Way back on Monday, November 4, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Doug Fields d...@flids.net
wrote:
Hmmm…now that I read back over this thread, maybe we **are** talking
about two different things. I’m specifically talking about the NFL’s
blackout rule. I’m not aware of any rules affecting the broadcast of
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:
Way back on Monday, November 4, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Doug Fields
d...@flids.net wrote:
Hmmm…now that I read back over this thread, maybe we **are** talking
about two different things. I’m specifically talking about the NFL’s
Reminds me that a Dodger fan friend of mine who lives in Hawaii is blacked
out of all West Coast games (Pads, Dodgers, Angels, Giants, A's, and
Mariners). I assume MLB wants to encourage him to climb onto a plane and
fly six hours if he wants to see a Dodger broadcast.
--Dave Sikula
On
Reno was blacked out on 49ers and Raiders games.
Worst part was when there was a killer 49ers or Raiders game on the road
that you absolutely wanted to watch, Reno would get some other crappy game
because the networks are trying to pad the viewers for advertisers stuck
with the game no one wanted
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Doug Fields d...@flids.net wrote:
Nope…upon further research, it appears I was on the right track after all.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/01/us-usa-broadcasting-blackout-idUSBRE9A00ZW20131101
Here is another storty that makes the same point, in
Now wait just a second...Clyburn saying "the rules [are] no longer in the public interest" implies that they previously *were* considered in the public interest. In what way? I always understood the blackout rules were in effect to protect the NFL and the team owners, under the assumption that
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:33 PM, d...@flids.net wrote:
I'd like to hear even one example (even a far-fetched one) of how the
blackout rules have ever been in the public interest.
I'd say the initial idea when the rule was creating: that prohibiting
blacking out home games in their own market
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On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:33 PM, d...@flids.net wrote:
I'd like to hear even one example
[mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On
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Could we possibly be talking about two different things? There is no rule
*prohibiting
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Hmmm.now that I read back over this thread, maybe we *are* talking about two
different things. I'm specifically talking about the NFL's blackout
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Hmmm…now that I read back over this thread, maybe we **are** talking
about two different things
On Nov 4, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Joe Hass wrote:
The reasonable question to ask of the acting Chairwoman is whether the
Commission is interested in looking at the situation today with these other
blackout rules (probably the two most onerous being Fox's Saturday baseball
blackout rules...
This
Hmmm.now that I read back over this thread, maybe we *are* talking about
two
different things. I'm specifically talking about the NFL's blackout rule.
I'm not aware of any rules affecting the broadcast of the home games of
any
of the other major sports.
The other rule may be the one that
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:
The reasonable question to ask of the acting Chairwoman is whether the
Commission is interested in looking at the situation today with these other
blackout rules (probably the two most onerous being Fox's Saturday baseball
JW, to Doug Fields, in part:
Hmmm.now that I read back over this thread, maybe we *are* talking about
two
different things. I'm specifically talking about the NFL's blackout rule.
I'm not aware of any rules affecting the broadcast of the home games of
any
of the other major sports.
Joe Hass, to Doug Fields, in part:
The reasonable question to ask of the acting Chairwoman is whether the
Commission is interested in looking at the situation today with these other
blackout rules (probably the two most onerous being Fox's Saturday baseball
blackout rules and MLB's
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