...this afternoon, WLAX/25 in La Crosse and WEUX/48 in Chippewa Falls have been running a crawl across the screen apologising to its viewers for not being able to carry the Vikings-Lions game. Interesting, since the Packers are the historically dominant team in fan attention throughout most of Wisconsin (the exceptions being the counties along the border with Illinois, which has progressively become Bears territory over the last dozen years or so, and the St. Croix Valley, which is part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul ADI, thus Vikings territory). Significantly, the Fox station in Rochester (two counties west of La Crosse), KXLT/47, is co-owned with the NBC affiliate there, KTTC/10 (and KTTC's La Crosse translator, W67CH/67), and the ABC affiliates in La Crosse, WXOW/19, and Eau Claire, WQOW/18. (As well as the area CW 100+ cable channels in Rochester, La Crosse and Eau Claire, for that matter.) Thus, I suspect KXLT could exert a bit more power with Fox than WLAX/WEUX can. But WLAX/WEUX are claiming *NFL* restrictions, not Fox. Any similar situations to this around the country this Sunday?...