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*NoCasl_ramfan* · #1 (**permalink**) -17-07-2008

NFL cancels Rams’ preseason TV in L.A.

By JOHN OURAND
Staff writer

Published July 14, 2008 : Page 34
For the first time in more than a decade, the St. Louis Rams will not be allowed to broadcast their preseason games into the Los Angeles market that housed the team from 1946 to 1994. The Rams have made a point to broadcast preseason games in their old home …

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*YodaRam* · #2 (**permalink**) -17-07-2008

Will they be able to broadcast it in Cleveland?

RAM ON!

*moklerman* · #3 (**permalink**) -17-07-2008

Were they in Cleveland for 50 years? Did they even have t.v. when the Rams were in Cleveland?

*r8rh8rmike* · #4 (**permalink**) -17-07-2008

This kinda sucks because all the Rams preseason games were shown live in LA. Politics, politics, politics. Sounds like the Faiders still get to be broadcast in LA, even though they're almost 400 MILES AWAY! What total BS. All is not lost though, the NFL Network will re-air all the games multiple times and the game against the Chargers may be shown live in LA.

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By JOHN OURAND
Staff writer

Published July 14, 2008 : Page 34
For the first time in more than a decade, the St. Louis Rams will not be allowed to broadcast their preseason games into the Los Angeles market that housed the team from 1946 to 1994.

The Rams have made a point to broadcast preseason games in their old home city. In March, the NFL’s broadcast committee, headed by Patriots owner Robert Kraft, voted unanimously to stop teams such as the Rams from broadcasting games in faraway markets.

The Rams have broadcast preseason games in the Los Angeles market since 1995, their first season in St. Louis. But the broadcast committee decided to enforce a ruling that ensured that teams would not broadcast preseason games beyond their secondary market.

“This policy allows teams to maximize local marketing and ticket sales efforts, while also protecting the interests of other clubs and network TV partners,” said NFL spokesman Dan Masonson.

The move helps out the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders, both of whom consider Los Angeles a “contiguous” market.

The move also helps the league’s network partners, CBS, ESPN, Fox and NBC, by removing competition in the country’s second-largest market. This year, the four networks, plus NFL Network, will telecast 13 live preseason games nationally. Six of those games will be competing against local telecasts in at least one of the NFL’s other 30 markets.

“We don’t want those games competing against each other,” Masonson said.

*YodaRam* · #5 (**permalink**) -17-07-2008

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Originally Posted by moklerman

Were they in Cleveland for 50 years? Did they even have t.v. when the Rams were in Cleveland?

1. No.
2. Yes.The rich had t.v. The poor had to huddle in front of the big screen outside of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try."

*NoCasl_ramfan* · #6 (**permalink**) -17-07-2008

Thanks for the full read.

*RAMarkable* · #7 (**permalink**) -18-07-2008

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Originally Posted by YodaRam

The poor had to huddle in front of the big screen outside of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

You're kidding, right? The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame wasn't even built yet when the Rams were still in Cleveland.

WHAT SAY YE?

*Dr. RAM* · #8 (**permalink**) -18-07-2008

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Originally Posted by RAMarkable

You're kidding, right? The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame wasn't even built yet when the Rams were still in Cleveland.

WHAT SAY YE?

i am new here but i think he is kidding? right?

*ramsanddodgers* · #9 (**permalink**) -18-07-2008

If L.A. is not a "secondary market" for the Rams, pray tell what is?

*r8rh8rmike* · #10 (**permalink**) -18-07-2008

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Originally Posted by ramsanddodgers

If L.A. is not a "secondary market" for the Rams, pray tell what is?

I was wondering the same thing.

*RAMarkable* · #11 (**permalink**) -18-07-2008

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Originally Posted by Dr. RAM

i am new here but i think he is kidding? right?

One would certainly hope so. Hey Doc, ya'll live in Texas with YodaRam, why don't you just mosey on over and ask him?

WHAT SAY YE?

*MoonJoe* · #12 (**permalink**) -18-07-2008

Mike,

Have you ever sat through one of those Raidahs pre-season broadcasts? OMG they are horrible!!! I am not sure who the announcer is, but his "man"/"team" love of the Raidahs is so sickening, I want to hurl!!!

Ewwwww!!!

*r8rh8rmike* · #13 (**permalink**) -18-07-2008

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Originally Posted by MoonJoe

Mike,

Have you ever sat through one of those Raidahs pre-season broadcasts? OMG they are horrible!!! I am not sure who the announcer is, but his "man"/"team" love of the Raidahs is so sickening, I want to hurl!!!

Ewwwww!!!

It is painful to listen to Joe. If the announcer isn't bad enough, there's also boring homers Jim Plunket and George Atkinson who always maintain the usual Faider myopic attitude that the Super Bowl is just around the corner.

I'd still like to know why the Faiders get the okay to air games in LA but the Rams don't. The league and owners always seem to be fueding with Al Davis, yet they bend over and let him claim LA as a "contiguous" market.

*NoCasl_ramfan* · #14 (**permalink**) -18-07-2008

His name is Grant Napier he does Sac Kings games and he SUCKS

*MoonJoe* · #15 (**permalink**) -18-07-2008

I am curios too Mike on how were going to get stuck with the Raiders again and no Rams. I wonder if it has anything to do with impending stadiums or moves? There was talk that the Chargers may take their show back up here some day. Also it is accepted that the league wont expand so if LA were to get a team again it would be someone else's, it all may be connected in the big picture.