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Article: Turner's Big Baseball Play; TBS to Air LCS Series Games in Seven-Year Agreement.(TV Currents)(Turner Broadcasting System Inc.)(Major League Baseball's League Championship Series)(Brief article)
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- TelevisionWeek
- Article date:
- October 23, 2006
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Byline: Jon Lafayette
Turner Broadcasting has reached a seven-year agreement to televise one of Major League Baseball's League Championship Series beginning in 2007.
TBS will have the National League Championship in odd-numbered years and the American League Championship in even-numbered years. Fox will carry the other series each year.
Turner is paying between $40 million and $45 million a year for the rights, a person familiar with the matter said.
In July, the league struck new long-term broadcast deals with Fox, ESPN and Turner (TelevisionWeek, July 17). Turner added exclusive coverage of baseball's first-round division series ...