No fox sports Detroit through dish still. They were on MLB network for the opener but blacked out still for local. I was rather surprised by that, can anyone tell me why they would still be subject to blackout when you can’t actually go to the fking game? Preposterous!
Oh well, I’ve opt’d out of the season. Thx for keep the miggy thread going KC. I still check the box score but not motivated much beyond that.
It’s because fans of the home team still have to buy a minimum amount of cardboard cut outs to be fictitious spectators at the game in order for the game to not be blacked out.
OK, that’s not the reason at all.
Sometimes when the Fox broadcast network telecast a game nationally, all of the subscription games that happen at that time are blacked out.
It has to do with contractual/proprietary relationships amongst NewsCorp and Fox Broadcast Network, the various Fox Sports Network cable affiliates and national advertisers.
There is a really, really good chapter in a book titled “The Highwaymen” by Ken Auletta about how Rupert Murdoch and John Murtagh of Cox Cable aligned independent local cable affiliates across the country to develop the Fox Sports Network, which introduced to the world the spectacular LeeAnn Tweeden. I think you’d really like that book; it’s a compilation of media/communications industry articles Auletta wrote for The New Yorker.
During seasons when it looks like the Tigers are going to blow chunks – like this season-instead of buying the TV package I go out and make money instead.
I’ve been listening to the broadcast on SiriusXM on my handheld app but I don’t have a SiriusXM receiver in my car, and I need the audio on my app for the business I’m operating (the ESSENTIAL business I will patriotically add, thank you very much) so I gotta decide if I’m gonna spend the dough to get receiver installed.
I’m kind of inclined to do so, at least I’ll be making money listening in my car on the radio even if the Tigers do blow chunks.
