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The vertical rotating assembly of the turbomolecular pump is centered by two magnetic bearings located each on one side of the pump rotor and supported by ball bearings located under the rotor, one on each side of the driving motor. The length of transmission shaft portion between the rotor and the rotating part of the motor is sufficient to compensate for radial deflection of the rotor.
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United States Patent [191 Rousseau et al,
[ Nov. 13, 1973 VERTICAL TURBOMOLECULAR PUMPS Inventors: Marcel-Gustave Rousseau, Saint Denis; Robert Berthoumieux, Paris, both of France Assignee: Societe Nationale DEtude Et De Construction De Moteurs DAviation and Commissariat A LEnergie,
Atomique, Paris, l rance Filed: Mar. 25, 1971 Appl. No.: 128,073
Foreign Application Priority Data Apr. 1, 1970 France 7011572 US. Cl 417/424, 415/90, 308/10 Int. Cl. F04b 17/00, F04b 35/04, FOld l/36, F160 35/00, F16c 39/00 Field of Search 417/423, 424; 415/90; 308/10, 194
[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,402,053 1/1922 Dake 415/90 3,107,310 10/1963 Carriere et a1 308/10 X Primary Examiner-Robert M. Walker Attorney-Lane, Aitken, Dunner & Ziems [57] ABSTRACT The vertical rotating assembly of the turbomolecular pump is centered by two magnetic bearings located each on one side of the pump rotor and supported by ball bearings located under the rotor, one on each side of the driving motor. The length of transmission shaft portion between the rotor and the rotating part of the motor is sufficient to compensate for radial deflection of the rotor.
8 Claims, 3 Drawing Figures PAIENIED unv 13 ms 3; 771. 909 SHEET 3 BF 3 FIGS INVENTORS Passer awzwad/a/e'dx VERTICAL TURBOMOLECULAR PUMPS BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The invention relates to turbomolecular pumps of the type having a vertical shaft carrying a rotor rotated at high speed within a housing and formed with disks which draw residual gas from an end of the rotor and move it toward the other end of the rotor connected to a primary vacuum source.
It is one of the main difficulties in the construction of turbomolecular pumps that the rotor (rotating at speeds in the 10,000 rpm range) should be supported andaccurately centered. The problem is still rendered more difficult by, the requirement that contamination of the vacuum by lubricant vapors should be avoided.
In the past, several attempts were made to. solve the problem one of them involves the use of gas bearings but the rate of flow across gas bearings adapted to operate correctly is so high that it has an adverse effect on the performances of the pump. Another solution described in French Pat. No. l 475 765 filed Jan. 31, 1966 makes use of electromagnetic bearings for supporting the rotor and centering it. The regulation of such a system requires an elaborate servo loop.
SUMMARY It is an object of the invention to provide a vertical axis turbomolecular pump in which the rotor supporting and centering mechanism is improved with respect to the prior art mechanism particularly in that it combines centering accuracy and. simplicity in design. It is a more particular object of the invention to provide a pump in which the rotor is centered by a part of magnetic bearings located one on each side of the rotor, while the weight of the complete rotating assembly of the pump is taken by machanical bearing means located under the rotor.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 2 is a detail view on an enlarged scale show-.
ing the upper magnetic half-bearing of the pump of FIG. 1
- FIG. 3 is a view on an enlarged scale showing the lower portion of a pump which constitutes a mbdified embodiment of the invention, this view being in crosssection along thevertical mid-plane and showing in particular the thrust-bearing.
The turbomolecular pump which is illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 comprises a housing lo'formed of a number of assembled parts and having an upper opening 11 which is connected to a pipe for drawing gases from the enclosure to be evacuated and a lower opening 12 which provides a connection with a pipe 14 for discharging said gases to a primary vacuum source. A vertical rotor 16 which provides a separation between the openings 11 and I2 is placed within the pump housing which has a cylindrical shape anda vertical axis. Said rotor is made up of stacked discs 18 which are mountedon a sleeve 20 and retained by a lower end-plate 22.
The pump housing 10 is also adapted to carry a stack of stationary circular discs 28 which are interposed between the rotary discs 18 and clamped between an annular shoulder 30 of the pump housing and elastic retaining members as represented diagrammatically in FIG. 1 by a simple washer 32. The longitudinal and radial clearances which are necessary for good operation of the pump are provided between the rotary discs and the stationary discs 28. These general arrangements need not be described further since reference can be made to the prior literature and in particular to US. Pat. No. I 475 765 which has already been cited.
