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Local media revenue figures from Major League Baseball reveal diverging fates for the Bay Area's two teams.
The San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's share the nation's fifth-largest television market, but the Giants benefit significantly more than the A's, according to the figures released during Congressional committee hearings earlier this month. The Giants reported $17.2 million in media revenue in 2001; the A's had $9.5 million.
Ratings tell the story. Giants games in 2001 attracted an average 143,471 households a game over the air and 94,837 a game on cable -- carried in large part by Barry Bonds' pursuit of baseball's single-season home run record. …