Complex Cable MLB Blackouts?

[mecro]

I currently live in Lafayette, IN where we get "FSN Midwest" redistributed from DISH through our in house cable service. As far as I know, no MLB teams exist in Indiana. Everytime ANY team plays baseball on this channel, we get the 'The program is unavailable in your area' box that is famililar to those of us who had older DISH receivers. My question is this, Why is anything blacked out? FSN Midwest sometimes shows Cardinals games, Reds games, and they're all always blacked out. Is there something about my locale? I'm currently in 47909, despite the profile

Any ideas guys?

Satelliteguys RULES!

 

[cforrest]

It appears that FSN Midwest does not carry a MLB team for your zip code per D*'s RSN lookup for your zip code, these are the following teams and channels

With any TOTAL CHOICE® package:

Comcast SportsNet (Chicago) (Ch. 640)

Chicago Blackhawks

Chicago Bulls

Chicago Cubs

Chicago Fire

Chicago White Sox


With any TOTAL CHOICE® Premier package or any TOTAL CHOICE® package plus SPORTS Pack, you also get:

FOX Sports Net Cincinnati (Ch. 638)

Cincinnati Reds

Columbus Crew


Comcast SportsNet (Chicago) (Ch. 640)

Chicago Blackhawks

Chicago Bulls

Chicago Cubs

Chicago Fire

Chicago White Sox


FOX Sports Net Midwest (Ch. 647)

Indiana Fever

Indiana Pacers

St. Louis Blues

 

[pjm8047]

It appears that FSN Midwest does not carry a MLB team for your zip code per D*'s RSN lookup for your zip code, these are the following teams and channels

With any TOTAL CHOICE® package:

Comcast SportsNet (Chicago) (Ch. 640)

Chicago Blackhawks

Chicago Bulls

Chicago Cubs

Chicago Fire

Chicago White Sox


With any TOTAL CHOICE® Premier package or any TOTAL CHOICE® package plus SPORTS Pack, you also get:

FOX Sports Net Cincinnati (Ch. 638)

Cincinnati Reds

Columbus Crew


Comcast SportsNet (Chicago) (Ch. 640)

Chicago Blackhawks

Chicago Bulls

Chicago Cubs

Chicago Fire

Chicago White Sox


FOX Sports Net Midwest (Ch. 647)

Indiana Fever

Indiana Pacers

St. Louis Blues

This is not a directv forum

 

[pjm8047]

Here is a link telling you what you can watch on dish
http://dish.fxep.com/ASP/default.asp?DestPage=RegionTeams.asp?ZipCode=47909&ZipCode=47909

 

[cforrest]

This is not a directv forum

I know, but it was the only RSN zip lookup I could find at the time, he was looking for an answer. Bottom line FSN Midwest won't have any MLB games on it for the original poster.

 

[mecro]

So, even though they are scheduled and aired, I will always receive a blackout notice?

 

[Robert NTSC Archivist]

I live in West Virginia and when ever FSN Pitsburgh has an NBA basketball game scheduled its always blacked out on my Dish. Now its not blacked out on cable but the teams scheduled are from all over the country and not from Philadelphia. Cant figure out why an NBA game on my local RSN would be blacked out. West Virginia does not have an NBA team and niether does Pittsburgh.

Bob

 

[pjm8047]

So, even though they are scheduled and aired, I will always receive a blackout notice?

yes

 

[pjm8047]

I live in West Virginia and when ever FSN Pitsburgh has an NBA basketball game scheduled its always blacked out on my Dish. Now its not blacked out on cable but the teams scheduled are from all over the country and not from Philadelphia. Cant figure out why an NBA game on my local RSN would be blacked out. West Virginia does not have an NBA team and niether does Pittsburgh.

Bob

I didn't know fsn pittsburgh show basketball. The Sixers?

 

[Robert NTSC Archivist]

Random Games. he last one that was scheduled had the Charolette Bobcats playing some one.