The upper end portion of a supporting and driving shaft 34 is secured to the end-plate 22 of the rotor 16.,
Said shaft is driven in rotation by an electric motor 36 which is placed beneath the rotor 16. The motor 36 comprises a stationary assembly which is essentially constituted by a stator winding 92 carried by a casing 93 which is mounted on the base of the pump housing 10 and by a rotary assembly. Said rotary assembly is essentially made up of 'a rotor winding 94 which is carried by a sleeve 96.
In the embodiment which is illustrated in FIG. 1, provision is made for a circulation system which serves to cool the electric motor. Said system comprises a fluid supply pipe (arrow f), a jacket 98 which defines with the casing 93 an annular chamber which surrounds the stator winding 94 and a delivery pipe 5 (arrow 1' the heat which is'generated in the stator winding passes through the jacket into the coolant fluid.
The rotary assembly of the electric motor 36 is carried by a thrust-bearing which also accommodates the vertical stresses produced by the rotor 16 and transmitted by the shaft 34 (arising in particular from the weight of the rotor). Said thrust-bearing is made up of two ball-bearings 38 and 38'. The bearing 38 is interposed between the upper extremity of the sleeve 96 and a flange plate 40 which isplaced at the top portion of the casing 93. The second ball-bearing is interposed between the lower extremity of the sleeve 96 and a socket which is attached to the end-plate 42 of the casing 93. A sump 44 located beneath the end-plate 42 serves to collect any oil leakage which may develop.
' The lower portion of the shaft 34 is provided with a boss 46 and below this latter with an extension 48 of smaller diameter. Said extension'is adapted to engage within a bore having a diameter which corresponds to the sleeve and is secured in position within this latter by means of nuts 50. That portion of the shaft 34 which is located above the boss 46 passes through the sleeve within a passage having a diameter which is sufficient to permit slight bending of said shaft. Finally, the upper poition of the shaft has a cone' 52 for receiving the endplate 22 of the rotor 16.
The rotor 16 which is carried by the ball-bearings 38 and 38' is centered by means of two magnetic halfbearings 54 and 54' which are placed respectively above and below the rotor. These two bearings are of identical constructional design and are both placed between the rotor 16 and the pump housing so that only the first bearing will therefore be described.
The upper half-bearing 54 (shown in FIG. 2) comprises astationary portion which is rigidly fixed to the cover 56 of the pump housing 10 and a rotary portion which is rigidly fixed to the rotor 16. The portion which is secured to the cover 56 comprises an annular flangeplate 62 which is rigidly fixed to the cover 56 by means of threaded rings 64. The upper end portions of a number of small columns 66 which are parallel to the axis of the rotor and are three in number, for example, are fixed at uniform intervals around the periphery of the flange plate 62. The lower end of each column is attached to a casing 68 formed of a plurality of assembled parts. Said casing contains a number of magnets 72 (six magnets by way of example). The magnetic flux of said magnets is closed by means of a circuit comprising two plates 74 and 76 provided with oppositely-facing centering teeth. The rotary portion of the magnetic centering half-bearing 54 is essentially constituted by the plate 76, the teeth of which are intended to be located in alignment with the teeth of the plate 74.
The lower half-bearing 54' is similar in constructional design to the upper half-bearing and is fixed on a flange plate 78 which is secured to the pump housing by means of small columns 66.
The magnetic bearings are characterized by a relatively low degree of stiffness. It is in order to take this property into account that the stationary portions of the two half-bearings 54 and 54' are not rigidly mounted on the pump housing but are mounted by means of small columns 66 or 66 formed of material having a high degree of elasticity (non-magnetic spring steel, for example). The presence of said columns facilitates transition of the rotor to critical speeds.
The action of said small columns 66 and 66' can be completed by elastic supporting elements. Each of these elements (shown in FIG. 2) comprises a spring 80 interposed between a stud 82 which is carried by the casing of the corresponding half-bearing and an adjusting screw 84 which is attached to the flange plate 62.
It is apparent that, by means of the assembly which has just been described, two different units are intended to perform the respective functions of transmission of axial stresses and of centering. By virtue of the fact that the shaft 34 is of substantial length between the point of attachment to the sleeve 96 (centering of this latter must clearly remain within the tolerance range specified in order to ensure good operation of the electric motor) and the point of attachment to the rotor and the fact that the shaft is slightly flexible, radial displacement of the rotor is consequently permitted. Centering is thus carried out solely by the mangetic bearing which is constituted by the two half-bearings 54 and 54', each half-bearing being intended to retain one of the opposite faces of the rotor 16.
