That explains it. I've never been a baseball or hockey fan at all, and when I was a pro BB fan, I was a Jordan/Bulls fan. Perhaps I watched some Bulls/Knicks games on MSG way back when, but I can't recall it.
I can certainly understand the frustration for fans of those teams, though. To me, the solution is to eliminate everything that stands in the way of all out competition between service providers. Guessing that's an uphill battle with a precipitous slope. Consumers would need some way to combat the service provider lobbies, but I can't imagine what that would be - the money is all with the service providers.