The bias toward media time of dominate sport teams

By Chris Terrell

I myself am a fan of some very good teams, and I also like some teams that are not all that good. So today I want to talk about the bias toward media time of dominate teams in college and professional sports. Being a Yankee’s fan living in Kentucky it would seem to be hard to watch games on television, but it really is not hard at all. Since they are such a power house in the major league there is usually at least one game a week that is showing the Yankees. Another sport team that I like that is easy to watch on television is Kentucky wildcat basketball. It does help that I live in Kentucky but their games are always being shown by someone. Another example of this is the Indianapolis Colts in the National Football League. It seems no matter where they are playing their games are always on television.
There are some teams that are not very dominating in their sport that television overlooks sometimes. Look at Kentucky football, this past weekend they were playing Tennessee. It was a SEC match up and the outcome of the game had some significance to what bowl the teams play in. It was on television but not on a main station. Instead of showing the game on basic cable it was shown on ESPN U. This made it hard for me to see the game. I ended up missing a great football game that went into overtime. Another team that I use to like to watch was the Seattle Mariners. Since they play across the country and they are not very good I do not get a chance to watch hardly any of there games. I think that networks need to realize that there are fans that live in differnt states and they are in fact bias and that they need to try to give all teams an equal amount of air time.