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Sunday, October 13th, 2019 8:31 PM

Local sports package

I would appreciate a direct answer to a specific question. For the past 2 weeks, unlike for years, the Washington Redskins postgame is blacked out on 642. This was never case, so it’s either an error or live game blackout rules have just been extended to postgame. Please no boilerplate response.

ACE - Expert

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14.1K Messages

5 years ago

This varies by team. Some teams blackout postgame, some don't. I guess the Redskins have changed their policy.

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Contributor

5 years ago

Thank you. An unwelcome reason is preferable to silence.

ACE - Expert

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22.9K Messages

5 years ago

If team is out-of-market, then if you have the Sports Pack (or are in Premier that has it), then it is unusual you are not getting the post game as that is normally a perk you get.

 

Haven't heard of anything changing that would legitimately black it out. So try refreshing your service authorizations www.directv.com/refresh in case it is just an error. If it continues I would contact either the RSN for the specific team or the NFL. Though RSN is mainly for MLB, NHL, and NBA so it is possible that they have relocated this to exclusively NFL Sunday Ticket or the local channel for those that are in-market.

 

Just some possibilities. Sorry I don't know what the actual answer is to this situation.

ACE - Expert

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14.1K Messages

5 years ago

No, blackouts on postgame programming are quite common. I see it mainly with hockey games but I know it happens sometimes on NFL.

Contributor

5 years ago

The odd thing is that the blackouts just began.

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