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CSN Philly Phillies on MLB Extra Innings on DTV

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First let me say, I have Comcast and DirecTv in my house. We keep Comcast for the triple play and OnDemand is pretty cool especial Preston & Steve OnDemand. I'm from Boston originally so, I have DirecTv for the NFL Sunday Ticket, go Pats!, and I order the MLB on there too because I can just watch the Red Sox pre and post game shows on NESN. We were having a bad storm the other night, cable was out power was flickering and the Sox were over so, I flipped to the game mix channel on DTV and saw that the Phillies game was one of the 8 games on there and it was the CSN-Philly feed. I could watch the Phillies game on CSN-Philly on DirecTv on 1/8 of my screen but, not the full screen. It's not there. It's blacked out. What's the deal with not offering this programming if a person pays so much for the MLB. If I'm outside Philly, I can watch the CSN game on DirecTv but not here? Why don't the Phillies put pressure on Comcast to put CSN on satellite? I know the other 2 Comcast owned teams won't. CSN Philly isn't the only RSN not on satellite. Cox owns a channel that broadcasts the Padres that is only on cable in San Diego.

ALSO, when your entire neighborhood is without power (or even a certian part), so are the Comcast amplifiers in your neighborhood. It doesn't matter that they put a battery in your phone modem. If the amp. doesn't have power, that is a service outage until they can roll a truck with a generator on it. They plug in the amp. to the generator and magically there is no more service outage. Comcast stays there until PSE&G can clear all the trees off their wires and then put wires back up. I know this because power comes into my neighborhood from 2 different directions. My Comcast amplifier is at the end on my street and gets power from a different direction than I do.
 
The blackout rules for MLB are a major pain. I live in Wilmington and get the Phillies, Orioles and Nationals blacked out on the Extra Innings package. Fortunately this year I can see all Orioles and Nationals games since Comcast added MASN and MASN2 to our lineup. Last year the Nationals were like a virus - every game home and away was blacked out so I couldn't see any team they played. The Nationals were boring as hell but if they played a good team like the Cardinals or Dodgers I wasn't able to see it. I was able to see Phillies-Nationals games. This year the Extra Innings package has showed some Padre games from COX 4 in San Diego. The announcers mentioned that particular game was on cable and not on the broadcast channel. You need MLB TV to watch the games that are not on the local FSN stations or NESN, YES, etc. That sucks also.
 
simontemplar said:
This year the Extra Innings package has showed some Padre games from COX 4 in San Diego. The announcers mentioned that particular game was on cable and not on the broadcast channel.
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??? I always thought "channel 4" was its cable channel location and not an OTA station.
 
You're probably right. I just did a google on San Diego TV and can't find any OTA Channel 4 in San Diego, just a Channel 4 on Cox Cable. I've seen Padres highlights on Sportscenter with a 4 on the screen and assumed it was a OTA station and that was why the games were never on the Extra Innings package. So Cox is the bad guy along with Comcast Philly not making the games available.
 
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