At 11:41 PM 11/7/2002 -0500, you wrote:
At 06:38 PM 11/7/2002 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote: >Oh, and John, is it legal for the sports bar to be showing the NFL >game? Just curious -- it was mentioned that they'd gone after some bars >in the context of a talk-radio conversation about how HBO is going after >a bunch of bars that people go to to watch "The Sopranos".You better believe it. Catering to out-of-town sports fan is actually a fairly sizable niche business. And yes, the NFL charges them plenty for the public exhibition license. The only exception is a blacked-out local NFL game. JDG
You mean someone who likes out of town teams, not a person visiting from a different city right?
Let's lie and say I own a speakeasy. I would need six different out of town feeds, and two more local ones. Heck I'll be magnanimous and buy eight. That would cost me, as a private individual, about $1600. I can't imagine the bar's price is much much more. I think the bar owners get their public license from the feed provider, not the NFL.. Went looking on the direct TV site, but couldn't open the pricing schedule.
I know of a case in Reading, many years ago, the local cable was charging bars for each seat that faced a TV. The bar owners tried to band together to boycott the cable, but it didn't work, so they sued, that worked. More fun: In a bad section of town we'd go watch HBO fights. The bar owner lived across the street, he had three VCRs going. He'd wait for the fourth round to start before he would start bringing them to the bar so it was a constant fight. He had kids running back and forth when the fight started.
The place closed after the owners divorce from his wife. She caught him cheating with a waitress and broke his eye socket from 30+feet away with a shot glass. She was a college softball pitcher. Don't know if she threw over or under hand.
Kevin T.
Ah good times
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