No longer forced to watch local team feeds on CI package?
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This was apparently just a glitch. nothing has changed on the rules. Just like when the Red Wings were playing the Blues in the last week's time,I as usual was blacked out from FS DET had had to watch the game on FSMW( Im in Blues territory yet a Red Wings fan) So it sounds like you just got lucky
You will get both feeds, provided you are not located in the a teams designated area. For example, I am located in the Buffalo area and can only get the Buffalo (MSG-B) feed. However if Pittsburgh is playing Washington, I can get either teams feed.
I live down here in Monmouth County NJ & also get both feeds,home & away for NYI games.It's been that way since November.Funny thing,I'm closer to the Nassau Col. than MSG via the crow.I'd trade those extra feeds for FLYERS games on the NHLN with their larger blackouts in a mili second !!
Back when the versus mess happened the NHL made some effort to eliminate blackouts as much as possible, and I haven't run into an NHL blackout on Directv since. I don't watch them much, but I've seen several times I could tune an opposing team feed playing a local team, usually where I just hit the wrong feed in scoreguide.
I vaguely remember Bettman talking about blackouts on one of his hour weekly radio shows and said they were trying to get rid of them.
I vaguely remember Bettman talking about blackouts on one of his hour weekly radio shows and said they were trying to get rid of them.
I sorta remember this too, now that you mention it. This started happening around November like the Flyers fan who posted. It's great because some of the local feeds here, on MSG and FSNY have really deteriorated over the years.
I wonder if it's like that for all cable\sat providers now.
It's probably still up to the RSN channel too. I get FSN Detroit and I've seen opposite feeds, but again never really watched them much. I wonder if the NHL just asked RSNs to drop blackouts and some did and some didn't. No idea the logistics.
like my "local teams" are Buf & Pit so they always blackout Buf games and they sometime blackout Pit games, so it kinda odd to me
I wonder if D considers them out of market now even though I'm only 35 miles via the crow across the water to them ?
Tonight, I get both the Isles feed and Avs feed. I would normally be blacked out of the Avs feed on 681. MSG Isles has most definitely lifted the blackout rule. Unable to confirm MSG Devils as they were playing the Flyers again, who's feed we only receive maybe once or twice a year.
It happens in Minnesota too but Sunday we had a situation that happens every so often. The game in MN was being broadcast OTA(they do have an OTA affiliate for some games) so the Dallas feed was available. One time neither team(can't remember who they were playing) neither team had an RSN broadcast so the OTA feed from MN(game was in MN) was used.
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