The San Diego Chargers game Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens will not be televised locally, team officials announced Thursday.
National Football League policy dictates the game must have been sold out 72 hours before its 1:05 p.m. kickoff to avoid being blacked out in local markets, which include all signals within a 75-mile radius of the stadium and areas whose television signals reach within that 75-mile zone.
The policy affects all telecasts, including cable and satellite. More than 9,000 tickets remained unsold for the 1:05 p.m. game at Qualcomm Stadium as the Chargers have slumped to a 4-6 record with losses in five of their last six games.
- City News Service
and there lies the basis of the problem... why would the league dictate anything to the taxpayer that paid for the stadium ?
there is no reason for the professional sports industry to be subsidized by the tax payer....they can pay their athletes hundreds of thousands instead of millions and fund themselves...
if the chargers leave for l.a., which a lot of people think will happen, that means qualcomm will be torn down and the land sold or leased for development.. which in turn means the end of the san diego state aztecs as a division 1 football program..they'll have no place to play, and no hope of building a stadium of their own on campus..i think they'd have to have at least 30 to 40,000 seats to stay in division 1.. who's gonna build that, and where? doug
antonio villaragosa is trying to get a deal done before he's termed out as mayor..but he's not making any headway..it would still need a few hundred million dollars in taxpayer funds to get the deal done, and there just isn't the political will in los angeles to get that done.. i think it'll happen sooner or later.. but i'd put my money on later.. doug
Oh and by the way Mr Spanos, I wont be renewing my season tickets next year and neither will a lot of my fellow fans. I'm sure you couldn't care less though.