San Diego Chargers TV blackouts are likely to return

The San Diego Union Tribune reports:

Blame the economy or high ticket prices or fans frustrated by that whole Super Bowl thing, but the Chargers have “thousands of tickets” remaining for every home game this season, according to Jim Steeg, the club's chief operating officer.

Steeg called it “unlikely” that either of the home exhibition games, a week from Saturday against Seattle or Sept. 4 against San Francisco, would be televised live in Southern California. Somewhere between 6,000 and 8,000 tickets must be sold to lift the blackout for the Seahawks game; the number is “a little bit” higher for the 49ers game.