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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
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.
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Ironically, the TV deals may be more likely to protect the broadcasters from having to show more games. Most all of the local and national American regular season games cost more to produce than they bring in ad revenue.