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The End: Media Money, the Courts, and Fan Misperception

Few people reading this will remember college football from the 1960s and 1970s. Let us call it BC, Before Cable. In those days, unless you had a local, usually UHF (What’s that you say? Channel 41 out of Norfolk, with the morning “Bungles the Clown” show just before hitting the bricks for school.), might carry a local broadcast of a game. It was usually school in a conference with enough money to pay for an occasional broadcast feed to local stations. Some weekends there’d be a UVA game or maybe North Carolina, but just one game, and always from the regional conference.