FOX Sports Midwest

[DesMoinesCub]

Maybe this has been discussed in a game thread, but I don't feel like searching through one of those to find an answer.

 

Living in Central Iowa (Des Moines area) our local cable subscriber (Mediacom) has not picked up Comcast, and instead has given us the treat of Fox Sports Midwest which is the Cardinals network. I don't even want to get started on that...anyway, Tuesday night I sit down to watch the Cubs-Cardinals game and instead am treated to The World Series of Poker. Tonight, same thing. Is there something with Fox Sports rights to cover the Cubs because of Comcast? I tried calling Mediacom, and they told me it was a Fox Sports issue. I called Fox Sports, and got a recording about MLB Blackout rules that didn't help at all.

 

Anyone know why this is happening? It really sucks the one time I want to watch the Cardinals, I can't

[User Name]

FSMW added some 20 additional Cardinals games this year. Des Moines Mediacom didn't feel like paying for those, and there you go. By some incredible stroke of luck both game 1 and 3 of this Cubs/Cards series were among those 20.

 

It's incredibly painful that we don't have access to CSN here.

 

-- UN

[Banedon]

FSMW doesn't cover a whole lot of Cardinal games. I live about midway between Chicago and STL and we still don't get all the Cardinal games. We get some on FSMW, some on the local WB/CW/Whatever they call it now station...and any nationally broadcasts...but 2 of the 3 games against the Cubs were not available except for the CSN/WGN broadcast.