Teams are also able to play (and televise locally) makeup games in the same window.Īll of the Contiguous United States, except for some small, remote, isolated patches, are within at least one team's blackout territory. teams will play at 1:00 Eastern or 7:00 local time on Saturdays).
Otherwise, teams avoid scheduling home games within the broadcast windows of the exclusive network broadcasts (i.e. The Braves and the Texas Rangers (and the Miami Marlins before they moved into their retractable roof stadium, Marlins Park) have traditionally been allowed to play (and televise locally) Sunday night home games during the summer to avoid the extreme heat often found in their home markets. This results in higher ratings for the national broadcaster by pulling baseball fans away from watching their own team. The reasoning is that since people will not be able to watch their favorite team, they may be willing to settle for some baseball, even if it involves teams they are not as excited about. This, at least theoretically, is to make people watch the out-of-market game on ESPN or Fox. Broadcasters cannot show games of in-market teams, regardless of whether the game is home or away, if the game of the local team has a certain start time (usually there are no other games scheduled at these times).
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In these cases above they are true doubleheaders with only one attendance number.This article needs additional citations for verification. *In recent years most cases of doubleheaders are split/day-night doubleheaders which means they have two gates/separate attendance figures.