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Why is a football game on ESPN a quasi-public good but a game on the NBC, CBS, or ABC is a public good

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To begin with, the concept of a "Quasi-public good" refers to the type of good that has the characteristics of both the private goods and the public goods. A common example of them are the roads and the tunnels. These goods has partial excludability, partial rivalry, partial diminishability and partial rejectability and the market for them are considered to be incomplete markets.

Secondly, when it comes to the football game on ESPN the good is considered to be a quasi-public one due to the fact that the channel is only for sports and the company provides the service to the operator who provides it to the consumer who wants that specific service and it does it after collecting some charges for telecasting the channel and that is why the good is quasi-public.

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