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Angel Baseball Telecasts
Why are there still no telecasts of Angels baseball games? This has been going on for over a year now. When are you all going to get your act together and settle this?
Warren
Lakeside, CA
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That Don Guy
Guru
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325 Messages
10 years ago
Here is a link to a DirecTV page that lets you enter your ZIP code and it shows which teams you can access (without the games being blacked out) on which channels.
For 92040, you get the Padres (baseball), both the Lakers and Clippers (basketball), and both the Kings and Ducks (hockey). All other Major League Baseball, NBA, and NHL games on the regional sports networks will be blacked out. (I think the opponent's home market broadcasts of "your" teams are blacked out as well - for example, a Padres-Giants game that is on Fox Sports San Diego is probably blacked out on Comcast Sports Net Bay Area, just as it would be on CSNBA but not FSSD where I live.)
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JefferMC
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36.9K Messages
10 years ago
The people in LA get the two LA teams (Angels and Dodgers) if their TV provider/package carries the channels that contain them. They don't get the Padres.
MLB doesn't allow U-verse to provide you with the Angels (or the Dodgers), unless it's carried by a national network.
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baseballisback
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10 years ago
That's a good question and I'm not sure I know...but when the Cubs were on WGN SuperStation, I could watch Reds-Cubs games on either FS Ohio or WGN. (WGN always meant Cubs games for me...except on Sundays when they would show White Sox games... It was super-weird to see a Sunday afternoon game at Wrigley Field featuring the Cubs and the White Sox...it was a WS broadcast.) No matter what the case, CSN Chicago was blacked out, as it should be, since I'm out of that market.
Seeing as I get both FS Ohio and Sports Time Ohio, when the Indians play the Reds, I get those games on both channels, just as with the above situation.
Now if the Reds go to New York and play the Mets, that game would be blacked out on SNY, even if FS Ohio doesn't have the game, as was the case a long long time ago with a different provider. The local channel didn't have the game. The alternate channel that usually carried the overflow feeds didn't have the game, claiming some sort of out-of-market situation, IIRC. I really, really want to say it was a Reds-Braves game, back when TBS had the Braves contract...but it was that long ago.
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texasguy37
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1.3K Messages
10 years ago
So this all boils down to the fact that the OP lives inside the Padres's territory and outside of the territory where he could receive the Angeles games?
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dhascall
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10 years ago
Right @texasguy37 - we had this same discussion five or so years back. you set me straight on the rules for what regions and sports you'd receive. Like I was five years ago, I bet the OP simply doesn't know how these things work and I bet many are in the same boat.
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Tresclub
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10 years ago
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baseballisback
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8.2K Messages
10 years ago
Now...if you can't watch your local team or somesuch....what you CAN do is this:
Pay for MLB.TV
Get yourself an IP-spoofing program and activate it. Basically, you'll be telling MLB.TV that you're not in San Deigo or LA or wherever.
One of my local teams has an exclusive deal with a local cable company. I really want to watch those games. I signed up for the out-of-market package...but guess what? I can't get those games because I could ride a bicycle to the stadium...so I got me one them dere fancy-schmancy IP spoofers with the out-of-market package and now I can watch the games. Plus, I'd be able to watch the rest of the games as normal.
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baseballisback
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10 years ago
Sounds to me like another one of those: "Why can't I watch Royals games in Cincinnati? I get the Royals channel, but all the games are blacked out" situations.
The overseas people...ARGH! NO, you CANNOT watch "all the games" with the HD Premium Pack.
Hmmm... I should order the HD Premium Pack under those pretenses and keep calling back every month and be totally irate and see if they'd waive the previous month's $7 fee.
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