I challenge you to find me a non-local game being shown in an out of market environment. Simply put, if you live "OUT OF MARKET" i.e., not in that team's local area, the game is NOT available to you unless you pay a PREMIUM for a service such as "MLB Extra Innings". "InDemand/MLB Extra Innings" is the carrier of MLB out-of-market games on MOST cable systems. Blackouts protect the local rights-holders who arrange separate distribution agreements for their exclusive territories. These games will generally be available on that team's RSN or team affiliated OTA station. #ATT BLACK OUT CODE#Q: WHAT ARE THE LOCAL BROADCAST RIGHTS/RESTRICTIONS?Ī: If you live in a zip code area that falls within an MLB team's home television territory, that team's games will be blacked-out from MLB EXTRA INNINGS. Blackout restrictions are based on the home team's television territory as defined by Major League Baseball. I would need the following setup:ġ) A pay-TV provider with access to out-of-market regional channels AND MLB Extra InningsĢ) MLB Extra Innings to give me live access to the other gamesģ) The package with the out-of-market regional channelsĭirecTV is not giving them the live games without them subscribing to Extra Innings.įor now, U-Verse subscribers must subscribe to something like Roku or MLB.TV if they want to see live games that are not available in their region (as defined by MLB) or on ESPN, MLB Network, or broadcast over-the-air.Ī: Blackouts are regional television restrictions distributed in order to protect the local television rights' holder broadcasting the game. However, that's only if my assumption is true. I could switch to the MLB EI channel -OR- quite possibly, keep it on Root Sports. Once the game started, Extra Innings would be active. If I had DirecTV with MLB Extra Innings AND the Sports Pack, and wanted to watch the Seattle LA game, i could watch the pregame show on either Root Sports Northwest or FS PrimeTicket (or FS West), whichever one had the pregame show. I'm not 100% sure on this, but it is QUITE possible that IF someone has DirecTV and MLB Extra Innings, that the game would be on the Extra Innings channel as well as NOT blacked out on the regional example, I live in Ohio. I also called the MLB 86 and was told that out of market games on the FOX sports channels (and others) should not be blacked out. #ATT BLACK OUT TV#I have a number of friends who get the different FOX sports channel via direct TV and they can can watch any out of market game they want. It doesn't even mention out of market games broadcast on channels like FOX Sports. In regard to regular season games, it only talks about local (in market) games being blacked out on MLB TV and MLB.com. #ATT BLACK OUT FREE#If you have any more black out questions feel free to ask as a lot of us have purchased Mlb tv and can tell you how blackouts wrote: Your Only option right now on uverse since uverse does not carry mlb extra innings is to subscribe to MLB TV if you want to watch out of market games. On MLB website they mean nationally televised games on saturday on FOX from 4:05 to 7:05, and Sunday evening game on Espn will be blacked out to Mlb tv or mlb extra innings subscribers. ATT customer support told me to call FOX Sports! Everybody is passing the buck! They have these canned responses about MLB blackouts and don't even try to understand the issue is. My general option is that ATT customer support has no idea. So, ATT needs to explain why those who pay for the Premium HD package are getting blacked out. I just got off the phone with MLB and they did not mention it. So, I'm not sure where you are getting your information. It never mentions anything about being blacked out of games for out of market teams except on weekends. I've read the MLB blackout policy on thier web site. (There is a SMALL, I mean SMALL, portion of the country that is the territory for no wrote: In many cases, it could be a 4-5 hour drive, if not more, to the stadium of the "local" team. EVERY part of the country is "some team's" region. #ATT BLACK OUT PROFESSIONAL#Once professional sports (any league), you will see the "Game is blacked out out in your area" or whatever it says. On all of the "out of market" regional sports networks, all you will see is the "talking heads" shows, college sports (which some- very few- have blackout rules too) and other generic shows. You might be able to see the Orioles and perhaps the Braves (on TBS or Peachtree). So, you'll be stuck with those teams where you are "eligible" to see the games. UV doesn't offer Professional sports subscriptions at this time. You can not see the Dodges unless you "pay for the rights" from MLB via MLB Extra Innings. (I know, hard to believe their territory is that large). You live in the Cincinnati Reds team territory, not the Dodgers.
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