On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 11:02 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 11:23 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The Arena Football League has reached an agreement with ESPN to broadcast >> its games for the rest of the season. >> The remaining regular-season games will be made available on ESPN3 and >> ArenaBowl XXXII will be on ESPN2. ESPN3 is available via WatchESPN and the >> ESPN App. >> The Arena Football League season began last week. Six teams will play 12 >> regular-season games over 13 weeks. The top four advance to the playoffs. >> Commissioner Randall Boe said in a statement Friday he thinks the >> agreement with ESPN will help the league grow. >> > > The Arena Football League maxed out with 19 teams in 2007. Last year they > had 4 teams and this year they have 6. I get that ESPN overpaid for major > sports and they may be looking for cheap minor sports to fill time. But > unless there's some kind of business miracle this is a league on its way to > extinction. > This is also the league that had a team win two regular season games last year and then win its championship, because all four teams made the playoffs. Calling this a broadcast deal is a bit of a misnomer. Other than the ArenaBowl, the games are all streaming-only, which makes this sound to me like a way to try to drum up subscribers for ESPN+. All sorts of minor sports stream on that platform. John -- John Edwards "You can insure against the weather, but you can't insure against incompetence, can you?" - Phil Tufnell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
