Fox 6 Milwaukee not Showing Bears Late Game. Whose fault?

[klwillis45]

http://www.the506.com/nflmaps/

[vegasvic]

It should be so much simpler.  Just give each market 2 Fox and 2 CBS games each Sunday.  Local stations could continue to lobby for which games they want in their market (as 58 did with Jets games last season).   To a certain extent they are trying to protect the value of Sunday Ticket for DTV but these "rules" existed before there was a Sunday Ticket.

[Gilbert]

You have to remember something else...

Milwaukee is considered to have a football team. Of course, since the Pack stopped playing here in 1994, that's not true literally, but the NFL "grandfathered" them as a home market with a football team. Thus, whenever the Packers play on ESPN Monday Night Football, or Thursday night football, the game is offered (and due to the demand, always picked up by) a TV station in the market to simulcast it. I think there might be one other team like that, but I'm not sure. There was a push, some time ago, to have Madison, WI also be a city with an NFL football team by broadcast rights standards, like Milwaukee, so that they would always see the Packers play...but the NFL rejected it.

[brewguru]

Exactly!  It's not the stations, it's the NFL!  They are money hungry, and could care less about the fans or anyone else.  I don't watch any football games now.  Too bad I am a very small minority.  The NFL will never change since they know what a big hook they have in everyone's mouth.

You can rip a business for trying to make money (um, that's what they're in business for) but not airing a Bears game in Milwaukee is hardly cause for concern.

Actually, by the local affiliate showing a crappy Bears game once was what prompted me to buy the Sunday Ticket in the first place. 10 years ago. The 11-1 Rams were playing the 10-2 Titans, but Milwaukee got a Bears-Lions game instead (with those two teams combining for something like 5 wins).

This is the Packers home market and if they never showed another Bears game here, I would be happy.

[Talos4]

Exactly!  It's not the stations, it's the NFL!  They are money hungry, and could care less about the fans or anyone else.  I don't watch any football games now.  Too bad I am a very small minority.  The NFL will never change since they know what a big hook they have in everyone's mouth.

For the life of me, I can never figure out this kind of statement.

IF the NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR don't care about the fans, where do you think the money to keep them going is going to come from?  

So what if they makes lots of money, isn't that the idea?

I have no problem with someone saying they're not going to get my money, but to say they don't care about the fans is not correct.

It's all about the fans. After all it's the fans money they want! Keep them happy one way or another.