Please, everyone--write a letter to the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour and express your disapproval of Indian Wells television "coverage." As I and others have written, FSN is a loosely connected series of regional networks. If you get FSN West or North, you get to see a lot of the Pacific Life Open. If you get some of the other FSNs, like the one I get, you get to see almost nothing.
In the old days, you would have as much luck getting an answer back from the Sony Ericsson WTA tour as you would getting an answer back from Santa Claus, but these days, you can actually get a reply--if you are willing to wait several weeks. They need to hear from hundreds of us (so does the ATP) about this so that it will not happen again.
Here's something with a little about what went on with the FSN deal:
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Thanks for the link, Todd. I figured basketball had a lot to do with it; it didn't occur to me about CBS getting all the ad dollars, though. Fair enough--but this FSN nonsense has to stop.
ReplyDeleteSince it's just a renewable one-year deal, maybe they'll come to a mutual decision to part ways next year.
ReplyDeleteI hope so. But I think we all need to make a lot of noise.
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