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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
So your point is that you don't think the number of games available to televise has any impact on what the broadcast revenues will be? Your example that i bolded doesn't seem remotely similar to the situation of a significantly shortened season. Sure seems likely the regional TV deals would specify the number of games within a reasonable window.
Common sense tells me the networks and other rights holders would have negotiated the amount of content they were to receive but interested if you have some evidence to the contrary.
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Did the league receive less or have to pay back money already received for the cancelled games last season? Personally I haven’t seen that reported anywhere. I would assume the league would have made this a focal point of their argument to increase salary deferral/escrow if it were the case.
While I’m sure there are a number of parameters outlined in any broadcasting rights contract I don’t think a hard number of games would be included without some sort of clause to protect the league in the event they had to reduce the number of games in a season as a result in an event like this pandemic or a new CBA with a shortened/lengthened regular season since those deals aren’t always negotiated at the same time.