The ball-bearings illustrated in FIG. 1 are of the permanently-lubricated type and therefore do not require any additional lubrication. However, in order to prevent any oil vapour from escaping towards the rotor, provision is made for a bell-housing 86 which is fixed on the flange plate 40 and allows sufficient clearance for the radial displacements of the shaft 34.
The embodiment which is illustrated in FIG. 3 differs from the preceding embodiment primarily in the fact that it makes use of lubricated bearings. In FIG. 3 in which the components corresponding to those already illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 bear the same reference numerals followed by the index a, there is again shown a pump housing 10a, and end-plate 95a and a casing 93a which is carried by said end-plate and provided with a cooling system 98a. The shaft 34a which supports the rotor 16a is secured to the lower portion of a sleeve 96a. Said sleeve is centered by means of two ballbearings 42a and 38a which form a thrust-bearing. A lubrication system is associated with said bearing and has an admissionpassage 100 which opens into a space defined at the upper end of said passage by two sealing rings 102 and 104 which are adapted to cooperate so as to constitute a labyrinth seal. The inner ring 102 is attached to the sleeve 96a whilst the outer ring 104 is attached to the cover 78a which closes the casing 93a and carries the outer raceway of the ball-bearing 38a.
Oil which is admitted through the passage 100 flows downwards through the ball-bearing 38a, is projected outwards by a centrifugal deflector 106 which protects the motor, flows through a bore 108 towards the lower ball-bearing 42a and thence into the sump 44a.
Other embodiments can obviously be devised and it must be understood that any alternative forms of either all or part of the arrangements herein described which come within the definition of equivalent mechanical means are covered by this patent. In particular, the two magnetic half-bearings can be of a type other than that which has been described by way of example.
We claim l. A vertical turbomolecular pump comprising a stationary housing provided with an inlet and an outlet; a driving motor having a stationary part and a part rotatable about a vertical axis; a turbomolecular pump rotor located above said motor and coaxial therewith, separating said inlet and outlet; a transmission shaft drivably connecting said rotor and rotatable part, and means for supporting and centering said rotor, shaft and rotating part, with respect to said housing, having a pair of magnetic centering bearings located one at each axial end of said rotor, and mechanical thrust bearing means located under said rotor.
2. A pump in accordance with claim 1, wherein the thrust-bearing means comprises' two ball-bearings located one at each end of the rotating part of said motor.
3. A pump in accordance with claim 1, wherein said rotating part includes a central sleeve carried by said thrust-bearing means and wherein said shaft is secured to said rotor and to said sleeve at locations separated with a free length which imparts to said shaft a flexibility allowing radial displacement of the rotor.
4. A pump in accordance with claim 3, wherein said rotor and said sleeve are located under the rotor, the lower end of said shaft is secured to the lower portion of said sleeve, said shaft extends through said sleeve with a radial clearance and the upper end of said shaft is attached to the rotor.
5. A pump in accordance with claim 1, wherein each of said magnetic nearings comprises a rotating toothed plate securely connected to an end face of the rotor and a stationary casing provided with magnets and with a toothed plate operatively associated with said rotating plate.
6. A turbomolecular pump in accordance with claim 1, wherein said outlet is for connection with a primary vacuum source and is so located that said'motor is immersed in'the primary vacuum.
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All the legislators of the human race, until that day [held] sovereignty to be unlimited and illimitable. The Declaration… proclaimed… a law of resistance against sovereign power, when wielded for oppression. A law ascending to the tribunal of the universal lawgiver and judge. A law of right, binding upon nations as well as individuals, upon sovereigns as well as upon subjects. By that law the colonists resisted their sovereign. By that law… they appealed to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of their intentions, and neither claimed nor conferred authority to do anything but of right (Read Complete speech at Library of Congress).
Adams went on to excoriate the sin of the Union's failure to live up to the Declaration by ending human slavery, warning of civil war and the high cost to future generations, foremost, the failure to fulfill that mission of Jesus Christ. He ended his speech with what was, in essence, an altar call to repentance.


