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NFL: FCC sports blackout rule eliminated

Agreed. I just hate blackouts in Des Moines when I'm at least 3 hours from the nearest NFL stadium.
 
jbhtexas said:
The FCC at least doesn't expect much to change...
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no, it won't, but at least the charade will be over, and the NFL won't be able to hide behind the rule. If they want to black out games, it will because they want to do it, and they'll take the full force of the PR hit, if there is any.
 
Major League Baseball needs to figure this out. Iowa is the worst place in the country to be if you buy mlb.tv.
 
ISUCyclones2015 said:
Won't be a PR hit because it'll just be status quo and no one will know anything changed
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why won't people know? especially with this new wrinkle of the FCC getting out of it? Don't you think local sportswriters in the Jacksonville, Tampa, or San Diego markets will write about it every time they have games blacked out for their teams? It's open season on the NFL, right now, when it comes to taking shots at their practices. Everyone is looking to land that next punch on them.

don't get me wrong, it may not be a PR disaster at all, but the next time the NFL blacks out a game, you'd better believe the media in that market will point out that it's an NFL decision and not an FCC call.
 
Mr Janny said:
no, it won't, but at least the charade will be over, and the NFL won't be able to hide behind the rule. If they want to black out games, it will because they want to do it, and they'll take the full force of the PR hit, if there is any.
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Agreed, and it will be interesting to see how the NFL PR folks spin "we need you to be in the stadium because we make alot more money off you there than we make off you sitting at home and watching on TV"...
 
Colin Cowherd was going off on this over the lunch hour. A lot of "don't mess with the gov't" and other black helicopters follow me home type stuff.

I don't get why an exemption (that's what I gathered it is) is/was in place to begin with. Shouldn't it be up to the NFL to decide what games are aired and which ones aren't? I don't understand the FCC intervention in the first place - but his rants were off base as it seems the gov't interfered on the NFL's behalf a long time ago. Also made the accusation that this is all in response to Daniel Snyder and the Washington R*******

And why does MLB get to (I gather) continue blacking out home market games the way they do?
 
RubyClone said:
Colin Cowherd was going off on this over the lunch hour. A lot of "don't mess with the gov't" and other black helicopters follow me home type stuff.

I don't get why an exemption (that's what I gathered it is) is/was in place to begin with. Shouldn't it be up to the NFL to decide what games are aired and which ones aren't? I don't understand the FCC intervention in the first place - but his rants were off base as it seems the gov't interfered on the NFL's behalf a long time ago. Also made the accusation that this is all in response to Daniel Snyder and the Washington R*******

And why does MLB get to (I gather) continue blacking out home market games the way they do?
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Because **** you, that's why.
 
RubyClone said:
And why does MLB get to (I gather) continue blacking out home market games the way they do?
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Since we're in Iowa it's expected that you get the local affiliates for each team of the Cubs, White Sox, Brewers, Twins, Royals, and Cardinals and therefore don't need online access.

If the local affiliate knows you're going to watch an online stream they're no longer in control of the ads and therefore FSNorth isn't going to give the Twins the same contract since there are less eyeballs watching their broadcast. Why they don't just sell the stream wholly to MLB.tv is beyond me.
 
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IcSyU said:
Since we're in Iowa it's expected that you get the local affiliates for each team of the Cubs, White Sox, Brewers, Twins, Royals, and Cardinals and therefore don't need online access.

If the local affiliate knows you're going to watch an online stream they're no longer in control of the ads and therefore FSNorth isn't going to give the Twins the same contract since there are less eyeballs watching their broadcast. Why they don't just sell the stream wholly to MLB.tv is beyond me.
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But don't they also do it often with ESPN as well? I've never understood (or particularly cared - not a huge baseball guy) how I can go to the Sunday night game and sometimes see it blacked out if it's the Cubs or Cards or someone local (as if I'm going to hop in the car and hit a game at Wrigley 6 hours away on a whim). I'm sure it's a particular situation I'm not understanding, but it always seems weird.

But to your point, I loved when I had MediaCom and they only had FS Midwest and the Cubs used to split between WGN and CSN (which MediaCom didn't carry). So apparently I was blacked out (online) for games I couldn't get locally. CSN was getting/paying for exclusive rights to people who were unable to get their programming.

Perhaps they're protecting me from the misery - but that's another discussion.
 
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RubyClone said:
But to your point, I loved when I had MediaCom and they only had FS Midwest and the Cubs used to split between WGN and CSN (which MediaCom didn't carry). So apparently I was blacked out (online) for games I couldn't get locally. CSN was getting/paying for exclusive rights to people who were unable to get their programming.
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I wrote a letter to FSN North, Mediacom, and the Twins every year for 8 years because Iowa is FSN North territory yet Mediacom refused to show that channel. It was solved when I got the sportspak but still pisses me off.
 
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