Update: Following up on our reports from earlier this month that STO was for sale, Waiting For Next Year now reports that their sources say SportsTime Ohio will soon be sold to either Fox Sports Ohio or Time Warner Cable. A little more detail on the reasoning for STO hitting the open market: despite strong Tribe ratings, the Indians alone aren’t enough to sustain the network. Shocking. Here we thought you could run a network on the backs of Bruce Drennan and Chuck Galeti and roll around in the bathtub of cash that follows. Guess we were wrong.
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Earlier this month, we reported that a source had told Scene that SportsTime Ohio, the Indians’ television network, was up for sale.
This article appears in Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2011.
I know I really like “Chuck’s Last Call” after most Tribe games! Especially if the alternative is that waste of space, Greg Brinda!!! Brinda HAS to go…NOW!!!!!!!!!!!