According to Miller, Rowe, McKay, and Lawrence's Analysis of the Media

According to Miller, Rowe, McKay, and Lawrence's analysis of the media and professional sports in North America, Germany, and Great Britain:

A) many of the major professional sports in these countries inundated or saturated their domestic media markets in the 1990s.
B) powerful corporate media investors such as Rupert Murdoch made bids for television broadcast rights that resulted in a major trend of declining television rights fees for major North American and European professional sports in the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries.
C) TV ratings for the NFL, Major League Baseball, NASCAR, and the NHL have consistently and dramatically increased over the past decade.
D) major professional sports in North America, Germany, and Great Britain substantially increased media telecasts within their countries and avoided overseas broadcasts to deal with a media saturation problem.