CBS on Stream

[lordodogg]

I am currently traveling and am getting the New York stations on the Stream app. For whatever reason, WCBS is giving me a "Looks like you're traveling" message, but I'm clearly within the NYC market. Could it be because of the ongoing dispute with WYOU, which is the affiliate I have at home? TYIA.

 

[lordodogg]

CBS is currently airing a WNBA game, if that helps. I'm thinking it might be because of some kind of contractual restriction with that league.

 

[harshness]

Could it be because of the ongoing dispute with WYOU, which is the affiliate I have at home?

This seems a more likely justification. Otherwise, they might have others using VPNs to other markets to bypass the dispute.

 

[lordodogg]

Ah. That sucks if that's really the case. I can access all the other NY stations with no issues except for WCBS.

 

[lordodogg]

I'm now getting Albany stations, so I decided to try WRGB 6 and sure enough, I'm getting the same error. Seems like Mission is forcing some kind of blackout of CBS programming in all markets if the customer is traveling and their home affiliate is affected by the dispute. Funny thing is that they are also affected by the dispute themselves as they don't have their Fox affiliate, WXXA/23.