Manny, for better or worse, is a big draw.

If you go to MLB and watched the archives of these games later on, they are in HD. Considering that they’ve already gone to the expense of the HD cameras, I wonder why they wouldn’t then just transmit that signal, considering they’re already an ATSC-format station now anyway.

It’s probably the commercials with the whiny chick singing “Take Me Away”.

This is ratings for local broadcasts – cable and over-the-air.

I don’t think the Dodgers have a drastically larger presence on free TV over cable.

guarantee 20% diehards for each team and then 60% of “i like both”….maybe not but i think there are a lot of so cal peeps that like both teams.

and it’s part and parcel of the problem the Angels have had with their broadcast presence. They haven’t had solid radio coverage of their territory since 2002, and even back then they were liable to be pre-empted by the Lakers. Sure, they have done what they can to correct the radio situation, but then comes the problem between FSN and Charter, a problem with which as far as I can tell the Angel FO is entirely unconcerned. The general attitude is, “Let them eat cake”, that is, DirecTV. So as an Angel fan I have to jump through hoops, and of course I do. But others will just say “Meh, blocked out for fifty greatest sports cleavages, how second-rate” and turn over to the Doyer broadcast.

Arte & Co, do a first-rate job for the fans in the park, but they need to project the same competence and concern for the fan experience with their media presentation. Until they do, they’ll be a second-rate media presence in this town.

Case in point…they were chosen by ESPN as the #1 sports franchise. That is frggin awesome!!! That’s #1 out of 122 franchises!!

I’ve been talking it up to others (especially Doyer fans…who’s franchise ranked #50!), and people look at me surprised. Most just don’t know how much better the experience is at the Big A over Dodger Stadium.

And yet, I haven’t heard more than a couple of mentions of this accomplishment on broadcasts. Why the HELL not??? They should have a TV and marketing campaign based on this accomplishment. It should receive the same level of “branding” as “Fan Strong”. I know it would take time to develop a full campaign, but in the meantime, get the braodcasters to read some of the things mentioned in the article…have some pins made for the attendants and acknowledging this achievement.

This accounts for a lot of page views. They can keep up with their team easily on blogs without having to actually watch a number of games on TV.

live out of the Angels’ market. I watch as many games as I can, but I can only see them when they play the Mariners or a nationally televised game. :( I don’t know what I’d do with out HH!

but still, you should care, because it affects the Angels’ bottom line, which in turn affects its ability to compete with the Skanks and BloSux long term.

Here an opinion of a guy who follows both. Angels fan, Dodger well-wisher.

 I’ll always be an Angel fan first becuase of guys like Chuck Finely, Discarcina, velarde, Salmon, Erstad, and Edmonds, GA. I was ecstatic when the underdog angels accomplished the impossible with glaus, salmon, kennedy, eckstein, and spiezio. I hung in there for the cecil fielder and mo vaughn experiments.

all that said, I gotta say, the Dodgers this year are charismatic as hell. They are young and talented. They arent the big names, past their prime players the Dodger had been known for getting (Green, Sheffiled, Brown, Jones). This team is very diferrent from the Dodgers that we’re so used to watching fail. Guys like Loney, Eithier, Kemp, Pierre, and Martin just have a little more likeability to the average fan than Morales, Figgans, Aybar, Abreu, Izturiz etc. Not my opinion, but its something i’ve noticed.

The reason for the Angels drop of his most likely due to the pitching struggles, and most probably the injuries to Vlad.

A bigger reason is probably because the Angeles, regardless of what they change their name to are always gonna be the anaheim angels. That being said, the LA market is alot bigger than anaheims. The only reason ratings used to be close was because the Dodgers were terrible. Now that they have the best record in baseball, even people who dont like baseball are jumping on the bandwagon.

The Manny factor: he is possibly the most charismatic player i’ve seen. He plays the game just like we all would. He plays baseball like the average person would : for Fun! you can tell manny is having a great time out there, and thats what people find so appealing. The fact that he can Hit for power, and bats above 300 is pretty darn impressive.

All that being said, I still want the angels to win. Once youre an angels fan, you never go back : )

It all went to hell when they got rid of percival lol.

if they kept percival. K-rod would never know he was great. we’d have the 8 and 9 th pretty much ours every game. Our starting pitching is better than the dodgers. and we’d have a sweet bullpen. JK but its one of those things in the back of my mind of what ifs.

For me it was sad to see GA go. He was really the last piece still there from my childhood days where i literally watched every angels game back when he had discarsina. Now Figgans and Lackey are my only guys, and they are even close to being from the “old” days for me.

plus getting destroyed by boston year after year sucks.why cant we just play the yankees, and the twins every post season. The Angels really need to position themselves to not play Boston in the playoffs.