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So you want to emulate the native android shutdown sequence. Broken power button? Car or fixed Nexus 7 installation? TV Stick? Here is the solution! (I advise you not to use one of the many shutdown apps because they shutdown without unmounting filesystem etc. and thus can damage your filesystem in the long run).
This should work on ANY Android device!
You can do it directly on your device, no adb needed. BUT: You have to be rooted!
How to:
1. Install Bash X from playstore (I'm not affiliated with them)
2. Start it and choose #root shell
3. Type: getevent -c 3
4. Push power button and release it (short, without the boot dialog)
5. Now you see something like this:
# getevent -c 3
add device 1: /dev/input/event0
name: "pmic8xxx_pwrkey"
add device 2: /dev/input/event1
name: "gk-keypad-8064"
add device 3: /dev/input/event4
name: "hs_detect"
add device 4: /dev/input/event3
name: "suspend_autotest_pwrkey"
could not get driver version for /dev/input/mice, Not a typewriter
add device 5: /dev/input/event2
name: "touch_mxt1188S"
/dev/input/event0: 0001 0074 00000001
/dev/input/event0: 0000 0000 00000000
/dev/input/event0: 0001 0074 00000000
add device output shows you the event numbers off your input devices. On my LG Pad the power key is assigned to /dev/input/event0. On your device it will be a other eventX number. On my Nexus 7 it is event2 (gpio).
Now we convert the hex strings of the events in dec (google a online converter). The last 3 lines then look like this:
/dev/input/event0: 1 116 1
/dev/input/event0: 0 0 0
/dev/input/event0: 1 116 0
1 116 1 means power key down
1 116 0 means power key release
6. Install Tasker. Set up a new profile with the profile you want to be the trigger for your action (shutdown). Under tasks choose script, start shell and paste our new script:
/dev/input/event0: 1 116 1;
/dev/input/event0: 0 0 0;
sleep 1;
/dev/input/event0: 1 116 0;
Now we need only some dpad keys for going down and right in the menu:
input keyevent 20;
input keyevent 66;
input keyevent 22;
input keyevent 66;
(Where 20 is down, 22 is right and 66 is enter. This works on stock and CM10)
The Tasker action finally looks like this:
/dev/input/event0: 1 116 1;
/dev/input/event0: 0 0 0;
/dev/input/event0: 1 116 0;
input keyevent 20;
input keyevent 66;
input keyevent 22;
input keyevent 66;
Don't forget to check "use root" in your action. Test it out!
Cool it is
I also thank the many people working on this question on other places.
edit: if you experience no proper shutdown (have to press 15sec power button for boot), its because tasker hangs on shutdown. Export a app from tasker and start it with automateit. Weird but it works
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Monday, 8th July 2013
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Holiday Inn® Guayaquil Airport Hotel marks first IHG®-branded hotel in Guayaquil.
IHG announced the opening of the 122-room Holiday Inn® Hotel Guayaquil Airport in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The seven-story new-build hotel is adjacent to the José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport, and is the second IHG®-branded hotel for Ecuador, with the first being the Holiday Inn Express® Quito, located in Ecuadors capital city of Quito.
The addition of the Holiday Inn Guayaquil Airport hotel is in line with IHGs strategy to expand our portfolio in all key markets across the region, said Alvaro Diago, chief operating officer, Latin America and the Caribbean, IHG. Guayaquil is an ideal location as it attracts both business and leisure travelers. We are also excited to partner with BPO Asesores Empresariales S.A. on this property and look forward to continuing our relationship with them. The ownership recently announced plans for the Holiday Inn Quito Airport hotel, scheduled to debut in 2016.
Guayaquil is Ecuadors main port and economic hub. The city boasts significant regional influence in commercial, financial and cultural activities, is an important center for Ecuador's manufacturing industries and home to key business enterprises. The hotel is also close to the citys convention center and main business area.
We are thrilled to have opened a Holiday Inn in such a wonderful city, said Gerardo Murray, vice president, Marketing Strategic Services for Mexico, Latin America and Caribbean, IHG. Guayaquil lures both business and leisure travelers alike, and the hotel's proximity to the citys convention center, downtown, main business area and shopping venues make it ideal."
The new hotel will be designed in line with the Holiday Inn brand familys $1 billion global brand relaunch, the largest project of its kind in hospitality history. The relaunch continues to drive increased quality and consistency across the global portfolio. The hotel will feature a contemporary image with emphasis on arrival and welcome services, guestroom and guest bath comfort and a redesigned logo and signage.
