Portland has the largest TV market in the US without a major league team. Seattle would fight it though.
Not sure. I watch Mariners games here and there (favorite AL team), and they don't put that much emphasis on their Oregon/PDX footprint. They specifically have a segment where they give shoutouts to their fans and provide the name and hometown of some fan who gave them a Twitter mention, and it feels like they acknowledge their fans in Alaska just as much if not more than the Oregon folks. Maybe it's because their ownership is seeing the writing on the wall in terms of the inevitability of a Portland team.
In any event, it feels very different from when I grew up watching the AngelOs on HTS and they did a lot of promotion in the DC area.
