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The migration of franchises, meanwhile, breaks the hearts of old fans and rips the hearts out of cities--generally northern industrial cities--that can't afford to compete against the new metropolises of the Sunbelt.
Articles chronicle the phenomenal efforts by the seven firms, especially Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., to protect their franchises by lobbying Washington.
If the fast-food world had only three players, and McDonalds's proposed to buy out Burger King, how reassured would we be if they offered the palliative of selling a few franchises to Taco Bell?
How long before the NBA has franchises from Zurich to Shanghai?
"We heard that some of our franchises were doing this sort of thing, and we get angry when we hear about them doing it."