Sports
Updated: Chargers Able to Avoid TV Blackout
The team had until 1 p.m. on Friday to sell out Qualcomm Stadium.
Update: The Chargers have announced that they have sold enough tickets and Sunday’s game against the Chiefs will be televised locally. Kickoff is at 1 p.m. on KFMB Channel 8. Tickets will still be available at the box office.
The San Diego Chargers still haven’t sold enough tickets for Sunday’s home game against the Kansas City Chiefs to be televised locally, but the NFL has granted the team a 24-hour extension, which will end Friday at 1 p.m. The Chargers need to sell about 3,900 tickets to avoid a blackout.
The team announced earlier this week that they are several thousand tickets short of a sellout, but only about 700 have since been sold.
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A handful of pricey club-level seats are not included in the formula at Qualcomm Stadium, which holds about 71,000 fans for football.
The blackout, if it happens, would be the first of this season. In 2010, three of the first four games did not appear on local television.
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City News Service contributed to this report.
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