
>

Correct. It doesn't always have to be ABC either - I recall if they involve 
the Giants and/or Jets, the games air (or at least used to air) on WPIX. And I 
remember a few weeks ago, when the Kansas City Chiefs were in a Thursday Night 
ESPN game, many Survivor fans in K.C. were upset because the CBS affiliate 
there was bound to showing the game.

JPK, from New Brunswick, Canada, where if you have cable, they're still 
showing 15 of 16 Patriots games this year :)