How Baseball Moved Its 24-Hour Channel Into Scoring Position
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Major League Baseball plotted for two decades to create a 24-hour channel, and last month it got its way after months of tortuous negotiations.
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Enhanced Gameday is the application available on Major League Baseballâs Web site that reports the trajectory of every pitch thrown in a game in real time.
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Former Sox infielder John Valentin has added his voice and insight to baseball analysis, joining the Fox Sports New England crew for its postgame show after each Red Sox playoff game.
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Boston's 11-9 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday night got the highest TV rating for the first game of the World Series since 1999.
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Major League Baseball has approved  the creation of a national cable television channel devoted to  America's favorite pastime, but regular-season games may be  confined to the dugouts for the network's first year, a top  league official said on Friday.
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Boston&#39;s victory over St. Louis in Game 1 of the World Series last night attracted the best television ratings for the opener of Major League Baseball&#39;s championship round since 1999.
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The search giants have tried localizing, but with fair success. Here&#39;s a model that could work better. A new book shows how a change of ownership brought new life to the Boston Red Sox franchise.
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Baseball's lively League Championship Series kept Fox atop the primetime standings on Monday.
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The Sporting News - Most players sympathized with the Yankees and Red Sox for having to play that five-games-in-four-days series. No way MLB should have allowed TV to dictate that kind of schedule: day-night doubleheader on Friday, day game Saturday, night game Sunday, day game Monday, followed by trips to the West Coast with games there on Tuesday. Wow. No one should have to do that, not even the Evil Empire.
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By Gary Levin  September. January. March.    Until recently, TV networks rolled out their arsenals like clockwork.
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XM Satellite Radio disclosed an 11-year, $650 million deal with Major League Baseball yesterday, the latest move in a costly race with rival Sirius Satellite Radio , which this month signed a five-year, $500 million deal with shock jock Howard Stern.
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Some television networks are racing to develop eye-catching score boxes. Fox, for example, now has fire coming out of its baseball scores.
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Major League Baseball said on Thursday it reached a deal with satellite television provider DirecTV Group Inc. to air its out-of-market package of games, known as "Extra Innings", for the next seven years.
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Time Warner Cable, Comcast Corp., and the New York Mets agreed to create a 24-hour regional sports television network for the team.
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NEW YORK  - When ESPN signed on 25  years ago Tuesday, "SportsCenter" was the first thing viewers  saw.
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After spending a day with the old keyword page, and getting bored with it, I came up with a new way to look at news, something I've not tried before, that might be fun and/or useful http://nytimesriver.com/keywords.html  Since it's likely to change again soon, here's a screen shot. How it works. Every hour, as usual, it does the nytimesriver scan. Every story is linked to in the database undern all the keywords it references. Then the report, in HTML, is prepared, with the keywords in the left column, and links to all the stories in the right colum. The list is sorted by number of references, the keywords with the most references appear at the top of the list.  So today, baseball is the top item, with 15 references. The teams, the Cleveland Indians and Colorado Rockies, rank high. For some reason (heh) the Boston Red Sox don't appear, even though they're still in it, and the Yankees, even though they've been eliminated (yay!) are near the top at position 10.  It's another leaderboard! (Oh shit.) The stories age, and are removed after 24 hours. After all this is news, not olds.  If you have comments, post them under the screen shot, linked above. PS: Note that since the list just started up today, the initial stories, even though some are already 24 hours old, will remain in the queue until tomorrow morning at this time. So the list will be artificially fat today, it'll thin down tomorrow.
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XM Satellite Radio lands 11-year pact to broadcast all major league games starting next season. NEW YORK  - XM Satellite Radio announced a $650 million deal Wednesday with Major League Baseball to broadcast games for 11 years.