No More FSN Florida Games This season

[TheGlyde]

[AdamTheGreek]

Oyedeji being a god in China puts a smile on my face.

[Howard Mass]

I love it Glyde.

[lovehoops01]

The better the Magic do in the second season, the more pressure there will be to resolve this deal.

My problem: where has David Stern been in this fiasco? It's his job to mediate all things financial. And these black-mark issues are why he's Mr. Commissioner.

Unfortunately, I don't think so because this is part of a bigger business war in the states that is pitting the cable companies against the sports event providers. We are not the only ones affected, and both sides have dug in on a national corporate level. The cable companies think the sports event providers want unfair payments for their products and are accustomed to making huge profits. The increase in the number of ESPN channels (there are at least 5 now) has eaten up most of the space on their systems that cable wanted to dedicate to sports. A lot of the event providers are fractionalizing into tiny groups so that in college sports we have things like The Big Ten Network so there seem to be an unending number of different sports channels. The sports event providers have a way (satellite) to get their product out to people regardless of whether cable companies want to pay for their product or not.

Direct TV is a partner of the NBA, too. So David Stern probably would be fine with it if all NBA fans switched to satellite rather than cable. That might have had something to do with why it took us so long to find out if League Pass even was going to be available on cable this year. Maybe Stern was hoping this would help push the process along with Bright House. In the end, it might turn out that satellite will be the system for sports fans, and people who want a generalized, mixed bag of cheaper products (for the cable system) will go with cable.