The Holiday Inn brand attracts the precise demographic we are seeking for the hotel in Guayaquil, said Juan Carlos Santos of BPO Asesores Empresariales S.A. Since the city is the countrys main business hub and the hotel is located at the airport, the Holiday Inn brand, known for its comfort, convenience and value, is a perfect addition to the area.
Situated in the Kennedy Norte neighborhood, the Holiday Inn Guayaquil Airport hotel features an outdoor swimming pool, business center, fitness center overlooking the airport and city, lobby bar, eight meeting rooms with capacity for over 200 people and free airport shuttle service. Just a short walk from the airport, the hotel also features complimentary high-speed Internet, cable TV, safe deposit facilities and mini bar. On the top floor overlooking the city is the Executive Floor equipped with an exclusive front desk, lounge and a VIP meeting room. The hotels culinary offering serves up a range of regional dishes from the coast of Ecuador as well as select international options at the ConneXion Bistro-Bar. The restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and offers the Holiday Inn Best-4-Breakfastâ menu, with signature items such as Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee, Cinnamon Supreme French Toast and Skillet Inspirations. Kids 12 and younger eat free at Holiday Inn hotels when ordering from the kids menu in the hotel restaurant and accompanied by a dining adult. Room Service Right On Time, also at all Holiday Inn hotels, ensures that guests room service orders are accurate and delivered on time, every time.
Holiday Inn hotels feature a residential atmosphere that is warm, trend forward and comfortable. Guest beds are made using crisp, white bedding with pillows that come in two comfort levels: soft and firm. The residential design will include business-focused necessities such as an ergonomic workstation and data ports with the bathrooms including a multifunctional showerhead, as well as a signature shower curtain with curved rod, and amenities. Additionally, each room will have standard Holiday Inn guestroom accommodations comfortable double, queen or king-sized beds, a sitting area with a lounge chair, hairdryer, micro fridge, coffee maker, iron and ironing board.
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By the end of the day, corn futures had recovered better than a nickel of the 18-cent post-report losses seen Tuesday. Today, EIA reported weekly ethanol production averaged 952,000 barrels/day, off 1K from the prior week. Ethanol stocks tightened to 20.5 million barrels from 21.3 million the week before. Today USDA released its Grain Crushings and Co-Products report for February. Corn used for alcohol and other uses was 442.2 million bushels, down 11% from January and 13% from December. Fuel alcohol use was 395.8 million, down 11% and 13% from the prior two months. Keep in mind February has 9.7% fewer days, so the daily rate of corn use declined only modestly. Sorghum fell out of the fuel category in February, likely because it was going to export.
Soybean futures ended the day with double-digit gains on the heels of the 5-6.5 cents added Tuesday. Funds seem to be pushing some money toward beans, perhaps on the hope of a weather scare. With record acreage on tap, it is hard to see a sustainable rally right now, however. Seven states could plant record soybean crops based on the Intentions report. Alphabetically they are Kentucky, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The biggest expected drops from 2014 are in Kansas and Nebraska.
Wheat futures also closed higher by double digits today. Wheat in western Nebraska is showing winterkill, according to the Nebraska Wheat Board. Some fields have 60-80% damage; less severely impacted fields, 40-50%. Soil moisture remains short and that part of the state falls just outside the area expecting rain and even severe storms tonight. Russia is raising support prices for 2015 wheat in an effort to halt rumored cuts in input use by producers, which could reduce yields. With US spring wheat intentions lower than expected, weather in the northern tier will draw some interest in the weeks ahead.
Live cattle finished mixed with April up almost a half dollar but later contracts down. April is a few dollars below the cash trade from last week. Feeder futures show the same pattern. The CME feeder cattle index is at $218.65, only a few cents above nearby April feeder futures. The cash cattle market is quiet, with some initial bids at $160. Cash asking prices are in the $167-168 area. Wholesale beef prices are higher again today, with USDA showing Choice boxes up $1.29 at $255.42 and Select up $1.57 at $250.21.
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Cotton futures were down a half cent or more with little news to offer support, although the US dollar index should have given this export-oriented market a little respite with a drop of 0.1380 to 98.2190 today. The export sales report tomorrow will be the next piece of data that could sway the market. Friday's monthly unemployment report also could have some influence since at least some components of cotton use are still tied to consumer financial well-being. The Cotlook A Index is 69.45, down 0.90. Certified stocks for March 31 were UNCH at 11,011. There are 0 bales awaiting review.
