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Football on the radio 2022

schmave said:
Try ESPN 1530's stream for the Bengals, and WLW after the Reds are finished. I was able to listen to most Bengals games last year through WLW's stream, but I'm also in suburban Columbus and I don't know how far one can hear Bengals games that way before the geofencing kicks in. We get Reds games here via WLW's stream as well.
I am guessing you are somewhere between Cleveland and Toledo?
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Correct. I'm up by Lorain. My internet - T-Mobile Home - somehow has me geo-located into Detroit, so all of my streaming ads are very Detroit-centric. I finally called, and the tech support there was baffled, but it's apparently a problem that a lot of people have (being pinged onto the wrong tower setup), so it's more of an annoyance than anything. I'm glad to finally see some new commercials from the Sam Bernstein Law Firm, but I can't believe that a law office has SO MANY COMMERCIALS. The geofencing must block it if you're very much out of the market, which Cleveland is for Cincinnati-based games.

I did sign up for NFL+, so maybe, between that and Paramount+, I'll be able to see the games when I'm able to. YouTube does upload highlight reels, so I can always see the highlights that way. I've been lucky for the past two weeks, but maybe that's why my Paramount+ CBS feed was from the two different stations? I did favorite the Bengals, so maybe NFL+ is going to deliver their games to me purely out of preference? I know Thursday's game is out because I don't have Prime Video (although, Channel 5 carrying the Browns game was a bit of a surprise... maybe Amazon doesn't have a draconian hold on Thursday games after all), but hopefully the rest are good.
 
Now that WEWS aired Thursday Night Football from Amazon Prime for the Browns-Steelers matchup, what are some thoughts from the presentation on streaming compared to cable and over-the-air?
 
MegaBlue said:
Correct. I'm up by Lorain. My internet - T-Mobile Home - somehow has me geo-located into Detroit, so all of my streaming ads are very Detroit-centric. I finally called, and the tech support there was baffled, but it's apparently a problem that a lot of people have (being pinged onto the wrong tower setup), so it's more of an annoyance than anything. I'm glad to finally see some new commercials from the Sam Bernstein Law Firm, but I can't believe that a law office has SO MANY COMMERCIALS. The geofencing must block it if you're very much out of the market, which Cleveland is for Cincinnati-based games.

I did sign up for NFL+, so maybe, between that and Paramount+, I'll be able to see the games when I'm able to. YouTube does upload highlight reels, so I can always see the highlights that way. I've been lucky for the past two weeks, but maybe that's why my Paramount+ CBS feed was from the two different stations? I did favorite the Bengals, so maybe NFL+ is going to deliver their games to me purely out of preference? I know Thursday's game is out because I don't have Prime Video (although, Channel 5 carrying the Browns game was a bit of a surprise... maybe Amazon doesn't have a draconian hold on Thursday games after all), but hopefully the rest are good.
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The NFL has a long standing rule that games must be aired on a broadcast station in the participating teams' home markets. So it aired in Cleveland and Pittsburgh, but everyone else had to do the streaming thing
 
MediaLover said:
Now that WEWS aired Thursday Night Football from Amazon Prime for the Browns-Steelers matchup, what are some thoughts from the presentation on streaming compared to cable and over-the-air?
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It was fine.

Everyone pretty much uses the same recipe for NFL telecasts.
 
vjm said:
The NFL has a long standing rule that games must be aired on a broadcast station in the participating teams' home markets. So it aired in Cleveland and Pittsburgh, but everyone else had to do the streaming thing
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Gotcha. I was wondering why "Amazon has the Thursday games locked down" meant that 5 could still run it, but that rule makes sense. It kind of draws away from Prime's appeal of getting the Thursday games if your local market will still broadcast it, though.
 
True, but it doesn't hurt Prime's business considering very few people would see multiple OTA simulcasts in a given area in a season, outside the two-team markets and somewhere like the Baltimore/D.C. overlap areas. I think the OTA simulcast rule is one of the best rules the NFL has when it comes to television.
 
You're right, and - luckily for me - my NFL+ basic access account does give me the Thursday games, but only on my phone, so I can still watch the games even without Prime Video itself. I do quite enjoy their presentation, too.
 
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