Subj : Baseball to charge for Internet broadcasts
To   : Joe Siegler
From : Ed Grinnell
Date : Wed Apr 11 2001 01:03 pm

Joe Siegler gave up a long homer to Otis Nixon and said:

 JS> Pardon?  It's $9.95 for all the teams' feeds for the season.  It's
 JS> audio via Real Player.  It's NOT video.  It's been available since
 JS> Apr 9th.

I quote MSNBC (Among others):

       BEGINNING APRIL 1, the start of the 2001 season, the baseball league 
will offer live audio broadcasts of all major league games exclusively through 
RealNetworks' RealAudio software with enhanced features like updated
game statistics.

       Starting May 1, the league and RealNetworks plan to offer customized 
video highlights of each game, with video archives of every pitch from every 
game.

                                 ****

The video is not real time (and I am told, is a separate service/fee).

Finally, Lisa Napoli had this to say:

       Me, I'm applying for a job as a stringer for Virage and Major League 
Baseball, the person who sits in the stands and logs the time of every pitch. 
Bowman says it pays $50 a game, and if I can make friends with the hot dog 
vendor, well, what a great way to spend the summer. That way it doesn't matter 
if this grand digital experiment doesn't work.


--- TrekEd 1.00
 * Origin: Marge Schott, the cure for Baseball Fever (1:170/1701)

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