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2005 A's TV Schedule

The A's have announced their 2005 TV schedule, and while some teams (Boston, San Francisco) are televising all of their games, and others are coming damn close (The The Angels Angels are going to go with 158 this year), the A's will have 130 telecasts spread out over six channels.

I counted up using the monthly calendar on the official A's site and came up with the following figures:

Fox Sports Net: 64
KICU: 49
Fox Sports Net Plus: 11
Fox (KTVU): 3
ESPN: 2
ESPN2: 1

Of the 32 games that aren't being televised, many of them are weekday afternoon games. No series of three or more games is being completely skipped, although the first two-game series in Texas in April isn't going to be on TV.

I called DirecTV and they tell me that MLB is continuing it's policy of blacking out opposing telecasts of A's games in the Extra Inning package even if the A's aren't going to telecast the game themself.