The proof is all over the faces of American television executives. Essentially, sports television is about a network acquiring rights to a property. That's the egg.
Advertisers ante up a lot of money, tons of people tune in and there's a big profit.
It leads to more eggs and more chickens. When the World Series, which used to be the biggest TV attraction in U.S. sports, can't even win its own time slot, there is big trouble ahead. World Series games on Fox started too late, ended too early in the morning and ran too long. Game 3 Tuesday night, the one beaten by Frasier, drew 12.4 million out of 102 million American homes with televisions. Frasier got 18.9 million.