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TV putting boxing down for the count
One of the most exciting American boxers in years will defend his title this weekend. You've probably never heard of him.
His name is Adrien Broner, and although he is the world lightweight champion, he is not exactly famous. That boxing is no longer a popular sport in the United States is hardly a revelation. The reasons for its demise, however, may surprise you.
As we continue to learn more about the serious long-term health risks of playing football, we keep hearing the question: Is football destined to go the way of boxing? The implication is that people stopped watching boxing because they were turned off by the spectacle of two men doing serious, possibly permanent harm to each other. The only problem with this theory is that it isn't true.
The force most responsible for boxing's decline is the same one that causes all sports to live or die: television.
Boxing once relied heavily on prime-time Olympic exposure to introduce its future stars to the U.S. sports-viewing public. We first met Muhammad Ali as Cassius Clay — the slender, charismatic 18-year-old light-heavyweight gold medalist in 1960 in Rome. Boxing was the highest-rated Olympic sport of the 1976 summer games in Montreal, which featured Sugar Ray Leonard as well as Michael and Leon Spinks. Just 16 years later, in Barcelona, Olympic boxing made its final prime-time appearance on U.S. broadcast television.
In the intervening period, the networks basically abandoned the sport. This happened partly because an aggressive Home Box Office executive named Seth Abraham spent a lot of money systematically luring the big fights away from the networks.
Not that the networks put up much resistance. Boxing's fan base wasn't necessarily shrinking, but its sponsors were turning against it. The unpredictability of the length of fights posed a problem for advertisers: A heavily promoted 1983 bout between heavyweight champion Larry Holmes and Marvis Frazier, for instance, lasted less than one round.
Advertisers also had issues with boxing's reputation — not for brutality but for corruption. The sport was dominated by promoters such as Don King, who served time in prison for manslaughter, and Bob Arum, who once tried to reassure the public that he could be trusted by saying, "Yesterday, I was lying, but today I'm telling the truth."
HBO — and later Showtime — didn't have to worry about satisfying advertisers; it could underwrite fights by making them pay-per-view events. This may have worked as a business strategy (Mike Tyson, in particular, was a cash cow for HBO), but it helped to turn boxing into a niche sport followed only by those willing to pay $59.95 or more to watch big bouts. It also ensured that football would become America's socially sanctioned, violent sport of choice — and that Adrien Broner would never become a household name.
Boxing remains plagued by corruption. Not so many years ago, a cable-TV programming manager was discovered to have been giving preferential treatment to a promoter in exchange for "dates" with a porn star. Boxing's biggest problem, however, is a lack of recognizable stars. Blame that on not being able to watch fights for free during prime sports-viewing hours.
Before boxing's demise, horse racing followed a similar trajectory, for similar reasons. You might still be able to tick off the names of dozens of thoroughbred horses if track owners hadn't been so scared that TV would keep people in their living rooms instead of at the betting windows.
Other sports were smarter about television. According to the mythology, it was Michael Jordan (with an assist from commissioner David Stern) who single-handedly saved the National Basketball Association. No less important was a TV strategy that included cutting back on the glut of games available on local cable channels, changing the league's playoff schedule to accommodate CBS and televising the annual slam-dunk contest and college draft.
Virtually every sport that has flourished in the modern era has TV to thank. The National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament has been around for almost 75 years, but it was "March Madness" — now a joint production of CBS and Turner Sports — that engraved it in our national sports calendar.
College football's popularity can be traced to a 1984 Supreme Court decision, NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, that freed schools and their conferences to negotiate their own contracts with the networks. (Three times as many college games were televised nationally in 1984 as in 1983; end-of-season bowl games were now available for just about any company looking to sponsor one.)
Even in the age of the digital video recorder, we still like to watch our sports live. Television rights are priced accordingly. The TV sports bubble, inflated by increasingly exorbitant national and local deals, just keeps expanding. The Los Angeles Angels, Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Dodgers have all recently signed multibillion-dollar contracts with Fox Sports affiliates. Such irrational exuberance is driving subscriber fees so high that at least one cable executive has said government intervention may be necessary.
So the next time someone asks you if football is destined to go the way of boxing, feel free to answer: Yes — just as soon as the networks stop televising it.
Jonathan Mahler is a sports columnist for Bloomberg View. He is the author of the best-selling Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning and Death Comes to Happy Valley.
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