When there is a Diamondbacks game on both FSN and TBS -- TBS is blacked out. Yet, when the game is on both FSN and Superstation WGN -- WGN does NOT get blacked out.
What is the reason for this?
What is the reason for this?
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Diamondbacks blackouts
- Thread starter justthenumbers
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I think home vs. away is the key, as the last TBS blackout
vs. FSN was a Dbacks home game.
Did anyone also notice during today's game that FSN was
about five seconds behind WGN? (Source: standard def
TV on analog Cox Cable.)
(Bonks self in head) I forgot to check Sports Parking Lot 620
to see where they were in the delay mix. Does KT'R turn off
the I-CRAP on away games as well as home? (And no, I
didn't want a V8.
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vs. FSN was a Dbacks home game.
Did anyone also notice during today's game that FSN was
about five seconds behind WGN? (Source: standard def
TV on analog Cox Cable.)
(Bonks self in head) I forgot to check Sports Parking Lot 620
to see where they were in the delay mix. Does KT'R turn off
the I-CRAP on away games as well as home? (And no, I
didn't want a V8.
)It has nothing to do with home and away. That only applies to the NFL. TBS and WGN are two different animals. TBS' baseball contract is considered a national broadcast contract not specific to any one team. Therefore their games are blacked out in the local markets (just like ESPN on Monday night.) WGN's deal with the Cubs is no different than the D-backs had with KTVK up until this year. It is simply a local broadcast that happens to be on a superstation. Had KTVK been a superstation carried in Chicago last year, viewers there could have seen both feeds as well.
But all of this is likely to change in the near future with the Cubs being sold and Tribune set to "rebrand" the Superstation feed of WGN. Soon enough Cubs fans, just like all other baseball fans, will have to get the baseball package in order to watch most of their team's games. Maybe then the D-backs can pick up a few more fans???
But all of this is likely to change in the near future with the Cubs being sold and Tribune set to "rebrand" the Superstation feed of WGN. Soon enough Cubs fans, just like all other baseball fans, will have to get the baseball package in order to watch most of their team's games. Maybe then the D-backs can pick up a few more fans???
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