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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
A single series going beyond four games doesn't affect the number of nationally televised games.
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I imagine it would. If the finals are nationally televised there is clearly going to be more games televised in a 7 game series versus a 4 game sweep.
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But seems like going from 82 games to 56 or 52 would.
And it wouldn't just be the impact to nationally televised games, would it?
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I was just using NBC as an example, it could definitely impact every tv deal but I’m not sure if their tv deals are based on rights for a specific time period/season or on a specific number of games. Considering individual teams don’t know how many games will be nationally or regionally broadcast every season I think it’s unlikely that regional tv deals are based on a specific numbers of games as those numbers would change every season.
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I thought it was established that the biggest economic reason for the playoff bubble was to fulfill programming requirements for the TV contracts.
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Having a playoffs was probably the biggest issue there. It’s not as if they had to play the canceled regular season games.