The So-Called East Coast Bias

it's right, I'm just saying that it appears that is what they do. Thinking about though, ESPN does seem to give more equal coverage to the west coast teams in college football and in pro and college basketball. Also the NFL , but since all games are done(or almost done) by the time Sportscenter comes on, they can give coverage to the best games of the day. It does seem that it is only for baseball, where there is a leaning to the east coast.

After all, they disrespected Seattle.

reading on this site about the large number of Red Sox fans that were at the games in Anaheim when the Red Sox came to town, and I'm sure that there will be a large contingent of Yankee fans at the next three games. Maybe that plays a part in how ESPN and others cover the baseball season.

ASSUMPTION: Payroll is proportionate to fan base.

I took total payroll of east coast, central and west coast teams over 80M. Here's how it breaks out:

45% east coast
30% central
25% west coast

So that means that east coast "pays" espn almost twice what west coast "pays"

Previous post:

That's 27 hits for yankes bosox and 14 hits for Angels Ms. Roughly double.

The raw numbers:
1. NY Yankees 195,229,045
2. Boston 143,123,714
3. NY Mets 116,115,819
10. Baltimore 95,107,808
13. Atlanta 89,492,685
14. Philadelphia 89,368,213

12. St. Louis 90,286,823
15. Houston 87,759,500
4. Chicago Sox 109,290,167
8. Chicago Cubs 99,936,999
9. Detroit 95,180,369

5. LA Angels 109,251,333
6. LA Dodgers 108,704,524
7. Seattle 106,516,833
11. San Francisco 90,469,056

Orginally posted here.

It is THE JOB of any media enterprise and EVERY media employee to CREATE and GROW an audience. If you cannot grab and grow audience share, you are replaced. It is the law of the land. It is NOT the job for the media to simply pick the low-hanging fruit and feed back what is easy programming to the easiest audience available - the base.

So what do they actually do? They take the pre-existing audience interest and feed it back to the pre-existing audience, using the excuse of "giving the audience what it wants". That is a bullshit cop-out. Yeah, give the audience YOU HAVE what it wants, but bust your ass to GROW YOUR AUDIENCE BY GIVING THOSE WHO ARE NOT CURRENTLY YOUR AUDIENCE A REASON TO BECOME YOUR AUDIENCE.

This is not an especailly hard notion to get a grip on. Nor, fucking ESPN dipshits, is it an especially hard thing TO ACCOMPLISH. Why not, you ask? Obvious. Those bastards have their jobs because, and only because, Madison Avenue pays all of the media employers for small chunks of opportunity to get behind the wheel of the media feed and MANIPULATE THE BEHAVIOR OF THE AUDIENCE. If the media market advertising was not effective, then advertisers would go elsewhere. The fact that they go directly TO the ESPN's and FOX Sports' of the world is total and complete evidence that advertising IS effective.

And what is advertising? It is manipulating the behavior of your audience. Manipulating. The. Behavior. Of. Your. Audience.

70% of the time, each and every hour, the media midgets have total control of what content they choose to provide. And they have the exact same power to manipulate audience behavior as the advertisers who use the other 30% to reach the same audience. Therefore, do they USE that power to DO THEIR JOB and try and grow their audience share beyond what is easy and obvious? Fuck no. That is too hard.

it was inbetween the scorebords

Blame the cable companies.  Or perhaps Disney's greed for asking too much money per video

ESPN and other medias are going to have adjust sooner or later or they are going to be unable to grow and make money.

The internet and hell this blog will continue to gnaw (is that a word?)itself into the mainstream and  likely  make the ESPN's of this world not relevant.  They can continue to pander to East Coast Baseball and soon enough that will be all they have, baseball wise, while losing the market west of the Mississippi.  They will become MTV and have awesome shows like "Who is the Now", with intermittent comments by Kruk and Gammons about baseball.