-SC> listening and more fans wanted to go to a game.  I think
-SC> the reason behind
-SC> pulling the plug on internet radio broadcast of MLB is a
-SC> rule about
-SC> competing organizations not broadcasting within a 50 mile
-SC> radius of any
-SC> team's ballpark.  (or something like that).
 
Yeah, but if you live up here in New England - you can get the New
York (of course, Detroit, Cincinnati, and Atlanta at night) games
on radio as their 50Kw stations reach here, even in the daytime.
 
Also, I think that some overlap territory is shared -- for instance
southeastern Connecticut.  Is it Mets/Yankees territory, or is it
Red Sox territory?  Same with northern Vermont ... is it Expos land
or Red Sox land?
 
Before satellites, Internet, etc., the American Forces Radio Network
used to broadcast a lot of stuff on shortwave -- even things like
the Ali-Foreman fight, which had no live radio coverage intended for
this country.  I think that's been cut back now...but I remember 
when there was a critical NBA playoff game between the Golden State
Warriors and the Phoenix Suns (1976) - the winner of the game would
play the Celtics.  No TV coverage here in the Boston area, no regular
broadcast radio, no cable for that then.  Our local paper was amazed
that I delivered the result to them before it came through on the 
wire service.....
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