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Giants shut out Oakland in media revenue game. (In The News).(media revenue for California Major League Baseball teams)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

San Francisco Business Times

| December 21, 2001 | Leuty, Ron; King, Bill | COPYRIGHT 1987 San Francisco Business Times, Inc. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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. …

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