• October 11, 2010

Sports Fans Coalition today urged News Corporation's Fox to lift its current blackouts of regional sports networks across the nation and end its threat to extend the blackout to Fox broadcast stations, depriving viewers of the NFL and World Series. The move is part of a contract dispute. Sports Fans Coalition is a nonprofit that wants to give sports fans a voice on issues like media blackouts, college football playoffs, stadium construction and high ticket prices. Fox has already removed its regional sports networks from a major pay TV provider in Florida, Texas, Arizona, Texas, Ohio, Tennessee and Los Angeles. It may do the same with the Fox broadcast network in cities that include New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Minneapolis. Many of these cities have teams in the MLB playoffs.