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echo: ml_baseball
to: TOM YOUNG
from: TERRY MAY
date: 1996-12-15 11:48:00
subject: Re: TBS losing Braves?

On 14 Dec 96, Mark Wohlers K'd TOM YOUNG for saying:
 TM>> Time Warner's TBS will likely lose its right to broadcast Atlanta
 TM>> Brave games, reports Variety.  This potentially devastating news for
 TM>> TBS comes fro Dave Almsted, senior VP of acquisition rights for the Fox
 TM>> Sports Networks, w says ESPN and Fox's FX, both of which share an
 TM>> exclusive national cable pack of Major League Baseball games, are
 TM>> negotiating a dramatic phase-out of Brav games on TBS.
 TY> 
 TY> Wouldn't this also mean the end of Cubs/White Sox games on WGN and
 TY> Mets games on WOR?  And Yankee's games on MSG?
You would think so.  I'm sure more will come out later.  It would be just 
like MLB to get rid of some of their best marketing tools.
... Atlanta Braves - Five straight division titles!
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