Yeah, but with the lions not being on tv, that's an nfl rule, not a detroit rule. The only people who enforce the blackhawks black out are the hawks themeselves.
Every once in awhile when the bears are really really bad (kind of like this season, although it wasn't an issue this year) the bears will threaten the fans with "buy tickets or the game will be blacked out by nfl rules."
Guess what. It never happens. Here's why.
The local fox station (the bears being an nfc team means that 6 out of their 8 home games are on fox.) Makes huge money on the commercials that they sell during bears games because Chicago is a HUGE market and the bears get great ratings. If the game isn't on they lose that revenue so if there's 1000 seats left that haven't been sold, they'll eat the 40,000-45,000$ that it costs to buy up those seats themselves. They still end up making money on the deal.
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