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Started by McKdaddy, April 14, 2013, 02:10:12 pm

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McKdaddy

I have rec'd EI (and Sunday Ticket) for '13 as a new DTV subscriber. All the Cards' games have been blacked-out, home and away, since getting DTV. DTV tells me that my zip code determines what my local team is, and it is the Cards.

(1) I guess I would expect home games to be blacked-out, but why are their road games also blacked-out?

(2) Why are the Cards my "local" team, instead of say, KC or TX? I live 7 hours from StL, but only 4 hours from KC and DFW.

Thanks
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ErieHog

Quote from: McKdaddy on April 14, 2013, 02:10:12 pm
I have rec'd EI (and Sunday Ticket) for '13 as a new DTV subscriber. All the Cards' games have been blacked-out, home and away, since getting DTV. DTV tells me that my zip code determines what my local team is, and it is the Cards.

(1) I guess I would expect home games to be blacked-out, but why are their road games also blacked-out?

(2) Why are the Cards my "local" team, instead of say, KC or TX? I live 7 hours from StL, but only 4 hours from KC and DFW.

Thanks

MLB has a blackout map, many areas of which overlap-- 


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McKdaddy

Quote from: ErieHog on April 14, 2013, 04:39:12 pm
MLB has a blackout map, many areas of which overlap-- 




Thanks E. So I'm in the KC blackout area, yet I've been able to watch KC games on EI since getting DTV (not that I watched the KC games, simply they were on EI channels next to the Cards' games, and not blacked-out to me). I hadn't checked whether or not I'm blacked-out of viewing TX or HOU games.
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ErieHog

Quote from: McKdaddy on April 14, 2013, 04:57:18 pm
Thanks E. So I'm in the KC blackout area, yet I've been able to watch KC games on EI since getting DTV (not that I watched the KC games, simply they were on EI channels next to the Cards' games, and not blacked-out to me). I hadn't checked whether or not I'm blacked-out of viewing TX or HOU games.

Keep in mind there are also other contracts that can offset a blackout-- if, for example you live in the blackout footprint, but it's a Fox game or a ESPN game or some ESPN2 or MLBtv games, you might not necessarily be blacked out,  because it's considered a nationally available thing.
No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power. It surpassed, exponentially, all other systems of production in turning out the dead. The bodies are all around us. And here is the problem: No one talks about them. No one honors them. No one does penance for them. No one has committed suicide for having been an apologist for those who did this to them. No one pays for them. No one is hunted down to account for them. It is exactly what Solzhenitsyn foresaw in The Gulag Archipelago: "No, no one would have to answer. No one would be looked into." Until that happens, there is no "after socialism."

bsking

Simple answer, they black it out because they expect it to be on a local affiliate and are too lazy to do a case-by-case basis.

McKdaddy

Quote from: bsking on April 14, 2013, 07:26:30 pm
Simple answer, they black it out because they expect it to be on a local affiliate and are too lazy to do a case-by-case basis.

I understand this better now, thanks to both of you. I understand the need to protect the rights agreement of the local/regional/national affiliate airing the game.

I ordered Fox Sports Midwest, which meant I had to order the entire "Sports Pack", which includes the entire FS lineup. I had FSMW & FSSW w/ Cox, but I had to finally move on from Cox.
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